ST3500630A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3500630A Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB 7200RPM ATA-100 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST3500630A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST3500630A Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST3500630A
- Disk Family: Barracuda 7200.10 500630
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 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: Ultra-ATA/100
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 15 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.8 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 146.99 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 635 grams (1.40 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.1 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.3 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.3 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 2000 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 5.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 4.50 W
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
Seagate ST3500630A Hard Drives:
- Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 500GB SATA Hard Drive ST3500630AS 16MB Cache Bulk/OEM 7200 RPM Desktop
- ST3500630AS, 6QG, SU, PN 9BJ146-308, FW 3.AAK, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 6QG, SU, PN 9BJ146-622, FW 3.CHN, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ146-622, FW 3.CHN, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ146-033, FW 3.ADG, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ146-505, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ146-621, FW 3.AHG, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 6QG, SU, PN 9BJ146-505, FW 3.AAD, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 6QG, SU, PN 9BJ146-568, FW 3.AFM, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ146-622, FW 3.CHL, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ146-044, FW 3.BTH, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ146-305, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ146-033, FW 3.ADG, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ146-308, FW 3.AAK, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 9QG, SU, PN 9BJ146-568, FW 3.AFM, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 6QG, SU, PN 9BJ146-561, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ146-034, FW 3.ADG, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 9QG, TK, PN 9BJ146-306, FW 3.AAG, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AV, 6QG, SU, PN 9DC046-501, FW 3.ACH, Seagate 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ146-568, FW 3.AFM, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ146-022, FW 3.CHN, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 6QG, SU, PN 9BJ146-305, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 5QG, WU, PN 9BJ146-035, FW 3.ADJ, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 6QG, SU, PN 9BJ146-500, FW 3.AAC, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500630AS, 3QG, AMK, PN 9BJ146-300, FW 3.AAC, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST3500630A 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 ST3500630A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST3500630A 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:
100355589, 100435196, 100406538, 100406533, etc.