SV1203E Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120 GB and featuring a IDE interface. SV1203E SAMSUNG 3.5″ 120 GB Ultra-ATA/100 SpinPoint V80CE 5400 RPM Hard Drive.

All information about the Samsung SV1203E hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung SV1203E Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG SV1203E
  • Disk Family: SpinPoint V80CE
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 120 GB (120 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 3
  • 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: 2048 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 12 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 0.8 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 23 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (3.98 inch)
  • Depth: 146.05 mm (5.75 inch)
  • Height: 25.4 mm (0.98 inch)
  • Weight: 635 grams (1.40 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 SV1203E Hard Drives:

  • SV1203E SAMSUNG 3.5″ 120 GB Ultra-ATA/100 SpinPoint V80CE 5400 RPM Hard Drive.

Samsung SV1203E 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 SV1203E Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung SV1203E 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.