ST310014ACE Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 10GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST310014ACE Seagate 10.2GB 5400RPM ATA-100 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST310014ACE hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST310014ACE Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST310014ACE
• Disk Family: U Series X 10014
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 10 GB (10 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 1
• Number Of Heads: 1
• Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
• Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
• Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 2048 KB
• Average Seek Time: 12.7 ms
• Width: 101.9 mm (4.01 inch)
• Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
• Height: 19.99 mm (0.79 inch)
• Weight: 455 grams (1.00 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 ST310014ACE Hard Drives:

• ST310014ACE, 5JR, WU, PN 9W1001-280, FW 3.09, Seagate 10GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST310014ACE 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 ST310014ACE Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST310014ACE 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:
100535537, etc.