HCS721050CLA362 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. HCS721050CLA362 Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HCS721050CLA362 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HCS721050CLA362 Technical Details:

  • Manufacturer: Hitachi
  • Manufacturer Website: www.hitachi.com
  • Manufacturer Part No: HCS721050CLA362
  • Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
  • Storage Capacity: 500GB
  • Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
  • Drive Interface: SATA
  • Form Factor: 3.5Inch
  • Cache: 16MB

Hitachi HCS721050CLA362 Hard Drives:

HCS721050CLA362 Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • HCS721050CLA362, PN 0F13897, MLC JPT52B, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HCS721050CLA362, PN 0F13836, MLC JPT50G, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HCS721050CLA362 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 HCS721050CLA362 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HCS721050CLA362 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:
0A71256, 0A71261, etc.

Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0J21706 BA4268A, etc.