MK5065GSX Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. MK5065GSX Toshiba 500GB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Toshiba MK5065GSX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Toshiba MK5065GSX Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK5065GSX
  • Disk Family: MK-5065GSX
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 500 GB (500 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
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 102 grams (0.22 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 900 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 1.85 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 0.75 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.18 W
  • Manufacturer: Toshiba Corp., Storage Device Division

Toshiba MK5065GSX Hard Drives:

MK5065GSX Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • MK5065GSX, A0/GJ002C, HDD2H82 F VL01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSXF, D0/GP005B, HDD2J62 P TV01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSXF, E0/GP006B, HDD2J62 P TV02 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSX, C0/GJ003M, HDD2H82 B UL02 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSXF, C0/GV108B, HDD2L13 P TN01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSXF, A0/GV201B, HDD2L13 P TM01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSX, A0/GJ002C, HDD2H82 F VL01 B, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • Toshiba MK5065GSXN, 5400RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 500GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
  • MK5065GSX, GJ002D, HDD2H82 D UL02 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSX, A0/GJ002H, HDD2H82 S ZL01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSXN, A0/GH101M, HDD2J12 B UL01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSXN, A0/GH101M, HDD2J12 B UL01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSXN, B0/GH012H, HDD2J12 S QL01 B, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSX, A0/GJ205E, HDD2L33 M UL01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSXN, B0/GH012H, HDD2J12 S QL01 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSX, A0/GJ003A, HDD2H82 C SL01 B, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSX, C0/GJ003M, HDD2H82 B UL02 B, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSXN, B0/GB001H, HDD2J12 S QG01 B, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSXN, B0/GH012H, HDD2J12 S QL01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSX, A0/GJ002H, HDD2H82 S ZL01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSX, GJ002D, HDD2H82 D UL02 B, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSX, C0/GJ003M, HDD2H82 B UL02 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSX, A0/GJ003A, HDD2H82 A SL01 B, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSX, A0/GJ002C, HDD2H82 F VL01 S, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MK5065GSX, C0/GJ005E, HDD2H82 M UL03 T, Toshiba 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Toshiba MK5065GSX 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 MK5065GSX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK5065GSX 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:
G002706A, G002641A, G002825A, etc.