MK8040GSX Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. MK8040GSX Toshiba 80GB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MK8040GSX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MK8040GSX Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Toshiba
- Manufacturer Website: us.toshiba.com
- Manufacturer Part No: MK8040GSX
- Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
- Storage Capacity: 80GB
- Spindle Speed: 5400RPM
- Drive Interface: SATA
- Form Factor: 2.5Inch
- Cache: 8MB
Toshiba MK8040GSX Hard Drives:
- MK8040GSX, A0/AH001C, HDD2D31 F ZQ01 S, Toshiba 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MK8040GSX 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 MK8040GSX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MK8040GSX 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:
G5B001590000-A, etc.