ST3500630AV Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500 GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3500630AV SEAGATE 3.5″ 500 GB Ultra-ATA/100 SV35 7200.2 500630 7200 RPM Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST3500630AV hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST3500630AV Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST3500630AV
  • Disk Family: SV35 7200.2 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): 9 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 17 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 0.8 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (3.98 inch)
  • Depth: 146.99 mm (5.75 inch)
  • Height: 26.11 mm (1.02 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 ST3500630AV Hard Drives:

SeagateST3500630AV500 GBIDE3.5

  • ST3500630AV SEAGATE 3.5″ 500 GB Ultra-ATA/100 SV35 7200.2 500630 7200 RPM Hard Drive.

Seagate ST3500630AV 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 ST3500630AV Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST3500630AV hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as 100406538, etc.