ST31500541AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.5TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST31500541AS Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB 5900RPM SATA 3GB/s 3.5-inch 32MB Cache Internal.

All information about the Seagate ST31500541AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST31500541AS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST31500541AS
  • Disk Family: Barracuda LP 1500541
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 1500 GB (1500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 4
  • Number Of Heads: 8
  • Rotational Speed: 5900 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 10.17 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.08 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 32768 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 16 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 16 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
  • Width: 101.85 mm (4.01 inch)
  • Depth: 146.99 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 655 grams (1.44 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 ST31500541AS Hard Drives:

ST31500541AS Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST31500541AS, 5XW, WU, PN 9TN15R-510, FW CC34, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 6XW, SZ, PN 9TN15R-301, FW CC34, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 6XW, SU, PN 9TN15R-510, FW CC34, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 6XW, SU, PN 9TN15R-301, FW CC34, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 9XW, TK, PN 9TN15R-301, FW CC34, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 9XW, TK, PN 9TN15R-510, FW CC34, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 5XW, WU, PN 9TN15R-568, FW CC91, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 6XW, SU, PN 9TN15R-568, FW CC95, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 5XW, WU, PN 9TN15R-568, FW CC95, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 6XW, SU, PN 9TN15R-568, FW CC94, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 5XW, SU, PN 9TN15R-300, FW CC32, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 6XW, SU, PN 9TN15R-300, FW CC32, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 5XW, WU, PN 9TN15R-568, FW CC94, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 5XW, SU, PN 9TN15R-568, FW CC91, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 6XW, SU, PN 9TN15R-568, FW CC91, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31500541AS, 5XW, SU, PN 9TN15R-510, FW CC34, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST31500541AS 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 ST31500541AS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST31500541AS 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:
100536501, 100535537, etc.