HGST HCS5C1010CLA382 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the HGST HCS5C1010CLA382 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

HGST HCS5C1010CLA382 Technical Details:
Manufacturer:
HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies)
Hard Disk Model:
HCS5C1010CLA382
Disk Family:
CinemaStar 5C1000 (Consumer Electronics series)
Form Factor:
3.5″
Capacity:
1 TB (1,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Formatted Capacity:
Approximately 931.5 GB
Number Of Disks:
2
Number Of Heads:
4
Rotational Speed:
CoolSpin technology (Internal spindle speed approx. 5700 RPM)
Average Seek Time:
14.5 ms (read, typical)
Disk Interface:
Serial ATA-300 (SATA 3 Gb/s)
Buffer Size:
8192 KB (8 MB)
External Transfer Rate:
300 MB/s
Internal Transfer Rate:
Up to 135 MB/s
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF):
1,000,000 hours
Advanced Format:
512n (native 512-byte sectors, not 4K)
HGST HCS5C1010CLA382 Hard Drives:
- HCS5C1010CLA382 – 1 TB SATA 3.5″ Consumer Electronics Hard Drive, CinemaStar 5C1000 series
HGST HCS5C1010CLA382 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
HGST HCS5C1010CLA382 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems HGST HCS5C1010CLA382 hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as 0A71256, etc.