ST3450856SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 450GB and featuring a SAS interface. ST3450856SS Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 450GB 15000RPM SAS 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST3450856SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST3450856SS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST3450856SS
- Disk Family: Cheetah 15K.6 450856
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 450 GB (450 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 4
- Number Of Heads: 8
- Rotational Speed: 15000 RPM
- Rotation Time: 4.00 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 2.00 ms
- Disk Interface: SAS
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 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: 146.05 mm (5.75 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 709 grams (1.56 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 ST3450856SS Hard Drives:
- ST3450856SS, 3QQ, PN 9CL066-050, FW HS09, Dell 450GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3450856SS, 3QQ, PN 9CL066-035, FW HPD5, HP 450GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3450856SS, 3QQ, SG, PN 9CL066-039, FW EC59, IBM 450GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3450856SS, 3QQ, SG, PN 9CL066-039, FW BA97, IBM 450GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3450856SS, 3QQ, PN 9CL066-031, FW HS01, Seagate 450GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3450856SS, 3QQ, AMKSPR, PN 9CL066-883, FW 0004, Seagate 450GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3450856SS, 3QQ, AMKSPR, PN 9CL066-036, FW 4C53, Seagate 450GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3450856SS, 3QQ, PN 9CL066-031, FW B021, Seagate 450GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3450856SS, 3QQ, PN 9CL066-045, FW 081C, Seagate 450GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3450856SS, 3QQ, PN 9CL066-035, FW HPD4, HP 450GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3450856SS, 3QQ, PN 9CL066-031, FW HS08, Seagate 450GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST3450856SS 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 ST3450856SS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST3450856SS 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:
100480689, 100507792, etc.