ST973402SS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 73GB and featuring a SAS interface. ST973402SS Seagate Savvio 73GB 10000RPM SAS 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST973402SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST973402SS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST973402SS
  • Disk Family: Savvio 10K.2 73402
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 73 GB (73 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 2
  • Rotational Speed: 10000 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 6.00 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 3.00 ms
  • Disk Interface: SAS
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 4.4 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 0.4 ms
  • Width: 70.1 mm (2.76 inch)
  • Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 14.8 mm (0.58 inch)
  • Weight: 210 grams (0.46 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.3 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1200 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 2.4 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 1.2 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.36 W
  • Manufacturer: Seagate Technology

Seagate ST973402SS Hard Drives:

ST973402SS Seagate 73GB SAS 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST973402SS, 3NP, AMKSPR, PN 9F4066-031, FW MS00, Seagate 73GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST973402SS, 3NP, PN 9F4066-043, FW S229, Dell 73GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST973402SS, 3NP, PN 9F4066-042, FW S207, Seagate 73GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST973402SS, 3NP, PN 9F4066-043, FW S229, Seagate 73GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST973402SS, 3NP, AMKSPR, PN 9F4066-003, FW 0003, Seagate 73.4GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST973402SS 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 ST973402SS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST973402SS 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:
100419609, etc.