HCS5C1050CLA382 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. HCS5C1050CLA382 Hitachi CinemaStar 5K1000 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Hitachi HCS5C1050CLA382 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi HCS5C1050CLA382 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HCS5C1050CLA382
- Disk Family: Cinemastar 5K1000
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 5700 RPM
- Rotation Time: 10.53 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.26 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 8 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 14 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.8 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 400 grams (0.88 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 HCS5C1050CLA382 Hard Drives:
- HCS5C1050CLA382, PN 0A39418, MLC JPC50E, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HCS5C1050CLA382, PN 0F11010, MLC JPC39G, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HCS5C1050CLA382, PN 0F16114, MLC JPC50F, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Hitachi HCS5C1050CLA382 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 HCS5C1050CLA382 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HCS5C1050CLA382 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, 0A71256, etc.
Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0J21705 BA4268A, 0A72937 BA3321B, 0A72937 BA3786_, 0J21706 BA4268A, 0J21705 BA4268_, etc.