HCS721680PLAT80 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80 GB and featuring a IDE interface. HCS721680PLAT80 HITACHI 3.5″ 80 GB Ultra-ATA/133 CinemaStar 7K160 7200 RPM Hard Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HCS721680PLAT80 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HCS721680PLAT80 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HCS721680PLAT80
  • Disk Family: CinemaStar 7K160
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 80 GB (80 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 1
  • Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
  • Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/133
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 133 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 14 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (3.98 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.02 inch)
  • Weight: 560 grams (1.23 pounds)
  • Required Power For Spinup: 3100 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 7 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 5 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 2 W
  • Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Hitachi HCS721680PLAT80 Hard Drives:

HitachiHCS721680PLAT8080 GBIDE3.5

  • HCS721680PLAT80 HITACHI 3.5″ 80 GB Ultra-ATA/133 CinemaStar 7K160 7200 RPM Hard Drive.

Hitachi HCS721680PLAT80 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 HCS721680PLAT80 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HCS721680PLAT80 hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “Main Contorl Chip Number” of the current board, such as etc.