ST3300831AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3300831AS Seagate Barracuda 300GB 7200RPM SATA 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST3300831AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST3300831AS Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST3300831AS
• Disk Family: Barracuda 7200.8 SATA NCQ 300831
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 300 GB (300 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 3
• Number Of Heads: 6
• Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
• Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
• Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/150
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 150 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 8192 KB
• Average Seek Time: 8 ms
• Width: 101.85 mm (4.01 inch)
• Depth: 146.99 mm (5.79 inch)
• Height: 26.11 mm (1.03 inch)
• Weight: 635 grams (1.40 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 ST3300831AS Hard Drives:

• ST3300831AS, 5NF, WU, PN 9Y7384-020, FW 3.03, Seagate 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3300831AS, 4NF, TK, PN 9Y7384-301, FW 3.03, Seagate 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3300831AS, 3NF, AMK, PN 9Y7384-301, FW 3.01, Seagate 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3300831AS, 3NF, AMK, PN 9Y7384-301, FW 3.06, Seagate 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3300831AS, 3NF, AMK, PN 9Y7384-301, FW 3.02, Seagate 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3300831AS, 4NF, TK, PN 9Y7384-020, FW 3.03, Seagate 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3300831AS, 3NF, AMK, PN 9Y7384-500, FW 3.01, Seagate 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3300831AS, 9NF, TK, PN 9Y7384-301, FW 3.06, Seagate 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3300831AS, 5NF, WU, PN 9Y7384-301, FW 3.06, Seagate 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3300831AS, 3NF, AMK, PN 9Y7384-301, FW 3.03, Seagate 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3300831AS, 3NF, AMK, PN 9Y7384-020, FW 3.03, Seagate 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST3300831AS, 3NF, AMK, PN 9Y7384-501, FW 3.01, Seagate 300GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST3300831AS 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 ST3300831AS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST3300831AS 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:
100337233, etc.