Seagate ST16000NM001G 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 16 TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST16000NM001G hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST16000NM001G Technical Details:
Manufacturer:
Seagate
Hard Disk Model:
ST16000NM001G
Disk Family:
Exos X16 (Enterprise SAS)
Form Factor:
3.5″
Capacity:
16 TB (16,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Formatted Capacity:
Approximately 14.55 TB
Rotational Speed:
7200 RPM
Average Seek Time:
8.0 ms (read) / 8.6 ms (write)
Disk Interface:
Serial-ATA/600
Buffer Size:
262144 KB (256 MB)
External Transfer Rate:
1200 MB/s
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF):
2,500,000 hours
Workload Rating:
550 TB/year
Seagate ST16000NM001G Hard Drives:
- ST16000NM001G, ZL2, TK, PN 2KK103-002, FW SN02, Seagate 16TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST16000NM001G 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 ST16000NM001G Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST16000NM001G 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 100833707, etc.