HTS725050A9A362 Hitachi 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. HTS725050A9A362 Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive.
All information about the Hitachi HTS725050A9A362 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi HTS725050A9A362 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HTS725050A9A362
- Disk Family: Travelstar 7K500
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- 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: 115 grams (0.25 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 1.6 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.2 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 400 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 0.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.35 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.08 W
- Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi HTS725050A9A362 Hard Drives:
- HTS725050A9A362, PN 0J13965, MLC DA3847, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS725050A9A362, PN 0A73375, MLC DA3212, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HTS725050A9A362, PN 0A73385, MLC DA3526, Hitachi 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Hitachi HTS725050A9A362 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 HTS725050A9A362 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HTS725050A9A362 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:
0A71352, etc.
Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0A71430 DA3006B, 0A71430 DA3006A, etc.