ST318406LC Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 18GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST318406LC Seagate Cheetah 18.35GB 10000RPM 80-Pin Ultra-160 SCSI 4MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST318406LC hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST318406LC Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST318406LC
- Disk Family: Cheetah 36ES 18406
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 18.4 GB (18.4 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 10020 RPM
- Rotation Time: 5.99 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 2.99 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra160 SCSI
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 160 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 4096 KB
- Average Seek Time: 5.2 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.5 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 6.3 ms
- Width: 101.9 mm (4.01 inch)
- Depth: 146.7 mm (5.78 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 810 grams (1.79 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 ST318406LC Hard Drives:
- ST318406LC, 3FE, PN 9U3001-044, FW 8A03, Seagate 18GB SCSI 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST318406LC 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 ST318406LC Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST318406LC 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:
100174724-C, etc.