HUS154530VLS300 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SAS interface. HUS154530VLS300 Hitachi Ultrastar 15K450 300GB 15000RPM SAS 3GB/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HUS154530VLS300 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HUS154530VLS300 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HUS154530VLS300
  • Disk Family: Ultrastar 15K450
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 300 GB (300 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 3
  • Number Of Heads: 6
  • 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: 750 grams (1.65 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 HUS154530VLS300 Hard Drives:

HUS154530VLS300 Hitachi 300GB SAS 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Hitachi HUS154530VLS300, 15000RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 300GB SAS 3.5″ HDD
  • HUS154530VLS300, PN 0B23468, MLC VM0NA00, Hitachi 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HUS154530VLS300, PN 0B23460, MLC A4C2, Hitachi 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HUS154530VLS300 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 HUS154530VLS300 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HUS154530VLS300 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:
0B23191, 0B23140, etc.

Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0B23256 AA0603_, 0B23442 AA0651B, 0B23258 AA0603_, etc.