Seagate ST3160812A

ST3160812A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3160812AS Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST3160812A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST3160812A Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST3160812A
• Disk Family: Barracuda 7200.9 160812
• 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: 8192 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 ST3160812A Hard Drives:

• Seagate ST3160812AS, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 160GB SATA 3.5″ HDD
• ST3160812AS, 9LS, TK, PN 9BD132-034, FW 3.ADJ, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 4LS, TK, PN 9BD132-188, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD132-034, FW 3.ADJ, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD132-621, FW 3.AHL, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 4LS, TK, PN 9BD132-041, FW 3.BQH, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 4LS, TK, PN 9BD132-620, FW 3.AHH, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 4LS, TK, PN 9BD132-033, FW 3.ADH, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 5LS, PN 9BD132-783, FW 3.AJJ, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 9LS, TK, PN 9BD132-033, FW 3.ADH, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD132-303, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD132-188, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 9LS, TK, PN 9BD132-020, FW 3.AHH, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812A, 4LS, TK, PN 9BD032-304, FW 3.AAH, Seagate 160GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 9LS, TK, PN 9BD132-621, FW 3.AHL, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 4LS, TK, PN 9BD132-302, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD132-276, FW 3.AAH, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD132-021, FW 3.AHL, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD132-520, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 4LS, TK, PN 9BD132-304, FW 3.AAH, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 9LS, TK, PN 9BD132-042, FW 3.BQK, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 4LS, TK, PN 9BD132-020, FW 3.AHH, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD132-020, FW 3.AHH, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 5LS, WU, PN 9BD132-301, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3160812AS, 9LS, TK, PN 9BD132-041, FW 3.BQH, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST3160812A 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 ST3160812A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST3160812A 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:
100355589, 100356856, 100387574, 100387575, etc.