MBF2600RC Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 600GB and featuring a SAS interface.
All information about the Toshiba MBF2600RC hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MBF2600RC Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Toshiba MBF2600RC
- Disk Family: MBF Enterprise Series
- Form Factor: 2.5″ (Enterprise 15mm)
- Capacity: 600 GB (600 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 3
- Number Of Heads: 6
- Rotational Speed: 10000 RPM
- Rotation Time: 6.00 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 3.00 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-2 6Gbps)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB (16 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 15.0 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 4.0 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.2 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.45 mm (3.95 inch)
- Height: 15.0 mm (0.59 inch)
- Weight: 220 grams (0.49 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.0 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.4 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 1.2A)
- Power Required (Seek): 5.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 3.4 W
- Power Required (Standby): 2.1 W
- Manufacturer: Toshiba Storage Products Division
Toshiba MBF2600RC Hard Drives:
- MBF2600RC, PN CA07173-B400, Toshiba 600GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MBF2600RC, PN CA07173-B400, Toshiba 6GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MBF2600RC, PN CA07173-B41000CS, Toshiba 600GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MBF2600RC 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 MBF2600RC Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MBF2600RC 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:
CA26359-B21206BA, G-3083A, etc.