HUC106060CSS60 Hitachi 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 600GB and featuring a SAS interface.
All information about the Hitachi HUC106060CSS60 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi HUC106060CSS60 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HUC106060CSS60
- Disk Family: Ultrastar C10K600
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 600 GB (600 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 3
- Number Of Heads: 6
- Rotational Speed: 10000 RPM
- Rotation Time: 6.00 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 3.00 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-2 6Gbps)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 65536 KB (64 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 15 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 4.1 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.2 ms
- Width: 70.1 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100.6 mm (3.96 inch)
- Height: 15.0 mm (0.59 inch)
- Weight: 214 grams (0.47 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.0 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.4 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 1.2A)
- Power Required (Seek): 5.9 W
- Power Required (Idle): 3.4 W
- Power Required (Standby): 2.1 W
- Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi HUC106060CSS60 Hard Drives:

- HUC106060CSS60, PN 0B25659, MLC CD0C330, Hitachi 600GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HUC106060CSS600, PN 0B23909, MLC CD0A202, Hitachi 600GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HUC106060CSS600, PN 0B25644, MLC HPD7, HP 600GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
Hitachi HUC106060CSS60 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 HUC106060CSS60 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HUC106060CSS60 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:
0B25583, etc.
Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0B26368 AA1283B, 0B26364 AA1281B, 0B26368 AA1283C, etc.