ST91000430AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST91000430AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST91000430AS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Seagate FreePlay (ST91000430AS)
- Disk Family: FreePlay Series (Momentus / BarraCuda 2.5 Alternative)
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,000,000,000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300 (SATA II 3.0 Gb/s)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/second
- Buffer Size: 32 MB
- Number of Disks (Platters): 3
- Number of Heads: 6
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.35 mm (3.95 inch)
- Height: 12.5 mm (0.49 inch Thick)
- Weight: 147 grams (0.32 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
Seagate ST91000430AS Hard Drives:
- ST91000430AS, 9YE, TK, PN 9TY146-550, FW CC9C, Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST91000430AS, 9YE, TK, PN 9TY146-550, FW CC97, Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST91000430AS, 9YE, TK, PN 9TY146-550, FW CC94, Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST91000430AS, 9YE, TK, PN 9TY146-550, FW CC9D, Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST91000430AS, 9YE, TK, PN 9TY146-550, FW CC9B, Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST91000430AS 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 ST91000430AS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST91000430AS 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:
100570750, etc.