HD161GJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD161GJ/D Samsung 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Samsung HD161GJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung HD161GJ Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HD161GJ
• Disk Family: SpinPoint F1
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 1
• Number Of Heads: 1
• 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): 8 seconds
• Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
• Width: 101.5 mm (4.00 inch)
• Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
• Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
• Weight: 470 grams (1.04 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 HD161GJ Hard Drives:

• Samsung HD161GJ, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 160GB SATA 3.5″ HDD
• HD161GJ, HD161GJ/D, FW 1AC01117, Samsung 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HD161GJ, HD161GJ/B01, FW 1AC01118, Samsung 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HD161GJ, HD161GJ/D, FW 1AC01113, Samsung 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HD161GJ, HD161GJ/B, FW 1AC01118, Samsung 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HD161GJ, HD161GJ/D, FW 1AC01122, Samsung 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Samsung HD161GJ 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 HD161GJ Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HD161GJ 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:
BF41-00274A, BF41-00204B, etc.