HS12RJF Samsung 1.8″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120 GB and featuring a SATA interface. HS12RJF SAMSUNG 1.8″ 120 GB Serial-ATA/300 SpinPoint N3C 3600 RPM Hard Drive.

All information about the Samsung HS12RJF hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung HS12RJF Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HS12RJF
  • Disk Family: SpinPoint N3C
  • Form Factor: 1.8″
  • Capacity: 120 GB (120 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 4
  • Rotational Speed: 3600 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 16.67 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 8.33 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 15 ms
  • Width: 54 mm (2.13 inch)
  • Depth: 78.5 mm (3.07 inch)
  • Height: 8 mm (0.31 inch)
  • Weight: 62 grams (0.14 pounds)
  • Manufacturer: Samsung

Samsung HS12RJF Hard Drives:

  • HS12RJF SAMSUNG 1.8″ 120 GB Serial-ATA/300 SpinPoint N3C 3600 RPM Hard Drive.

Samsung HS12RJF 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 HS12RJF Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HS12RJF hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as etc.