HUH728080ALE604 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 8TB and featuring a SATA interface. HUH728080ALE604 Hitachi Dell Ultrastar HE8 8TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 128MB Cache 512E SE 3.5-inch Helium Platform Enterprise Hard Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HUH728080ALE604 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HUH728080ALE604 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: HUH728080ALE60
  • Disk Family: Ultrastar He8
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 8 TB (8 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 7
  • Number Of Heads: 14
  • Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
  • Disk Interface: SAS
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 131072 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 20 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 650 grams (1.43 pounds)
  • Required Power For Spinup: 3300 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 7 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 5 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 2 W
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Hitachi HUH728080ALE604 Hard Drives:

HUH728080ALE604 Hitachi 8TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • HUH728080ALE604, PN 0F23668, MLC AR8514, Hitachi 8TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HUH728080ALE604 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 HUH728080ALE604 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HUH728080ALE604 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:
LSI 7101B, etc.

Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0J35276 BA5145B, etc.