HCS721050CLA362 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Hitachi HCS721050CLA362 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi HCS721050CLA362 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HCS721050CLA362
- Disk Family: CinemaStar 7K1000.C
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300 (SATA-2 3.0Gbps)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB (16 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 10 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 14.0 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1.0 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.02 inch)
- Weight: 400 grams (0.88 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 2.0A)
- Power Required (Seek): 5.4 W
- Power Required (Idle): 3.3 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.0 W
- Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi HCS721050CLA362 Hard Drives:
- 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.