MK1637GSX Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. MK1637GSX Toshiba 160GB 5400RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3GB/s 7-Pin 2.5-inch Laptop Hard Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MK1637GSX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK1637GSX Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK1637GSX
- Disk Family: MK-1637GSX
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- 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
- 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 MK1637GSX Hard Drives:
- MK1637GSX, A0/DL030M, HDD2D60 B ZL01 T, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, C0/DL032C, HDD2D60 F ZL01 T, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, A0/DL030M, HDD2D60 B ZL01 S, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, C0/DL032C, HDD2D60 F ZL01 S, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, A0/DL021A, HDD2D60 S ZK01 S, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, DL040D, HDD2D60 D ZM01 T, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, A0/DL030G, HDD2D60 S ZL01 S, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, B0/DL050J, HDD2D60 E ZL02 T, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, B0/DL050J, HDD2D60 E ZL02 S, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, A0/DL020M, HDD2D60 B ZK01 S, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, A0/DL021A, HDD2D60 C ZK01 S, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, B0/DL050J, HDD2D60 E ZL02, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, A0/DL030G, HDD2D60 S ZL01 T, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK1637GSX, A0/DL030G, HDD2D60 C ZL01 S, Toshiba 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MK1637GSX 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 MK1637GSX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK1637GSX 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:
G5B001851000-A, etc.