MQ03ABB200 Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. MQ03ABB200 Toshiba 2TB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s 64MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MQ03ABB200 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MQ03ABB200 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: TOSHIBA MQ03ABB200
- Disk Family: MQ-03ABB200
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 2 TB (2 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
- 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: 16384 KB
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 15 mm (0.59 inch)
- Weight: 180 grams (0.40 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 MQ03ABB200 Hard Drives:
- MQ03ABB200, AA00/JP050U, HDKFB08AZA01 T, Toshiba 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ03ABB200, AB00/JP050V, HDKFB08MAA01 T, Toshiba 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MQ03ABB200 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 MQ03ABB200 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MQ03ABB200 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:
G3918A, etc.