MK2028GAC Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20GB and featuring an IDE interface.
All information about the Toshiba MK2028GAC hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK2028GAC Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Toshiba MK2028GAC
- Disk Family: Automotive & Heavy Duty Series
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 20 GB (20 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 4200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 14.29 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 7.14 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 2048 KB (2 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4.5 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 12.0 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms
- Width: 69.8 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.0 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 105 grams (0.23 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.3 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.3 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 5V (Peak 1.0A)
- Power Required (Seek): 2.1 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.85 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.15 W
- Manufacturer: Toshiba Corporation
Toshiba MK2028GAC Hard Drives:
- MK2028GAC, A0/NB001A, HDD2197 A ZE01 T, Toshiba 20GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MK2028GAC 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 MK2028GAC Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK2028GAC 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:
G5B000755000-A1, etc.