MQ01ABC150 Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.5TB and featuring a SATA interface. MQ01ABC150 Toshiba 1.5TB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MQ01ABC150 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MQ01ABC150 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MQ01ABC150
- Disk Family: MQ-01ABC150
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 1500 GB (1500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 3
- Number Of Heads: 6
- 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
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 12.5 mm (0.49 inch)
- Weight: 148 grams (0.33 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 MQ01ABC150 Hard Drives:
- MQ01ABC150, AA00/AQ001U, HDKAB04AZA01 T, Toshiba 1.5TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MQ01ABC150 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 MQ01ABC150 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MQ01ABC150 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:
G003138A, etc.