MD05ACA800 Toshiba 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 8TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Toshiba MD05ACA800 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MD05ACA800 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Toshiba MD05ACA800
- Disk Family: MD05ACA Series
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 8000 GB (8 000 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 6
- Number Of Heads: 12
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s (SATA III)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600.0 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 128 MB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4.0 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.8 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 770 grams (1.70 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.1 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.1 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.6 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 2.0A)
- Power Required (Seek): 11.3 W
- Power Required (Idle): 6.2 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.0 W
- Manufacturer: Toshiba Corporation
Toshiba MD05ACA800 Hard Drives:
- MD05ACA800, GX0B, HDETT10GEA51, Toshiba 8TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MD05ACA800 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 MD05ACA800 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MD05ACA800 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:
G4013A, etc.