ST340810A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST340810A-1 Seagate U6 40GB 5400RPM ATA-100 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST340810A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST340810A Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST340810A
  • Disk Family: U Series 40810
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 40 GB (40 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 2
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 2048 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 6.5 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 1.2 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 22 ms
  • Width: 101.85 mm (4.01 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 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 ST340810A Hard Drives:

ST340810A Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST340810A, 5FB, WU, PN 9T7002-005, FW 3.39, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 6FB, SZ, PN 9T7002-640, FW 3.35, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 5FB, CS, PN 9T7002-393, FW 3.34, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 5FB, WU, PN 9T7002-105, FW 3.39, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 5FB, WU, PN 9T7002-640, FW 3.35, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 5FB, WU, PN 9T7002-041, FW 5.32, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 5FB, WU, PN 9T7002-643, FW 5.46, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 5FB, WU, PN 9T7002-040, FW 5.32, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 5FB, WU, PN 9T7002-304, FW 3.39, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 3FB, AMK, PN 9T7002-304, FW 3.39, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 5FB, WU, PN 9T7002-087, FW 3.39, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 5FB, WU, PN 9T7002-303, FW 3.60, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 3FB, AMK, PN 9T7002-301, FW 3.34, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 5FB, WU, PN 9T8002-304, FW 3.39, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 6FB, SZ, PN 9T7002-640, FW 3.39, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340810A, 5FB, WU, PN 9T7002-034, FW 3.39, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST340810A 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 ST340810A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST340810A 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:
100139362, etc.