ST36811A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 6.4GB and featuring an IDE interface.
All information about the Seagate ST36811A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST36811A Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Seagate ST36811A
- Disk Family: Medalist Pro 6.4
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 6.8 GB (6 800 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Ultra ATA/33 (ATA-4)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 33 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 512 KB (512 KB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 10.0 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 9.5 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1.5 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 146.1 mm (5.75 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 590 grams (1.30 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 3.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.6 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 2.0A)
- Power Required (Seek): 7.2 W
- Power Required (Idle): 4.5 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1.0 W
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology LLC
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.