HDS5C3015ALA632 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.5TB and featuring a SATA interface. HDS5C3015ALA632 Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 1.5TB 5400RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HDS5C3015ALA632 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HDS5C3015ALA632 Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HDS5C3015ALA632
• Disk Family: Deskstar 5K3000
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 1500 GB (1500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 3
• Number Of Heads: 5
• Rotational Speed: 5940 RPM
• Rotation Time: 10.10 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 5.05 ms
• Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 32768 KB
• Average Seek Time: 14 ms
• Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
• Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
• Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
• Weight: 680 grams (1.50 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 HDS5C3015ALA632 Hard Drives:

• HDS5C3015ALA632, PN 0F12116, MLC MNL580, Hitachi 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HDS5C3015ALA632 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 HDS5C3015ALA632 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HDS5C3015ALA632 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:
0J11390, etc.

Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0J11430 BA3895A, etc.