Seagate ST39236LW 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 9.2 GB and featuring a SCSI interface.
All information about the Seagate ST39236LW hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST39236LW Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST39236LW
- Disk Family: Barracuda 18XL
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 9.2 GB (9.19 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 3
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra160 SCSI (68-pin)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 160 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 2048 KB
- Average Seek Time: 5.8 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.0 inch)
- Depth: 146.05 mm (5.75 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.0 inch)
- Weight: 680 grams (1.50 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.5 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 2800 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 12.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 8.4 W
- Power Required (Standby): –
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology LLC
Seagate ST39236LW Hard Drives:
- ST39236LW, 3BN, PN 9N3012-002, FW 0004, Seagate 9GB SCSI 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST39236LW 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 ST39236LW Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST39236LW 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 75789625, etc.