ST31000342AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. Seagate ST31000342AS 1TB 7.2K SATA 3.5″ 32MB Cache Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST31000342AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST31000342AS Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
- Manufacturer Website: www.seagate.com
- Manufacturer Part No: ST31000342AS
- Product Series or Family: Barracuda 7200.11
- Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
- Storage Capacity: 1TB
- Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
- Drive Interface: SATA
- Form Factor: 3.5Inch
- Cache: 32MB
Seagate ST31000342AS Hard Drives:
- ST31000342AS, 9QJ, KRATSG, PN 9HX158-040, FW AP52, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST31000342AS 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 ST31000342AS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST31000342AS 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:
100524528, etc.
