H7220AA30 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Hitachi H7220AA30 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi H7220AA30 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: HGST / Sun H7220AA30
- Disk Family: Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000 / Sun Storage Series
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 2 TB (2,000,000,000,000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300 (SATA II 3.0 Gb/s)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/second
- Buffer Size: 32768 KB (32 MB)
- Number of Disks (Platters): 5
- Number of Heads: 10
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.02 inch)
- Weight: 740 grams (1.63 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Sun Microsystems OEM)
Hitachi H7220AA30 Hard Drives:
- Hitachi H7220AA30, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 2TB SATA 3.5″ HDD
- H7220AA30, PN 0F10500, MLC JPK28A, Hitachi 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Hitachi H7220AA30 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 H7220AA30 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi H7220AA30 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:
0A71261, etc.
Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0A71339 BA3293A, etc.