ST16000VN001 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 16TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST16000VN001 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST16000VN001 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Seagate IronWolf (ST16000VN001)
- Disk Family: IronWolf NAS Series
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 16 TB (16,000,000,000,000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600 (SATA III 6.0 Gb/s)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/second
- Buffer Size: 256 MB (262144 KB)
- Number of Disks (Platters): 9 (Helium-sealed)
- Number of Heads: 18
- Width: 101.85 mm (4.01 inch)
- Depth: 146.99 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.11 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 670 grams (1.48 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
Seagate ST16000VN001 Hard Drives:
- ST16000VN001, ZL2, AVCCAL, PN 2RV103-500, FW SC61, Seagate 16TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST16000VN001, ZL2, TK, PN 2RV103-500, FW SC61, Seagate 16TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST16000VN001 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 ST16000VN001 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST16000VN001 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:
100833707, etc.