ST3500641A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3500641AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gbps 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST3500641A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST3500641A Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST3500641A
- Disk Family: Barracuda 7200.9 500641
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 4
- Number Of Heads: 8
- 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
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 146.99 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 690 grams (1.52 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 ST3500641A Hard Drives:
- ST3500641AS, 3PM, AMK, PN 9BD148-040, FW 3.BTA, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500641AS, 3PM, AMK, PN 9BD148-034, FW 3.ADJ, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500641AS, 3PM, AMK, PN 9BD148-303, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500641AS, 3PM, AMK, PN 9BD148-560, FW 3.AAE, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500641A, 3PM, AMK, PN 9BD048-560, FW 3.AAH, Seagate 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500641AS, 3PM, AMK, PN 9BD148-304, FW 3.AAJ, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500641AS, 3PM, PN 9BD148-783, FW 3.AJJ, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500641AS, 3PM, AMK, PN 9BD148-783, FW 3.AJJ, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500641AS, 3PM, AMK, PN 9BD148-620, FW 3.AHH, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500641AS, 3PM, AMK, PN 9BD148-269, FW 3.AGK, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500641AS, 3PM, AMK, PN 9BD148-042, FW 3.BTD, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST3500641AS, 3PM, AMK, PN 9BD148-033, FW 3.ADG, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST3500641A 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 ST3500641A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST3500641A 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:
100383767, 100383395, etc.