ST31055N Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST31055N Seagate 1GB 5400RPM Ultra SCSI 50-Pin 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST31055N hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST31055N Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST31055N
  • Disk Family: Hawk 2XL 1055
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 1060 MB (1060 x 1 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 4
  • Rotational Speed: 5411 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.09 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.54 ms
  • Disk Interface: Ultra SCSI
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 20 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 512 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 10.4 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 2.7 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 20.4 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 146.1 mm (5.75 inch)
  • Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
  • Weight: 680 grams (1.50 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.7 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 2800 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 12.8 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 7.20 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.80 W
  • Manufacturer: Seagate Technology

Seagate ST31055N Hard Drives:

ST31055N Seagate 1GB IDE 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST31055N, TC1, PN 9C4011-026, FW 0318, Seagate 1GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST31055N 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 ST31055N Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST31055N 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:
75785956-A, etc.