DT01ACA300 Toshiba 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 3TB and featuring a SATA interface. DT01ACA300 Toshiba 3TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache 3.5-inch SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive.

All information about the Toshiba DT01ACA300 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Toshiba DT01ACA300 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA DT01ACA300
  • Disk Family: DT01ACA
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 3 TB (3 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 3
  • Number Of Heads: 6
  • Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 65536 KB
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 0.5 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 680 grams (1.50 pounds)
  • Manufacturer: Toshiba Corp., Storage Device Division

Toshiba DT01ACA300 Hard Drives:

DT01ACA300 Toshiba 3TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • DT01ACA300, AA00/BB0, HDKPC08A0A01 S, Toshiba 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • DT01ACA300, AB00/BB0, HDKPC08A1A01 S, Toshiba 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Toshiba DT01ACA300 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

Toshiba DT01ACA300 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba DT01ACA300 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:
0A90380, etc.