HUS156060VLS600 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 600GB and featuring a SAS interface. HUS156060VLS600 Hitachi Ultrastar 15K600 600GB 15000RPM 64MB Cache SAS 6GB/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HUS156060VLS600 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HUS156060VLS600 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HUS156060VLS600
  • Disk Family: Ultrastar 15K600
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 600 GB (600 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: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 65536 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 3.4 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 HUS156060VLS600 Hard Drives:

HUS156060VLS600 Hitachi 600GB SAS 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Hitachi HUS156060VLS600, 15000RPM, 6.0Gp/s, 600GB SAS 3.5″ HDD
  • HUS156060VLS600, PN 0B24481, MLC VC0C650, Hitachi 600GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HUS156060VLS600, PN 0B24511, MLC A6C0, Hitachi 600GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HUS156060VLS600, PN 0B23663, MLC VC0A760, Hitachi 600GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HUS156060VLS600, PN 0B24502, MLC VC0NA00, Hitachi 600GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HUS156060VLS600, PN 0B24532, Hitachi 600GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HUS156060VLS600, PN 0B24484, MLC A3C4, IBM 600GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HUS156060VLS600, PN 0B24511, MLC A5C8, Hitachi 600GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HUS156060VLS600, PN 0B24514, MLC HPH1, HP 600GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • HUS156060VLS600, PN 0B24481, MLC VC0C650, Hitachi 600GB SCSI 3.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HUS156060VLS600 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 HUS156060VLS600 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HUS156060VLS600 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:
0B23571, 0B23571, etc.

Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0B27870 AA1584C, 0B27870 AA15846, 0B24704 AA0908H, 0B26010 AA1226A, 0B26488 AA1329B, 0B27870 AA1584F, 0B26010 AA1226H, 0B26010 AA1226B, 0B27870 AA15846, etc.