MQ01ABU050W Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500 GB and featuring a SATA interface. MQ01ABU050W TOSHIBA 2.5″ 500 GB Serial-ATA/600 MQ-01ABU050W 5400 RPM Hard Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MQ01ABU050W hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MQ01ABU050W Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MQ01ABU050W
- Disk Family: MQ-01ABU050W
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 22 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.72 inch)
- Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 7 mm (0.28 inch)
- Weight: 92 grams (0.20 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 MQ01ABU050W Hard Drives:
- MQ01ABU050W TOSHIBA 2.5″ 500 GB Serial-ATA/600 MQ-01ABU050W 5400 RPM Hard Drive.
Toshiba MQ01ABU050W 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 MQ01ABU050W Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MQ01ABU050W hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as etc.