MK1234GSX Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a SATA interface. MK1234GSX Toshiba MK1234GSX 120 GB 2.5 Internal Hard Drive SATA/150 5400 rpm 8 MB Buffer.
All information about the Toshiba MK1234GSX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK1234GSX Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK1234GSX
- Disk Family: MK-1234GSX
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 120 GB (120 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/150
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 150 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 3.5 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 12 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 22 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 101 grams (0.22 pounds)
- Required Power For Spinup: 940 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 2.7 W
- Power Required (Idle): 1.0 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.25 W
- Manufacturer: Toshiba Corp., Storage Device Division
Toshiba MK1234GSX Hard Drives:
- Toshiba MK1234GSX, 5400RPM, 1.5Gp/s, 120GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
- MK1234GSX, C0/AH008B, HDD2D31 Q ZK01 T, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001M, HDD2D31 V ZK01 S, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH002E, HDD2D31 M ZK02 T, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001A, HDD2D31 B ZK01 T, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001A, HDD2D31 S ZK01 S, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001H, HDD2D31 F ZL02 S, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, AH001D, HDD2D31 D ZK01 T, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001H, HDD2D31 F ZL03 S, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001A, HDD2D31 B ZK01 S, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001C, HDD2D31 F ZK01 T, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001C, HDD2D31 F ZK01 S, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH002E, HDD2D31 M ZK01 S, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, C0/AH008B, HDD2D31 Q ZK01 S, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH002E, HDD2D31 M ZK02 S, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001A, HDD2D31 S ZK01, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH005B, HDD2D31 H ZK01 S, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001H, HDD2D31 F ZL01 S, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, AH001D, HDD2D31 D ZK02 T, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH005B, HDD2D31 H ZK01 T, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001H, HDD2D31 F ZL03 T, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001J, HDD2D31 R ZK01 T, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH002E, HDD2H31 M ZK02 S, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1234GSX, A0/AH001A, HDD2D31 S ZK01 T, Toshiba 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MK1234GSX 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 MK1234GSX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK1234GSX 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:
G5B001590000-A, etc.