ST6000NM0104 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 6TB and featuring a SAS interface.
All information about the Seagate ST6000NM0104 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST6000NM0104 Technical Details:
- Seagate Model: ST6000NM0104
- Enterprise Grade
- Capacity: 6TB
- Speed: 7.2K RPM
- Interface Types: SAS
- Form Factor: 3.5″ LFF Hard Drive
- Encryption/SED Supported
- Sector Size: 512 / 512e
- Sustained Throughput: up to 226
- Electrical Interface: SAS-3 12Gbps
- Compatible Systems: Dell 12th Gen. R720/T620, Dell 13th Gen. R730/T630, Dell 14th Gen. R640/R740
Seagate ST6000NM0104 Hard Drives:
- Dell D9MR9 / Seagate ST6000NM0104 6TB 3.5″ 12Gbps 7200RPM Enterprise SED-FIPS SAS 512e HDD
Seagate ST6000NM0104 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
Seagate ST6000NM0104 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST6000NM0104 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:
, etc.