Seagate ST9146853SS 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 146 GB and featuring a SAS interface.
All information about the Seagate ST9146853SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST9146853SS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST9146853SS
- Disk Family: Savvio 15K.3 146853
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 146.8 GB (146.8 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 15000 RPM
- Rotation Time: 4.00 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 2.00 ms
- Disk Interface: SAS
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 65536 KB
- Average Seek Time: 2.7 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.2 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 5.3 ms
- Width: 70 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100.45 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 15 mm (0.59 inch)
- Weight: 193 grams (0.43 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 ST9146853SS Hard Drives:
- ST9146853SS, 6XM, SUZHSG, PN 9SV066-005, FW 0005, Seagate 146GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST9146853SS 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 ST9146853SS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST9146853SS 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 100617020 REV A, etc.