HTS545050A7E362 Hitachi 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. HTS545050A7E362 Hitachi Travelstar Z5K500 500GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HTS545050A7E362 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HTS545050A7E362 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HTS545050A7E362
  • Disk Family: Travelstar Z5K500
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 2
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Width: 70 mm (2.76 inch)
  • Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 7 mm (0.28 inch)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 900 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 1.7 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 0.8 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.2 W
  • Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Hitachi HTS545050A7E362 Hard Drives:

HTS545050A7E362 Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • HGST 2.5" HTS545050A7E362 500GB LAPTOP HARD DRIVE
  • HTS545050A7E362, PN 0J34245, MLC DA5754, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • HTS545050A7E362, PN 0J38755, MLC DA5754, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • HTS545050A7E362, PN 0J38085, MLC DA5754, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • HTS545050A7E362, PN 0J38105, MLC DA5754, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • HTS545050A7E362, PN 0J23845, MLC DA5206, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • HTS545050A7E362, PN 0J23535, MLC DA5754, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • HTS545050A7E362, PN 0J23845, MLC DA5115, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HTS545050A7E362 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 HTS545050A7E362 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HTS545050A7E362 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:
88I9205-TLA2, etc.

Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0J24193 DA5071, 0J24193 DA5071B, 0J24191 DA5071_, etc.