MK1629GSG Toshiba 1.8″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160 GB and featuring a SATA interface. MK1629GSG TOSHIBA 1.8″ 160 GB Serial-ATA/300 MK-1629GSG 5400 RPM Hard Drive.

All information about the Toshiba MK1629GSG hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Toshiba MK1629GSG Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK1629GSG
  • Disk Family: MK-1629GSG
  • Form Factor: 1.8″
  • Capacity: 160 GB (160 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/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 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: 78.5 mm (3.07 inch)
  • Height: 8 mm (0.31 inch)
  • Weight: 62 grams (0.14 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 MK1629GSG Hard Drives:

ToshibaMK1629GSG160 GBSATA1.8

  • MK1629GSG TOSHIBA 1.8″ 160 GB Serial-ATA/300 MK-1629GSG 5400 RPM Hard Drive.

Toshiba MK1629GSG 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 MK1629GSG Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK1629GSG 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.