MK6028GAL Toshiba 1.8″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a ZIF interface. MK6028GAL Toshiba 60GB 4200RPM ATA-100 2MB Cache 1.8-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Toshiba MK6028GAL hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Toshiba MK6028GAL Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MK6028GAL
  • Disk Family: MK-6028GAL
  • Form Factor: 1.8″
  • Capacity: 60 GB (60 x 1 000 000 000 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
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 2048 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 15 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 3 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 26 ms
  • Width: 54 mm (2.13 inch)
  • Depth: 71 mm (2.80 inch)
  • Height: 5 mm (0.20 inch)
  • Weight: 48 grams (0.11 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 MK6028GAL Hard Drives:

MK6028GAL Toshiba 60GB ZIF 1.8 Inch Hard Drive

  • MK6028GAL, HDD1807 A ZK01, Toshiba 60GB ZIF 1.8 Hard Drive

Toshiba MK6028GAL 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 MK6028GAL Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK6028GAL 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:
G-2170A, etc.