ST3000VX010 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 3TB and featuring a SATA interface.

All information about the Seagate ST3000VX010 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD PCB repair and recommended retailers.

Seagate ST3000VX010

Seagate ST3000VX010 Technical Details:

  • Seagate Model: ST3000VX010
  • Capacity: 3TB
  • Speed: 7.2K RPM
  • Interface Types: SATA
  • Form Factor: 3.5″ LFF Hard Drive
  • Sector Size: 4Kn
  • Sustained Throughput: 180
  • Electrical Interface: SATA 600 – 6Gbps
  • On-Board Cache: 64MB
  • RAM: 64MB

Seagate ST3000VX010 Hard Drives:

  • Seagate SkyHawk ST3000VX010 3TB 3.5in 6Gbps 7.2K RPM Serial ATA / SATA Surveillance HDD

Seagate ST3000VX010 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 ST3000VX010 HDD PCB Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST3000VX010 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 “PCB Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number”.

Multiple PCB Number revisions:
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