ST340014A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST340014AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 40GB 7200RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST340014A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST340014A Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST340014A
  • Disk Family: Barracuda 7200.7 40014
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 40 GB (40 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 1
  • 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: 2048 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 10 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
  • Width: 101.85 mm (4.01 inch)
  • Depth: 146.56 mm (5.77 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 544 grams (1.20 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 ST340014A Hard Drives:

ST340014A Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST340014AS, 5MQ, WU, PN 9W2015-133, FW 8.12, Seagate 40GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 5JX, WU, PN 9W2005-006, FW 8.01, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 5JX, WU, PN 9W2005-076, FW 3.10, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 5JX, WU, PN 9W2005-001, FW 3.04, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 4JX, TK, PN 9W2005-006, FW 8.01, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 5JX, WU, PN 9W2005-030, FW 3.06, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 5JX, WU, PN 9W2005-301, FW 3.06, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 3JX, AMK, PN 9W2005-006, FW 8.01, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014AS, 4MQ, TK, PN 9W2015-630, FW 3.43, Seagate 40GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 5JV, WU, PN 9W2005-365, FW 8.54, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 5JX, WU, PN 9W2005-031, FW 8.01, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014AS, 5MQ, WU, PN 9W2015-131, FW 3.43, Seagate 40GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014AS, 5JX, WU, PN 9W2015-130, FW 3.20, Seagate 40GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 3JX, AMK, PN 9W2005-031, FW 8.01, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014AS, 4MQ, TK, PN 9W2015-131, FW 3.43, Seagate 40GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014AS, 5MQ, WU, PN 9W2015-630, FW 3.43, Seagate 40GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 3JX, AMK, PN 9W2005-311, FW 3.06, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 5JX, WU, PN 9W2005-004, FW 3.04, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 5JX, WU, PN 9W2005-372, FW 8.01, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 5JX, WU, PN 9W2005-002, FW 3.06, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014AS, 5MQ, WU, PN 9W2015-633, FW 8.12, Seagate 40GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 3JX, AMK, PN 9W2005-033, FW 8.16, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 5JX, WU, PN 9W2005-176, FW 8.10, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014A, 5JX, WU, PN 9W2005-033, FW 8.16, Seagate 40GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST340014AS, 3JX, AMK, PN 9W2015-130, FW 3.20, Seagate 40GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST340014A 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 ST340014A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST340014A 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:
100306336, 100331803, 100255564, 100277705, 100277699, 100291893, 100306042, etc.