MK1002MAV Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1GB and featuring an IDE interface.
All information about the Toshiba MK1002MAV hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK1002MAV Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Toshiba MK1002MAV
- Disk Family: Slimline Series
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 1.0 GB (1 080 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 4200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 14.29 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 7.14 ms
- Disk Interface: Fast ATA-2 (IDE / PATA)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 16.6 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 128 KB (0.125 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 3.5 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 13.0 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 3.0 ms
- Width: 70.0 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100.0 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 8.5 mm (0.33 inch)
- Weight: 110 grams (0.24 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.2 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 5V (Peak 0.8A)
- Power Required (Seek): 2.2 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.6 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.1 W
- Manufacturer: Toshiba Corporation
Toshiba MK1002MAV Hard Drives:

- MK1002MAV, HDD2731 C ZE01, Toshiba 1GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MK1002MAV 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 MK1002MAV Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK1002MAV 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:
B36013932014-A, etc.