HDS721680PLA380 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. HDS721680PLA380 Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 80GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HDS721680PLA380 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HDS721680PLA380 Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HDS721680PLA380
• Disk Family: Deskstar 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: Serial-ATA/300
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 8192 KB
• Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
• Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
• Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
• Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
• Weight: 560 grams (1.23 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 HDS721680PLA380 Hard Drives:

• Hitachi HDS721680PLA380, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 80GB SATA 3.5″ HDD
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A33931, MLC BA2532, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A33450, MLC BA2165, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A33931, MLC BA2235, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A33450, MLC BA2535, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A33931, MLC BA2357, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0Y30005, MLC BA2358, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A33982, MLC BA2355, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A32727, MLC BA2358, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A33534, MLC BA2165, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A33556, MLC BA2331, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A33534, MLC BA1957, Hitachi 82GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A31885, MLC BA2358, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A31885, MLC BA2165, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A32727, MLC BA2165, Hitachi 82GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS721680PLA380, PN 0A33998, MLC BA1957, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HDS721680PLA380 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 HDS721680PLA380 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HDS721680PLA380 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:
0A29625, 0A29626, 0A29625, 0A29470, 0A29470, etc.

Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0A29695 BA2292_, 0A29695 BA2879_, 0A53043 BA2178_, 0A53039 BA2178, 0A53039 BA2178_, 0A29530 BA1790_, etc.