ST31000524AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST31000524AS Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s Internal 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST31000524AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST31000524AS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST31000524AS
  • Disk Family: Barracuda 7200.12 1000524
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 1 TB (1 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 4
  • Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 32768 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 10 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 146.99 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 622 grams (1.37 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 ST31000524AS Hard Drives:

ST31000524AS Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 1TB SATA Hard Drive ST31000524AS 32MB Cache Bulk/OEM 7200 RPM Desktop
  • ST31000524AS, 6VP, SU, PN 9YP154-022, FW HP64, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 5VP, WU, PN 9YP154-521, FW JC4A, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 5VP, WU, PN 9YP154-304, FW JC4B, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 6VP, SU, PN 9YP154-021, FW HP63, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 9VP, TK, PN 9YP154-303, FW JC45, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 9VP, TK, PN 9YP154-516, FW JC45, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 9VP, TK, PN 9YP154-021, FW HP63, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 6VP, SU, PN 9YP154-516, FW JC45, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 9VP, TK, PN 9YP154-521, FW JC4A, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 5VP, WU, PN 9YP154-303, FW JC45, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 5VP, SU, PN 9YP154-022, FW HP64, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 5VP, WU, PN 9YP154-021, FW HP63, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 6VP, SU, PN 9YP154-543, FW JC66, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 9VP, SU, PN 9YP154-516, FW JC45, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 5VP, SU, PN 9YP154-303, FW JC45, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 5VP, WU, PN 9YP154-519, FW JC47, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 5VP, SU, PN 9YP154-021, FW HP63, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 6VP, SU, PN 9YP154-304, FW JC4B, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 5VP, SU, PN 9YP154-516, FW JC45, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 9VP, TK, PN 9YP154-543, FW JC66, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 9VP, TK, PN 9YP154-520, FW JC49, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 9VP, TK, PN 9YP154-519, FW JC47, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 6VP, SU, PN 9YP154-020, FW HP61, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST31000524AS, 6VP, SU, PN 9YP154-303, FW JC45, Seagate 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST31000524AS 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 ST31000524AS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST31000524AS 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:
100650117, 100536501, 100535537, 100574451, etc.