HTS545032A7E330 Hitachi 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Hitachi HTS545032A7E330 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi HTS545032A7E330 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: HGST Travelstar Z5K500 (HTS545032A7E330)
- Disk Family: Travelstar Z5K500 Series
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 320 GB (320,000,000,000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300 (SATA II 3.0 Gb/s)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/second
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB (8 MB)
- Number of Disks (Platters): 1
- Number of Heads: 2
- Width: 70.0 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100.0 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 7.0 mm (0.28 inch Slim)
- Weight: 95 grams (0.21 pounds)
- Manufacturer: HGST (a Western Digital company)
Hitachi HTS545032A7E330 Hard Drives:

- HTS545032A7E330, PN 0J42473, MLC DA6606, Hitachi 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545032A7E330, PN 0J34153, MLC DA6051, Hitachi 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Hitachi HTS545032A7E330 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 HTS545032A7E330 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HTS545032A7E330 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:
88I9205-TLA2, etc.
Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0J34927 DA6138A, 0J24279 DA5418A, etc.