HUH728080ALE600 data recovery
Recovering data from the Hitachi HUH728080ALE600 (8TB Ultrastar He8), a 3.5-inch SATA and SAS drive from the HGST Deskstar NAS and Ultrastar range. Free evaluation in our central London clean-room lab, with courier collection from anywhere in the UK.
About the HUH728080ALE600
| Make | Hitachi / HGST / IBM |
| Family | HGST Deskstar NAS and Ultrastar |
| Model | HUH728080ALE600 |
| Capacity | 8TB Ultrastar He8 |
| Size | 3.5-inch |
| Connection | SATA and SAS |
| Made | 2010–today |
| Used in | NAS / enterprise |
What usually goes wrong
Ultrastar drives with "He" in the name are helium-filled. After 2018 they carry WD model numbers. We image each RAID member with PC-3000 before rebuilding the array.
If your HUH728080ALE600 is clicking, beeping or not spinning, switch it off. Every restart can damage the platters further. Don’t open it and don’t run recovery software on it.
How we recover the HUH728080ALE600
We use PC-3000 systems from ACE Lab, the professional standard for data recovery labs. PC-3000 lets us repair a drive’s firmware through its service area, read damaged drives one head at a time, and copy weak drives slowly and safely without stressing them. Physical repairs such as replacing read/write heads are done in our clean room in central London, so the drive never leaves our lab.
We always work on a copy of the drive, never the original, and you get a list of recovered files to check before you pay for the recovery.
Prices
| Evaluation | Free |
| Clean-room diagnostic | £79 |
| Deleted files, working drive | £99 |
| Logical recovery, 1TB–4TB | £150–£250 |
| Physical recovery, single driveplus donor drive if needed | £450 |
All prices + VAT. Full price list
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