Hitachi HTS725032A9A362 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320 GB and featuring a SATA interface. Hitachi HTS725032A9A362 Travelstar 7K500 320 GB 2.5″ Internal Hard Drive Serial ATA-300 7200 RPM 16 MB Buffer.

All information about the Hitachi HTS725032A9A362 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HTS725032A9A362

Hitachi HTS725032A9A362 Technical Details:

Manufacturer:
Hitachi (HGST)
Hard Disk Model:
HTS725032A9A362
Disk Family:
Travelstar 7K500
Form Factor:
2.5″
Capacity:
320 GB (320,000,000,000 bytes)
Formatted Capacity:
Approximately 298 GB
Number Of Disks:
1
Number Of Heads:
2
Rotational Speed:
7200 RPM
Average Seek Time:
11.0 ms (read) / 12.0 ms (write)
Disk Interface:
Serial ATA-300 (SATA 3 Gb/s)
Buffer Size:
16384 KB (16 MB)
External Transfer Rate:
300 MB/s
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF):
500,000 hours

Note: The Hitachi HTS725032A9A362 is part of the Travelstar 7K500 series, a performance-oriented 2.5″ laptop hard drive line with 7200 RPM spindle speed.


Hitachi HTS725032A9A362 Hard Drives:

  • HTS725032A9A362 – 320 GB SATA 2.5″ Performance Laptop Hard Drive, Travelstar 7K500 series

Hitachi HTS725032A9A362 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 HTS725032A9A362 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HTS725032A9A362 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 0A71430, etc.

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