HUS724020ALE640 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. HUS724020ALE640 Hitachi Ultrastar 7K4000 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.
All information about the Hitachi HUS724020ALE640 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Hitachi HUS724020ALE640 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HUS724020ALE640
- Disk Family: Ultrastar 7K4000
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 2 TB (2 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 3
- Number Of Heads: 5
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 65536 KB
- Average Seek Time: 8 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 690 grams (1.52 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 HUS724020ALE640 Hard Drives:
- HUS724020ALE640, PN 0F14685, MLC MPK3B0, Hitachi 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HUS724020ALE640, PN 0F14685, MLC MPK580, Hitachi 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- Hitachi HUS724020ALE640, 7200RPM, 2TB SATA 3.5″ HDD
Hitachi HUS724020ALE640 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 HUS724020ALE640 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HUS724020ALE640 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 6045, etc.
Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0J21710 BA4303A, 0J21731 BA4492B, 0J24459 BA4786C, etc.