HUS726060ALS640 Hitachi 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 6TB and featuring a SAS interface. HUS726060ALS640 Hitachi Ultrastar HE6 6TB 7200RPM SAS 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch HELIUM PLATFORM Enterprise Hard Drive.

All information about the Hitachi HUS726060ALS640 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Hitachi HUS726060ALS640 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: HITACHI HUS726060ALS640
  • Disk Family: Ultrastar He6
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 6 TB (6 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: 65536 KB
  • 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: 640 grams (1.41 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.0 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 3200 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 8.8 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 5.5 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 4.1 W
  • Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Hitachi HUS726060ALS640 Hard Drives:

HUS726060ALS640 Hitachi 6TB SAS 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • HUS726060ALS640, PN 0F18370, MLC AR6280, Hitachi 6TB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive

Hitachi HUS726060ALS640 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 HUS726060ALS640 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Hitachi HUS726060ALS640 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 6060, etc.

Multiple Sticker Number revisions:
0J24565 BA4852D, etc.