ST360015A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST360015A Seagate 60GB 7200RPM EIDE 2MB Cache Ultra-DMA Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST360015A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST360015A Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST360015A
• Disk Family: Barracuda ATA V 60015
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 60 GB (60 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 1
• Number Of Heads: 2
• 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: 9 ms
• Track To Track Seek Time: 1 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 ST360015A Hard Drives:

• ST360015A, 3KC, AMK, PN 9W4003-041, FW 3.31, Seagate 60GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST360015A, 3KC, AMK, PN 9W4003-032, FW 3.33, Seagate 60GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST360015A, 3KC, AMK, PN 9W4003-042, FW 3.31, Seagate 60GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST360015A, 3KC, AMK, PN 9W4003-040, FW 3.31, Seagate 60GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST360015A, 3KC, AMK, PN 9W4003-301, FW 3.33, Seagate 60GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST360015A, 3KC, AMK, PN 9W4003-001, FW 3.30, Seagate 60GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST360015A, 3KC, AMK, PN 9W4003-004, FW 3.33, Seagate 60GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST360015A, 3KC, AMK, PN 9W4003-301, FW 3.33, Western Digital 60GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST360015A, 5KB, WU, PN 9W4003-302, FW 3.53, Seagate 60GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST360015A 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 ST360015A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST360015A 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:
100234602, 100234697, etc.