MK3233GSG Toshiba 1.8″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320 GB and featuring a SATA interface. MK3233GSG TOSHIBA 1.8″ 320 GB Serial-ATA/300 MK-3233GSG 5400 RPM Hard Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MK3233GSG hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK3233GSG Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK3233GSG
- Disk Family: MK-3233GSG
- Form Factor: 1.8″
- Capacity: 320 GB (320 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: 16384 KB
- Average Seek Time: 15 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 3 ms
- Width: 54 mm (2.13 inch)
- Depth: 78.5 mm (3.07 inch)
- Height: 8 mm (0.31 inch)
- Weight: 62 grams (0.14 pounds)
- Required Power For Spinup: 600 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 1.1 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.4 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.12 W
- Manufacturer: Toshiba Corp., Storage Device Division
Toshiba MK3233GSG Hard Drives:
- MK3233GSG TOSHIBA 1.8″ 320 GB Serial-ATA/300 MK-3233GSG 5400 RPM Hard Drive.
Toshiba MK3233GSG 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 MK3233GSG Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK3233GSG hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as etc.