HM080GC Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. HM080GC Samsung Spinpoint M5 HM080GC 80 GB 2.5 Plug-in Module Hard Drive 1 Pack IDE Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) 5400 rpm 8 MB Buffer.

All information about the Samsung HM080GC hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung HM080GC Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HM080GC
  • Disk Family: SpinPoint M5S
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 80 GB (80 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 1
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 3.5 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 12 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 22 ms
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.1 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 9.4 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 100 grams (0.22 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1000 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 2.4 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 0.85 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.25 W
  • Manufacturer: Samsung

Samsung HM080GC Hard Drives:

HM080GC Samsung 80GB IDE 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • HM080GC, HM080GC, FW LP100-10, M5_P1, Samsung 80GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive

Samsung HM080GC 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 HM080GC Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HM080GC 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:
BF41-00170A, etc.