Seagate ST300MM0048 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300 GB and featuring a SAS interface.
All information about the Seagate ST300MM0048 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST300MM0048 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST300MM0048
- Disk Family: Exos 10E2400 / Enterprise Performance 10K
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 300 GB (300 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: 2.90 ms
- Disk Interface: SAS-3 (12 Gb/s)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 1200 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 131072 KB
- Average Seek Time: 2.9 ms
- Width: 70.10 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100.45 mm (3.95 inch)
- Height: 15.00 mm (0.59 inch)
- Weight: 189 grams (0.42 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.8 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: –
- Power Required (Seek): 7.1 W
- Power Required (Idle): 3.6 W
- Power Required (Standby): –
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology LLC
Seagate ST300MM0048 Hard Drives:
- Seagate ST300MM0048 Exos 10E2400 300 GB 2.5″ Internal Hard Drive SAS 12 Gb/s 10000 RPM 128 MB Buffer hard drive;
Seagate ST300MM0048 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 ST300MM0048 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST300MM0048 hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as 100798099, etc.