MQ04UBF100 Toshiba 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a USB interface. MQ04UBF100 Toshiba 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive.
All information about the Toshiba MQ04UBF100 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Toshiba MQ04UBF100 Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Toshiba
- Product Series: MQ04 Series
- Model Number: MQ04UBF100
- Form Factor: 2.5 Inch
- Storage Capacity: 1TB (1,000,000,000,000 bytes)
- Spindle Speed: 5400RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56ms
- Drive Interface: USB 3.0 (Native USB PCB Interface)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 500MB/s (USB 3.0 SuperSpeed)
- Cache: 128MB
- Average Seek Time: 12ms
- Number of Platters: 1
- Number of Heads: 2
- Width: 69.85mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.35mm (3.95 inch)
- Height: 7.0mm (0.28 inch)
- Weight: 92g (0.20 pounds)
- Product Type: Portable External / Native USB Mobile Hard Drive
Toshiba MQ04UBF100 Hard Drives:

- MQ04UBF100, AA21/JU002U, HDKCD22AZA31 T, Toshiba 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04UBF100, AB21/JU002U, HDKCD26AZA01 T, Toshiba 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04UBF100, AC21/JU002U, HDKCD30AZA31 T, Toshiba 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04UBF100, AA00/JU000U, HDKCD22AZA31 T, Toshiba 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04UBF100, AA21/JU002U, HDKCD26AZA31 T, Toshiba 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04UBF100, AA21/JU002U, HDKCD22AZA01 T, Toshiba 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04UBF100, AB21/JU002U, HDKCD26AZA31 T, Toshiba 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
- MQ04UBF100, AA11/JU001U, HDKCD22AZA31 T, Toshiba 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
Toshiba MQ04UBF100 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 MQ04UBF100 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba MQ04UBF100 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:
G0034A, G4330A, etc.