ST36811A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 6.4GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST36811A Seagate U8 6.4GB 5400RPM ATA-66 512KB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST36811A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST36811A Technical Details:
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
- Manufacturer Website: www.seagate.com
- Manufacturer Part No: ST36811A
- Product Series or Family: U8
- Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
- Storage Capacity: 6.4GB
- Spindle Speed: 5400RPM
- Drive Interface: IDE
- Form Factor: 3.5Inch
- Cache: 512KB
Seagate ST36811A Hard Drives:
- ST36811A, 6CS, SZ, PN 9P5005-032, FW 3.09, Seagate 6.4GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST36811A, 7CS, ML2, PN 9P5005-030, FW 3.13, Seagate 6.4GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST36811A 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 ST36811A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST36811A 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:
SG22580-300, etc.
