HD080HJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD080HJ Samsung 80GB 7200RPM SATA II 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile Hard Drive.

All information about the Samsung HD080HJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung HD080HJ Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HD080HJ
  • Disk Family: SpinPoint P80SD
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 80 GB (80 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 2
  • Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 0.8 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 18 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 146.05 mm (5.75 inch)
  • Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
  • Weight: 648 grams (1.43 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.7 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 2250 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 9.5 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 7.7 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.90 W
  • Manufacturer: Samsung

Samsung HD080HJ Hard Drives:

HD080HJ Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Samsung HD080HJ/P, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 80GB SATA 3.5″ HDD
  • HD080HJ, HD080HJ/P, FW ZH100-34, P/V FS, Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HD080HJ, HD080HJ/P, FW ZH100-34, P80PLUS, Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HD080HJ, HD080HJ/P, FW 100-51, P/V SFN, Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HD080HJ, HD080HJ/B, FW 100-51, P/V SFN, Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HD080HJ, HD080HJ/P, FW 100-46, SFN, Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HD080HJ, HD080HJ/P, FW 100-43, P/V SFN, Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HD080HJ, HD080HJ/D, FW ZH100-34, P80PLUS, Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HD80HJ/P, HD080HJ/P, FW 100-51, P/V SFN, Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HD080HJ, HD080HJ, FW 100-33, P/V MS, Samsung 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Samsung HD080HJ Failure Symptoms:

  • Electrical Failure Symptoms:
    Drive is powered, but shows no sign of function;
    Disk knocking as the motor fails to spin;
    Clicking sound as the heads search or initialize;
  • Mechanical Failure Symptoms:
    Clicking, grinding sounds;
    Completely quiet due to ” motor freeze”;
    “music” tone as the disk is powered up;
  • Logical Failure Examples:
    Accidental deletion, accidental format, file corruption, software bugs, file system corruption, viruses and malware, and many, many more.
  • Firmware Failure Symptoms:
    drive powers up, but is not recognised by the computer;
    Drive powers up, but is recognised wrongly, sometimes with nonsensical characters;
    Drive freezes during booting up;
  • Bad Platter Area Symptoms:
    Hard disk still accessible but appear to “hang” or “sluggish”;
    Constant Cyclic Redundancy (CRC) errors;
    Unable to access folders or files which could be seen;
  • Complex Failure Model

Samsung HD080HJ Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HD080HJ Hard Disk Drive experience is burnt circuit board(PCB). So if you will need to match a replacement PCB, it is important that you note the “Board Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number“.

Multiple PCB Number revisions:
BF41-00108A, BF41-00095A, etc.