ST3300657SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SAS interface. ST3300657SS-H Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 300GB 15000RPM SAS 6.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST3300657SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST3300657SS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST3300657SS
  • Disk Family: Cheetah 15K.7 300657
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 300 GB (300 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 4
  • Rotational Speed: 15000 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 4.00 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 2.00 ms
  • Disk Interface: SAS
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 3.4 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 0.2 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 146.52 mm (5.77 inch)
  • Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
  • Weight: 671 grams (1.48 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 ST3300657SS Hard Drives:

ST3300657SS Seagate 300GB SAS 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Seagate ST3300657SS, 15000RPM, 6.0Gp/s, 300GB SAS 3.5″ HDD
  • ST3300657SS, 3SJ, AMKSPR, PN 9FL066-002, FW 0005, Seagate 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, SUZHSG, PN 9FL066-003, FW 0006, Seagate 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 3SJ, AMKSPR, PN 9FL066-003, FW 0006, Seagate 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, SUZHSG, PN 9FL066-008, FW 0008, Seagate 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, CN, PN 9FL066-150, FW ES64, Dell 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, PN 9FL066-035, FW HPD6, HP 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, SUZHSG, PN 9FL066-009, FW 000B, Seagate 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 3SJ, PN 9FL066-150, FW ES62, Dell 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, PN 9FL066-032, FW HPS1, HP 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, PN 9FL066-048, FW EH02, Dell 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 3SJ, PN 9FL066-035, FW HPD2, HP 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, PN 9FL066-035, FW HPD5, HP 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, PN 9FL066-042, FW 1713, Seagate 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, PN 9FL066-039, FW BA58, IBM 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, SUZHSG, PN 9FL066-150, FW ES65, Dell 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, SUZHSG, PN 9FL066-150, FW ES66, Dell 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SL, PN 9FN066-076, FW 0008, Seagate 600GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST3300657SS, 6SJ, PN 9FL066-150, FW ES64, Dell 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST3300657SS 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 ST3300657SS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST3300657SS 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:
100549571, etc.