MK2016GAP Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20GB and featuring a IDE interface. MK2016GAP Toshiba MK2016GAP 20 GB 2.5 Plug-in Module Hard Drive 1 Pack IDE Ultra ATA/66 (ATA-5) 4200 rpm 1 MB Buffer.
All information about the Toshiba MK2016GAP hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK2016GAP Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK2016GAP
- Disk Family: MK-2016GAP
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 20 GB (20 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/66
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 66.6 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 1024 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 13 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 3 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 24 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 99 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 MK2016GAP Hard Drives:
- MK2016GAP, E0/U0.32A, HDD2154 B ZE01 T, Toshiba 20GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK2016GAP, E0/U0.31A, HDD2154 P ZE01 T, Toshiba 20GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK2016GAP, C0/U0.30A, HDD2154 N ZE01 T, Toshiba 20GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK2016GAP, D0/U0.31A, HDD2154 F ZE01 T, Toshiba 20GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MK2016GAP 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 MK2016GAP Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK2016GAP 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:
B36020412011-A, etc.