MK1214GAH Toshiba 1.8″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120 GB and featuring a IDE interface. MK1214GAH TOSHIBA 1.8″ 120 GB Ultra-ATA/100 MK-1214GAH 4200 RPM Hard Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MK1214GAH hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK1214GAH Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK1214GAH
- Disk Family: MK-1214GAH
- Form Factor: 1.8″
- Capacity: 120 GB (120 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 4200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 14.29 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 7.14 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Average Seek Time: 15 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 3 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 26 ms
- Width: 54 mm (2.13 inch)
- Depth: 71 mm (2.80 inch)
- Height: 8 mm (0.31 inch)
- Weight: 59 grams (0.13 pounds)
- Required Power For Spinup: 600 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 1.1 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.4 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.12 W
- Manufacturer: Toshiba Corp., Storage Device Division
Toshiba MK1214GAH Hard Drives:
- MK1214GAH TOSHIBA 1.8″ 120 GB Ultra-ATA/100 MK-1214GAH 4200 RPM Hard Drive.
Toshiba MK1214GAH 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 MK1214GAH Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK1214GAH hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as etc.