

With decades of experience working with Hitachi storage we know the complexity of matching donor hard drive parts to the failed hard drive. Very rarely do we see Hitachi hard drives with scoring to the platter surface unless there were excessive attempts to repower the drive.

Although a head crash is a catastrophic hard drive failure, we are very successful at recovering data from a clicking Hitachi hard drive. If this fault is not exacerbated by continued attempts to try to get the drive to run, the data is most likely recoverable. The clicking sound is an audible symptom of one or more read/write heads that have failed and are no longer able to read data stored on the platter’s surface. The ambient noise within the laptop itself may drown out the sounds hard drive is making. The clicking sound may be harder to detect within Hitachi laptop hard drives. Hitachi hard drives click, and the clicking sound is usually very audible. When a Hitachi hard drive fails it is almost always an internal failure. Most hard drives have a common fault when they do fail. Since 1999, DTI Data recovery has had a long history recovering data from Hitachi hard drives both the 2.5” laptop and 3.5”desktop hard drives models.Īs we know, all hard drives will eventually fail. Hitachi’s hard drive division is currently owned by Western Digital.
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Hitachi has also manufactured the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) “ULTRASTAR” line of hard drives. They continued the 2.5 inch hard drive family “TRAVELSTAR” as well as the 3.5 inch desktop family “DESKSTAR”. Hitachi acquired IBM’s storage division in 2002. Hitachi has manufactured hard drives for decades via Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST).
