ST33232A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 3.2GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST33232A Seagate Medalist ST33232A 3.23 GB 3.5 Internal Hard Drive IDE Ultra ATA/33 (ATA-4) 4500 rpm 128 KB Buffer.
All information about the Seagate ST33232A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST33232A Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST33232A
- Disk Family: Medalist 3232
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 3227 MB (3227 x 1 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 3
- Number Of Heads: 6
- Rotational Speed: 4500 RPM
- Rotation Time: 13.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 6.67 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/33
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 33.3 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 128 KB
- Average Seek Time: 12 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 21.5 ms
- Width: 102.4 mm (4.03 inch)
- Depth: 146.8 mm (5.78 inch)
- Height: 26.2 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 540 grams (1.19 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 ST33232A Hard Drives:
- ST33232A, GH7, SZ, PN 9J7012-031, FW 0.43, Seagate 3.2GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST33232A, VH5, ML2, PN 9J7012-031, FW 0.43, Seagate 3.2GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST33232A 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 ST33232A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST33232A 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:
24000851-006, A, 24000851-005, A, etc.