HTS545050B9A300 Hitachi 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. HTS545050B9A300 Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B 500GB 5400RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3GB/s 7-Pin 2.5-inch Laptop Hard Drive.
All information about the Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HTS545050B9A300
- Disk Family: Travelstar 5K500.B
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 3.5 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 12 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 20 ms
- Width: 70 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 102 grams (0.22 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 HTS545050B9A300 Hard Drives:
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0A70345, MLC DA2987, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0A78265, MLC DA3331, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0A74425, MLC DA2831, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- Hitachi HTS545050B9A300, 5400RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 500GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0A74815, MLC DA3186, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0A70425, MLC DA2831, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0A71705, MLC DA2996, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0Y30055, MLC DA2987, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0A70375, MLC DA2959, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0A74095, MLC DA2997, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0J18865, MLC DA3960, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0A70435, MLC DA2944, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0A70355, MLC DA2961, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0A57915, MLC DA2987, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS545050B9A300, PN 0A57915, MLC DA2839, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 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 HTS545050B9A300 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 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:
0A58720, etc.
Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0A71398 DA2969B, 0A58732 DA2739D, 0A71398 DA2969A, 0A71398 DA2969_, 0A58732DA2739D, 0A58732 DA2739C, 0A58732 DA2739F, 0A71258 DA2802_, 0A58732 DA2739E, 0A71398 DA2969C, 0A58732 DA2739A, etc.