HCS5C3020BLE630 Toshiba 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. Hitachi HCS5C3020BLE630 2TB SATA 6.0Gbps 3.5Inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Toshiba HCS5C3020BLE630 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Toshiba HCS5C3020BLE630 Technical Details:

  • Manufacturer: Hitachi
  • Manufacturer Website: www.hitachi.com
  • Manufacturer Part No: HCS5C3020BLE630
  • Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
  • Storage Capacity: 2TB
  • Drive Interface: SATA 6.0Gbps
  • Form Factor: 3.5Inch

Toshiba HCS5C3020BLE630 Hard Drives:

HCS5C3020BLE630 Toshiba 2TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • HCS5C3020BLE630, PN 9F14320, MLC MRCAB0, Toshiba 2TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Toshiba HCS5C3020BLE630 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

Toshiba HCS5C3020BLE630 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Toshiba HCS5C3020BLE630 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 “Board Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number“.

Multiple PCB Number revisions:
0A90380, etc.