Hitachi HTS543225A7A381 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Hitachi HTS543225A7A381 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD PCB repair and recommended retailers.
Hitachi HTS543225A7A381 Technical Details:
Manufacturer:
Hitachi (HGST)
Hard Disk Model:
HTS543225A7A381
Disk Family:
Travelstar Z5K320
Form Factor:
2.5″
Capacity:
250 GB (250,000,000,000 bytes)
Formatted Capacity:
Approximately 232 GB
Number Of Disks:
1
Number Of Heads:
1
Rotational Speed:
5400 RPM
Average Seek Time:
12.0 ms (read) / 13.0 ms (write)
Disk Interface:
Serial ATA-300 (SATA 3 Gb/s)
Buffer Size:
8192 KB (8 MB)
External Transfer Rate:
300 MB/s
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF):
500,000 hours
Hitachi HTS543225A7A381 Hard Drives:
- HTS543225A7A381 – 250 GB SATA 2.5″ Slim Laptop Hard Drive, Travelstar Z5K320 series
Hitachi HTS543225A7A381 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 HTS543225A7A381 HDD PCB Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HTS543225A7A381 hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as 0A75647, etc.
