HTS545080B9A300 Hitachi 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. Hitachi HTS545080B9A300 80GB 5.4K SATA 2.5Inch 8MB Cache Hard Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HTS545080B9A300 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HTS545080B9A300 Technical Details:

• Manufacturer: Hitachi
• Manufacturer Website: www.hitachi.com
• Manufacturer Part No: HTS545080B9A300
• Product Series or Family: TravelStar 5K500
• Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
• Storage Capacity: 80GB
• Spindle Speed: 5400RPM
• Drive Interface: SATA
• Form Factor: 2.5Inch
• Cache: 8MB

Hitachi HTS545080B9A300 Hard Drives:

• HTS545080B9A300, PN 0A70446, MLC DA2943, Hitachi 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HTS545080B9A300 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 HTS545080B9A300 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HTS545080B9A300 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 DA2969A, etc.