HS161JB Samsung 1.8″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160 GB and featuring a IDE interface. HS161JB SAMSUNG 1.8″ 160 GB Ultra-ATA/100 SpinPoint N2 3600 RPM Hard Drive.
All information about the Samsung HS161JB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Samsung HS161JB Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HS161JB
- Disk Family: SpinPoint N2
- Form Factor: 1.8″
- Capacity: 160 GB (160 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: Ultra-ATA/100
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 2048 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 2 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 13 ms
- Width: 54 mm (2.13 inch)
- Depth: 71 mm (2.80 inch)
- Height: 8 mm (0.31 inch)
- Weight: 59 grams (0.13 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Samsung
Samsung HS161JB Hard Drives:
- HS161JB SAMSUNG 1.8″ 160 GB Ultra-ATA/100 SpinPoint N2 3600 RPM Hard Drive.
Samsung HS161JB 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 HS161JB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HS161JB 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.