Seagate ST31000340SV 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1 TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST31000340SV hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST31000340SV Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST31000340SV
- Disk Family: SV35.3 1000340
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 1 TB (1 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 4
- Number Of Heads: 8
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 32768 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 16 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 14 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (3.98 inch)
- Depth: 146.99 mm (5.75 inch)
- Height: 26.11 mm (1.02 inch)
- Weight: 665 grams (1.47 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.7 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.9 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 2800 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 12.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 7.20 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.80 W
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
Seagate ST31000340SV Hard Drives:
- ST31000340SV, 9QJ, KRATSG, PN 9DM158-501, FW SV16, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST31000340SV 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 ST31000340SV Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST31000340SV 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 100466824 REV C, 100466824 REV B, etc.