HDS721050DLE630 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. HDS721050DLE630 Hitachi DESKSTAR 7K1000.D 500GB 7200RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6GB/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HDS721050DLE630 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HDS721050DLE630 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HDS721050DLE630
  • Disk Family: Deskstar 7K1000.D
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 500 GB (500 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: Serial-ATA/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 32768 KB
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 450 grams (0.99 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 HDS721050DLE630 Hard Drives:

HDS721050DLE630 Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • HDS721050DLE630, PN 9F13178, MLC MRS650, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HDS721050DLE630, PN 9F13178, MLC MRS610, Toshiba 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HDS721050DLE630, PN 0F13178, MLC MRS610, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HDS721050DLE630 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 HDS721050DLE630 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HDS721050DLE630 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:
LSI 6045, etc.

Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0J21827 BA4273B, 0J21896 BA4300A, etc.