MQ01UBD050 Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a USB interface. Toshiba MQ01UBD050 8.45GB 2.5Inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Toshiba MQ01UBD050 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Toshiba MQ01UBD050 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MQ01UBD050
  • Disk Family: MQ-01UBD050
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: USB 3.0
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 400 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • 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 MQ01UBD050 Hard Drives:

MQ01UBD050 Toshiba 500GB USB 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • MQ01UBD050, AB00/AX101U, HDKBD36AZA31 T, Toshiba 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01UBD050, AA00/AX001U, HDKBD26AZA01 S, Toshiba 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01UBD050, AA00/AX001U, HDKBD26AZA31 T, Toshiba 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • MQ01UBD050, AA00/AX001U, HDKBD26AZA01 T, Toshiba 500GB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive

Toshiba MQ01UBD050 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 MQ01UBD050 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MQ01UBD050 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:
G3448A, G003250A, etc.