HUS724030ALA640 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 3TB and featuring a SATA interface. HUS724030ALA640 Hitachi Ultrastar 7K4000 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.
All information about the Hitachi HUS724030ALA640 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi HUS724030ALA640 Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Hitachi
Hitachi HUS724030ALA640 Hard Drives:
- HUS724030ALA640, PN 0F14689, MLC MPKA70, Hitachi 3TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Hitachi HUS724030ALA640 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
Hitachi HUS724030ALA640 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HUS724030ALA640 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 “Main Controller IC Number (3.5″)” or “White Label Number (2.5″)” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number“.
Multiple Main Controller IC Number revisions:
LSI 6045, etc.
Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0J24459 BA4786A, 0J24459 BA4786B, etc.