SP0822N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. SP0822N Samsung 80GB 7200RPM ATA-133 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Samsung SP0822N hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung SP0822N Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG SP0822N
  • Disk Family: SpinPoint P80
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 80 GB (80 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: Ultra-ATA/133
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 133 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 2048 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 7 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 0.8 ms
  • Full Stroke Seek Time: 18 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 146.05 mm (5.75 inch)
  • Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
  • Weight: 635 grams (1.40 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.7 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 2250 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 8.8 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 7.2 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.5 W
  • Manufacturer: Samsung

Samsung SP0822N Hard Drives:

SP0822N Samsung 80GB IDE 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • SP0822N, SP0822N, FW WA100-34, P/V FS, Samsung 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Samsung SP0822N 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

Samsung SP0822N Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung SP0822N 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:
BF41-00087A, etc.