ST3160212A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3160212AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3160212AS 160 GB 3.5 Internal Hard Drive SATA/300 7200 rpm 2 MB Buffer.

All information about the Seagate ST3160212A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST3160212A Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST3160212A
• Disk Family: Barracuda 7200.9 160212
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 160 GB (160 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 1
• Number Of Heads: 2
• Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
• Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
• Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 2048 KB
• Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
• Depth: 146.99 mm (5.79 inch)
• Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
• Weight: 580 grams (1.28 pounds)
• Acoustic (Idle): 2.5 Bel
• Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
• Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.8 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 ST3160212A Hard Drives:

• ST3160212ACE, 5LS, WU, PN 9BE012-077, FW 3.ACQ, Seagate 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160212ACE, 9LS, TK, PN 9BE012-191, FW 3.ACF, Seagate 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160212A, 4LS, TK, PN 9BD012-500, FW 2AAA, Seagate 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160212A, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD012-304, FW 3.AAH, Seagate 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160212ACE, 9LS, TK, PN 9BE012-667, FW 3.ACB, Seagate 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160212A, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD012-500, FW 2AAA, Seagate 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160212A, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD012-520, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160212A, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD012-065, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160212A, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD012-301, FW 2AAA, Seagate 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160212A, 4LS, TK, PN 9BD012-520, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160212ACE, 5LS, WU, PN 9BE012-510, FW 3.ACB, Seagate 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST3160212A 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 ST3160212A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST3160212A 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:
100389148, etc.