HDS5C4040ALE630 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 4TB and featuring a SATA interface. HDS5C4040ALE630 Hitachi Deskstar 5K4000 4TB 5400RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Hitachi HDS5C4040ALE630 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi HDS5C4040ALE630 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HDS5C4040ALE630
- Disk Family: Deskstar 5K4000
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 4 TB (4 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 5
- Number Of Heads: 10
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 32768 KB
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 690 grams (1.52 pounds)
- Required Power For Spinup: 3300 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 7 W
- Power Required (Idle): 5 W
- Power Required (Standby): 2 W
- Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi HDS5C4040ALE630 Hard Drives:
- HDS5C4040ALE630, PN 0F14696, MLC MPL250, Hitachi 4TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HDS5C4040ALE630, PN 0F14697, MLC MPL3B0, Hitachi 4TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HDS5C4040ALE630, PN 0F14696, MLC MPL3B0, Hitachi 4TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Hitachi HDS5C4040ALE630 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 HDS5C4040ALE630 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HDS5C4040ALE630 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:
0J14326 BA4220_, 0J14326 BA4220A, 0J21710 BA4303_, 0J21731 BA4492B, 0J21731 BA4492_, 0J21710 BA4303A, etc.