Seagate ST3500830A

ST3500830A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3500830A Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM Ultra ATA-100 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST3500830A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST3500830A Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST3500830A
• Disk Family: Barracuda 7200.10 500830
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 3
• Number Of Heads: 6
• Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
• Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
• Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 8192 KB
• Drive Ready Time (typical): 15 seconds
• Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
• Track To Track Seek Time: 0.8 ms
• Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
• Depth: 146.99 mm (5.79 inch)
• Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
• Weight: 635 grams (1.40 pounds)
• Acoustic (Idle): 2.1 Bel
• Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.3 Bel
• Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.3 Bel
• Required Power For Spinup: 2000 mA
• Power Required (Seek): 5.8 W
• Power Required (Idle): 4.50 W
• Manufacturer: Seagate Technology

Seagate ST3500830A Hard Drives:

• ST3500830AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ136-224, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• Seagate ST3500830AS, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 500GB SATA 3.5″ HDD
• ST3500830AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ136-188, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ136-505, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ136-566, FW 3.AFE, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ136-100, FW 3.AFD, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 6QG, SU, PN 9BJ136-566, FW 3.AFE, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ136-150, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830A, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ036-224, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 6QG, SU, PN 9BJ136-305, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ136-500, FW 3.AAC, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ136-224, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ136-566, FW 3.AFE, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ136-276, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830A, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ036-505, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830A, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ036-500, FW 3.AAC, Seagate 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830A, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ036-505, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ136-505, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830A, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ036-305, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ136-100, FW 3.AFD, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 6QG, SU, PN 9BJ136-224, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3500830AS, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ136-305, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST3500830A 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 ST3500830A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST3500830A 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:
100406937, 100414872, etc.