HUS153030VLS300 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SAS interface. HUS153030VLS300 Hitachi Ultrastar 15K300 300GB 15000RPM 16MB Cache SAS 3GB/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HUS153030VLS300 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HUS153030VLS300 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HUS153030VLS300
  • Disk Family: Ultrastar 15K300
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 300 GB (300 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 4
  • Number Of Heads: 8
  • Rotational Speed: 15000 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 4.00 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 2.00 ms
  • Disk Interface: SAS
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 3.6 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 146.2 mm (5.76 inch)
  • Height: 25.8 mm (1.02 inch)
  • Weight: 745 grams (1.64 pounds)
  • Required Power For Spinup: 3300 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 7 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 5 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 2 W
  • Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Hitachi HUS153030VLS300 Hard Drives:

HUS153030VLS300 Hitachi 300GB SAS 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • HUS153030VLS300, PN 0B22156, IBM 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • Hitachi HUS153030VLS300, 15000RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 300GB SAS 3.5″ HDD
  • HUS153030VLS300, PN 0B22174, MLC VB0NA01, Hitachi 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HUS153030VLS300, PN 0B22188, MLC SA04, Hitachi 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HUS153030VLS300, PN 0B22179, MLC A280, Hitachi 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HUS153030VLS300, PN 0B22179, MLC A4CS, Dell 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HUS153030VLS300 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 HUS153030VLS300 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HUS153030VLS300 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:
0B23145, 0B22249, 0B23140, etc.

Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0B22252 AA0402E, 0B23414 AA0642_, 0B22252 AA0402J, etc.