MK2552GSX Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. MK2552GSX Toshiba 250GB 5400RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3GB/s 7-Pin 2.5-inch Laptop Hard Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MK2552GSX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK2552GSX Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK2552GSX
- Disk Family: MK-2552GSX
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 250 GB (250 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: 12 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 22 ms
- Width: 70 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 102 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 MK2552GSX Hard Drives:
- MK2552GSX, A0/LV010M, HDD2H02 B UK01 S, Toshiba 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK2552GSX, B0/LV011C, HDD2H02 F VL01 T, Toshiba 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK2552GSX, B0/LV011C, HDD2H02 F VL01 S, Toshiba 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK2552GSX, A0/LV010A, HDD2H02 C ZK01 T, Toshiba 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK2552GSX, A0/LV010A, HDD2H02 S ZK01 S, Toshiba 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK2552GSX, A0/LV010A, HDD2H02 S ZK01 T, Toshiba 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK2552GSX, A0/LV010M, HDD2H02 B UK01 T, Toshiba 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK2552GSX, LV011D, HDD2H02 D UL02 T, Toshiba 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MK2552GSX, A0/LV010J, HDD2H02 E UK01 S, Toshiba 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- Toshiba MK2552GSX, 5400RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 250GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
Toshiba MK2552GSX 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 MK2552GSX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK2552GSX 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:
G002217A, etc.