MG03SCA300 Toshiba 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 3TB and featuring a SAS interface. MG03SCA300 Toshiba 3TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache 3.5-inch SAS 6GB/s Hard Drive.

All information about the Toshiba MG03SCA300 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Toshiba MG03SCA300 Technical Details:

  • Manufacturer: Toshiba
  • Manufacturer Website: us.toshiba.com
  • Manufacturer Part No: MG03SCA300
  • Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
  • Storage Capacity: 3TB
  • Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
  • Drive Interface: SAS 6.0Gbps
  • Form Factor: 3.5Inch
  • Cache: 64MB

Toshiba MG03SCA300 Hard Drives:

MG03SCA300 Toshiba 3TB SAS 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • MG03SCA300, 5702, HDEPC04JAA51, Toshiba 3TB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • MG03SCA300, 0108, HDEPC04GEA51, Toshiba 3TB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive

Toshiba MG03SCA300 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 MG03SCA300 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MG03SCA300 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:
G003222A, etc.