ST3500418AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3500418AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST3500418AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST3500418AS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST3500418AS
  • Disk Family: Barracuda 7200.12 500418
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 2
  • Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 8.5 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 146.99 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 19.98 mm (0.79 inch)
  • Weight: 415 grams (0.91 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 ST3500418AS Hard Drives:

ST3500418AS Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 500GB SATA Hard Drive ST3500418AS 16MB Cache Bulk/OEM 7200 RPM Desktop
  • ST3500418AS, 5VM, WU, PN 9SL142-023, FW HP35, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 5VM, SU, PN 9SL142-515, FW CC44, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 9VM, TK, PN 9SL142-303, FW CC46, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 6VM, SU, PN 9SL142-021, FW HP34, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 9VM, TK, PN 9SL142-302, FW CC38, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 5VM, WU, PN 9SL142-042, FW AP24, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 9VM, TK, PN 9SL142-516, FW CC46, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 6VM, SU, PN 9SL142-034, FW CC45, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 9VM, TK, PN 9SL142-023, FW HP35, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 5VM, WU, PN 9SL142-542, FW CC66, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 6VM, SU, PN 9SL142-516, FW CC46, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 9VM, TK, PN 9SL142-515, FW CC44, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, Z2A, TK, PN 9SL142-519, FW CC49, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, Z2A, TK, PN 9SL142-240, FW AP73, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 5VM, WU, PN 9SL142-024, FW HP40, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 9VM, TK, PN 9SL142-622, FW HP34, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 9VM, TK, PN 9SL142-621, FW HP22, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 6VM, SU, PN 9SL142-042, FW AP24, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 5VM, SU, PN 9SL142-516, FW CC46, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, Z2A, TK, PN 9SL142-046, FW AP2A, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 5VM, WU, PN 9SL142-033, FW CC44, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 6VM, SU, PN 9SL142-515, FW CC44, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, Z2A, TK, PN 9SL142-516, FW CC46, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3500418AS, 9VM, TK, PN 9SL142-044, FW AP25, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST3500418AS 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 ST3500418AS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST3500418AS 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:
10053704, 100517995, 100535704, 100532367, etc.