HDS725050KLA360 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. HDS725050KLA360 Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HDS725050KLA360 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HDS725050KLA360 Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HDS725050KLA360
• Disk Family: Deskstar E7K500
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 5
• Number Of Heads: 10
• 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: 16384 KB
• Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
• Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
• Depth: 146 mm (5.75 inch)
• Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
• Weight: 700 grams (1.54 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 HDS725050KLA360 Hard Drives:

• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32779, MLC BA1831, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A31619, MLC BA1645, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32780, MLC BA1772, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32904, MLC BA1723, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A31619, MLC BA1772, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32216, MLC BA1963, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A31653, MLC BA1528, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A31619, MLC BA1854, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• Hitachi Deskstar HDS725050KLA360 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3.5" Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A33149, MLC BA1918, IBM 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32801, MLC BA1883, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32801, MLC BA18831, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A31654, MLC BA1528, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32299, MLC BA1791, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A31004, MLC BA1772, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32993, MLC BA1854, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32216, MLC BA1673, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A33143, MLC BA2083, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32780, MLC BA1755, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32763, MLC BA1723, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32412, MLC BA1961, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A31004, MLC BA1854, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32993, MLC BA1772, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A32238, MLC BA1723, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS725050KLA360, PN 0A31619, MLC BA1457, Hitachi 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HDS725050KLA360 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 HDS725050KLA360 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HDS725050KLA360 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:
0A29514, 0A29514, 0A29177, etc.

Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0A29382 BA1462_, 0A31619 BA14570, 0A29256 BA1494_, 0A29256 BA1739_, 0A29516 BA1699, 0A29516 BA1699_, 0A29256 BA1601_, etc.