MK2017GAP Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20GB and featuring a IDE interface. MK2017GAP Toshiba MK2017GAP 20 GB 2.5 Plug-in Module Hard Drive IDE Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) 4200 rpm 2 MB Buffer.
All information about the Toshiba MK2017GAP hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK2017GAP Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK2017GAP
- Disk Family: MK-2017GAP
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 20 GB (20 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 3
- Rotational Speed: 4200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 14.29 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 7.14 ms
- 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: 94 grams (0.21 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 MK2017GAP Hard Drives:
- MK2017GAP, A0/A5.11H, HDD2158 D ZF01 T, Toshiba 20GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK2017GAP, A0/A5.04H, HDD2158 F ZF01 T, Toshiba 20GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
- Toshiba MK2017GAP, 4200RPM, 1.0Gp/s, 20GB IDE 2.5″ HDD
- MK2017GAP, A0/A5.04H, HDD2158 L ZF01 T, Toshiba 20GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MK2017GAP 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 MK2017GAP Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK2017GAP 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:
B36021752017-B, etc.