MK3261GSY Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. MK3261GSY Toshiba 320GB 16MB Cache 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Toshiba MK3261GSY hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Toshiba MK3261GSY Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK3261GSY
  • Disk Family: MK-3261GSY
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 320 GB (320 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 2
  • Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 12 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 98 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 MK3261GSY Hard Drives:

MK3261GSY Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • MK3261GSYN, A0/MH000C, HDD2F23 F VF01 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, MH000D, HDD2F23 D UL01 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, A0/MH001M, HDD2F23 B UL01 S, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, A0/MH000C, HDD2F23 F VL01 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, A0/MH000C, HDD2F23 F VL01 B, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSY, A0/MC102E, HDD2F53 M UL01 B, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, A0/MH000K, HDD2F23 U TL01 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, MH000D, HDD2F23 D UF01 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, A0/MH000A, HDD2F23 C SL01 B, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, A0/MH000C, HDD2F23 F VF01 S, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, MH000D, HDD2F23 D UF01 S, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, A0/MH001M, HDD2F23 B UL01 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, MH000D, HDD2F23 D UL01 B, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSY, MC000D, HDD2E83 D UL01 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSY, A0/MC002E, HDD2E83 M UL02 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, A0/MH000C, HDD2F23 F VL01 S, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSY, MC001D, HDD2E83 D UL02 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYFN, MD000D, HDD2F63 D UL01 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, A0/MH000K, HDD2F3 U TL01 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSY, A0/MC102E, HDD2F53 M UL01 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYG, C0/MG002W, HDD2F43 B UL01 T, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK3261GSYN, A0/MH000C, HDD2E23 F VL01 S, Toshiba 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Toshiba MK3261GSY 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 MK3261GSY Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK3261GSY 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:
G002822A, G002872A, etc.