ST380012A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST380012A Seagate 80GB 7200RPM EIDE Internal DMA/ATA-100 Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST380012A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST380012A Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST380012A
- Disk Family: U Series 9 80012
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 80 GB (80 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: 1024 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 10 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 146.99 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.035 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 635 grams (1.40 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 ST380012A Hard Drives:
- ST380012ACE, 4JV, TK, PN 9W6022-680, FW 9.01, Seagate 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST380012ACE, 5JV, WU, PN 9W6022-680, FW 9.01, Seagate 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST380012A, 5JV, WU, PN 9W6002-030, FW 4.06, Seagate 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST380012A, 3HV, AMK, PN 9T6006-040, FW 5.05, Seagate 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST380012A, 5JV, WU, PN 9W6002-004, FW 4.04, Seagate 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST380012A, 3JV, AMK, PN 9W6002-030, FW 4.06, Seagate 80GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST380012A 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 ST380012A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST380012A 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:
100306042, 100277699, 100277705, etc.