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, 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.