HTS545032A7E680 Hitachi 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. HTS545032A7E680 Hitachi Travelstar Z5K500 320GB 5400RPM SATA 6GB/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Hitachi HTS545032A7E680 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi HTS545032A7E680 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HTS545032A7E680
- Disk Family: Travelstar Z5K500
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 320 GB (320 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 3.5 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 13 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 25 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 6.8 mm (0.27 inch)
- Weight: 95 grams (0.21 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 900 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 1.7 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.8 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.2 W
- Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi HTS545032A7E680 Hard Drives:
- HTS545032A7E680, PN 0J30133, MLC DA5340, Hitachi 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545032A7E680, PN 0J37163, MLC DA6129, Hitachi 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545032A7E680, PN 0J30003, MLC DA5456, Hitachi 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- Hitachi HTS545032A7E680, 5400RPM, 6.0Gp/s, 320GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
Hitachi HTS545032A7E680 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 HTS545032A7E680 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HTS545032A7E680 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:
0J24301 DA2529_, 0J24297 DA5258A, 0J24159 DA5257A, 0J24301 DA5259_, etc.