Hitachi HDS728080PLA380

HDS728080PLA380 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. HDS728080PLA380 Hitachi DESKSTAR 7K80 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache 3.5-inch SATA 3GB/s 7-Pin Hard Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HDS728080PLA380 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HDS728080PLA380 Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HDS728080PLA380
• Disk Family: Deskstar 7K80
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 80 GB (80 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 1
• Number Of Heads: 2
• 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: 8.8 ms
• Track To Track Seek Time: 1.1 ms
• Full Stroke Seek Time: 15.1 ms
• Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
• Depth: 146 mm (5.75 inch)
• Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 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 HDS728080PLA380 Hard Drives:

• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A31048, MLC BA1468, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A33168, MLC BA1868, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A32328, MLC BA1869, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A30356, MLC BA1869, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A32074, MLC BA1574, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A30356, MLC BA1649, Hitachi 82.3GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A30356, MLC BA1760, Hitachi 82.3GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 40Y9028, MLC DA1574, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A32074, MLC BA1263, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A31914, MLC BA1356, Hitachi 82.3GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A31019, MLC BA1574, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A31019, MLC BA1869, IBM 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A32328, MLC BA1869, Hitachi 82.3GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A30356, MLC BA1356, Hitachi 82.3GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A30354, MLC BA1869, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A30354, MLC BA1356, Hitachi 82.3GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 0A32328, MLC BA1649, Hitachi 82.3GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• HDS728080PLA380, PN 40Y9028, MLC BA1574, Hitachi 80GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HDS728080PLA380 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 HDS728080PLA380 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HDS728080PLA380 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:
0A29177, 0A29286, 0A29286, etc.

Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0A29221 BA1292_, 0A29287 BA1836_, 0A29221 BA1292, 0A29287 BA1686_, etc.