Toshiba Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery and Reliability

Toshiba has truly led the world in the innovation of smaller and smaller hard disk drives. The electronics giant is a notable manufacturer of 2.5" notebook hard disks and its storage technology is now synonymous with the groundbreaking capacities offered by Apple's iPods. In fact Toshiba's 100GB hard drive, the world's smallest, is now finding its way into the latest iPods. Toshiba has also managed to shrink its microdrive to an astonishing 0.85" in diameter, which is now considered to be as small as a massed produced HDD will ever get.

Toshiba Reliability and Issues to Beware

Despite the rapid advancement of Toshiba's drive development, quality engineering seems to be holding up its reputation for reliability. However, Toshiba hard drives are susceptible to common problems associated with all hard disks such as bad sectors as well as mechanical, electrical and logical failure. It's a shame also that despite Toshiba's advances in reliability their drives still only come with a one year warranty.

Specific Problems to Watch Out for With Toshiba Hard Drives

There is no definable warning period before a Toshiba drive fails. You may notice deterioration in performance before the hard disk crashes, but this could range from a few days to just seconds before complete failure. One distinctive Toshiba trait is a distinctive whining sound which can be heard just before the drive stops working. It is also common to hear the sound of the motor attempt to spin up, fail, and then retry repeatedly. Toshiba drives can also suffer surface damage caused by the heads being exposed to excessive heat; the heads will begin to adhere to the disk's surface leading to scratches and the manifestation of local bad-blocks.

With Toshiba's MKGAS, or MKGAX models a common reason for failure is the hard drive bearings seizing when the spindle motor and bearings get stuck. Once the motor seizes the heads make contact with the platters causing the drive to behave as if it's not spinning. This is one of those situations where you should shut down the unit without delay and send it to us for diagnosis. The only way to save your data in this situation is for us to place the drive in a clean room and perform invasive data recovery action.

Typical Symptoms of Impending Data Loss from Toshiba Hard Disks

Deterioration of performance
Sudden hard disk failure
The drive is inaccessible although still functioning
The BIOS recognizes the drive but a fail error appears
A distinctive whining sound comes from the drive
The motor starts to spin but fails and then retries repeatedly

Although Toshiba generally demonstrates good reliability, when a problem does occur it can prove disastrous for data that is held on the Hard Drive. Should you experience any of the problems mentioned above, or even f your drive is behaving aberrantly, contact us at once before you risk complete data loss.

We support data recovery on all models of Toshiba Hard Disk Drives as follows:

MODELS

IDE / 3.5" PC DRIVE
DKU3129AU0001 DKU3552WU0001X DKU3554WU0001 DKU3554WU0001X DKU3901AU0001 DKU3901U0001 HDD1232 HDD1232CZ HDD1232CZP00002 HDD1232CZP40002 HDD2130REFURB HDD2149	MK0802MAV MK1001MAV MK1122FC MK1422FCV MK1608MAT MK1624FCV MK1702MAN MK1722FCV MK2001MPL MK2024FC MK2105MAT MK2326FCH	MK234CH1 MK234FC MK234FC1 MK234FCR MK2528FC MK3019GAX MK4021GAS P000229560 PA3116U1H30 PA3204U1H60 TNS240020.0
MOBILE / LAPTOP / NOTEBOOK / 2.5" DRIVE
DKU3906A-U0002 DKU3907A-U0002 P000261980 P000279860 PA3029U1H18 PA3133U1H40 HDD2152 HDD2157 HDD2159 HDD2164 HDD2168 HDD2170 HDD2171 HDD2181 HDD2182 HDD2183 HDD2184 HDD2184e HDD2187 HDD2188 HDD2190 HDD2914 HDD2932 MK1002MAV MK1003MAV MK1011GAV MK1016GAP MK1016GAPL MK1017GAP MK1031GAS MK1214GAP MK1214GAV MK1233GAS MK1234GAX MK1301MAV MK1302MAN MK1401MAV MK1403MAV	MK1403MAV14 MK1403MAN MK1516GAP MK1517GAP MK1522FC MK1522FCV MK1724FC MK1724FCV MK1814GA MK1814GAV MK1824FC MK1824FCV MK1924FC MK1924FCV MK1924FBV MK1926FCV MK2016GAP MK2017GAP MK2018GAP MK2018GAS MK2023GAS MK2101MAN MK2103MAV MK2104MAV MK2105MAV MK2109MAV MK2109MAT MK2110MAT MK2124FC MK2224FC MK2326FB MK2428FC MK2526FC MK2628FC MK2720FC MK2720MAN MK3000MAN MK3003MAN	MK3017GAP MK3017GAS MK3018GAP MK3018GAS MK3021GAS MK3029GAC MK3029GACE MK3205MAV MK3209MAT MK3211MAT MK3212MAT MK4006MAV MK4018GAP MK4018GAS MK4019GAX MK4025GAS MK4026GAX MK422FCV MK4306MAN MK4309MAT MK4310MAT MK4313MAT MK5002MPL MK6014MAPL MK6014MAP MK6015MAP MK6017MAP MK6021GAS MK6022GAX MK6025GAS MK6026GAX MK6409MAV MK6411MAT MK6412MAT MK6414MAT MK8025GAS MK8026GAX MK8113MAT
SCSI / SERVER / RAID / NAS / SAN
DKU3114A-U0001 DKU3114A-U0001X DKU3116-AU0001X DKU3118A-U0001 DKU3118A-U0001X DKU3126A-U0001 DKU3504P DKU3507A-U0001 DKU3508A-U0001X DKU3511W DKU3513A-U0001X DKU3516A-U0001 DKU3516A-U0001X DKU3522A-U0001 DKU3523A-U0001 DKU3524A-U0001 DKU3525A-U0001X DKU3526A-U0001	DKU3526W DKU3531A-U0001X DKU3532A-U0001 DKU3532A-U0001X DKU3533A-U0001X DKU3534A-U0001 DKU3534A-U0001X DKU3537A-U0001 DKU3581A-U0001 DKU3582A-U0001 DKU3611W-U0001 DKU3612W-U0001 DKU3612W-U0001X DKU3613W-U0001X DKU3902A-U0001 MK153FB MK154FB MK156FB	MK1824FBV MK1926FBV MK2224FB MK232FB MK233FB MK234FB MK234FB-1 MK2426FB MK2428FB MK250F MK250FB MK355FB MK358FB MK438FB MK537FB MK538FB SAN3911A-U0001 SAN3912A-U0001
EIDE
07N4138 07N6017 07N6718 07N9481	HDD2144 HDD2619 HDD2731 HDD2910	IC25T048ATDA05 MK1016GAP MK1302MAN
FHT
MK353FA
FHT ESDI
MK153FA MK154FA	MK156FA MK250FA	MK355FA MK358FA
FHT MFM ST506
MK53FA MK53FB	MK54FA MK56FA	MK56FB
FHT RLL ST506
MK56FB	MK53FA
HHT MFM ST506
MK134FA	MK072PC
HHT RLL ST506
MK72PCR
SMD
MK186FA MK186FB	MK284FC MK286FC	MK288FC MK388FA
ST-506
MK54FA	MK56FA
ST-506 RLL
MK54FB	MK56FB
PATA
MK4032GAX MK6032GAX	MK6034GAX	MK8032GAX
SATA
MK1032GSX MK1234GSX MK4032GSX	MK6032GSX	MK8032GSX

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