HDT722516DLAT80 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 164GB and featuring a IDE interface. HDT722516DLAT80 Hitachi DESKSTAR 160GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache ATA-133 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Hitachi HDT722516DLAT80 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi HDT722516DLAT80 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HDT722516DLAT80
- Disk Family: Deskstar T7K250
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 3
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/133
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 133 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 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: 640 grams (1.41 pounds)
- Required Power For Spinup: 3100 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 7 W
- Power Required (Idle): 5 W
- Power Required (Standby): 2 W
- Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi HDT722516DLAT80 Hard Drives:
- HDT722516DLAT80, PN 0A31635, MLC BA1769, Hitachi 164GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HDT722516DLAT80, PN 0A31337, MLC BA1769, Hitachi 164GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HDT722516DLAT80, PN 0A31332, MLC BA1466, Hitachi 164GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HDT722516DLAT80, PN 0A31635, MLC BA1336, Hitachi 164GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HDT722516DLAT80, PN 0A31332, MLC BA1769, Hitachi 164GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Hitachi HDT722516DLAT80 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 HDT722516DLAT80 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HDT722516DLAT80 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:
0A30164, 0A29480, etc.
Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0A29181 BA1438_, 0A29476 BA1588_, 0A30596 BA1292_, etc.