ST9120822A Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST9120822AS Seagate Momentus 120GB 5400RPM SERIAL ATA-150 (SATA) 2.5-inch 8MB Cache Internal H.

All information about the Seagate ST9120822A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST9120822A Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST9120822A
  • Disk Family: Momentus 5400.3 120822
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 120 GB (120 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 3
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Ultra-ATA/100
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 100 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 12.5 ms
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 102 grams (0.22 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.3 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1200 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 2.4 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 1.2 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.36 W
  • Manufacturer: Seagate Technology

Seagate ST9120822A Hard Drives:

ST9120822A Seagate 120GB IDE 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • Seagate ST9120822AS, 5400RPM, 1.5Gp/s, 120GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
  • ST9120822AS, 5RM, WU, PN 9S1133-042, FW 3.CAE, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1133-030, FW 3.CDD, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1133-020, FW 3.BHD, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1133-022, FW 3.BHE, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1133-032, FW 3.CDE, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1133-308, FW 3.ALC, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1133-508, FW 3.ALC, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1133-506, FW 3.ALB, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1133-566, FW 3.AXC, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822A, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1033-506, FW 3.ALC, Seagate 120GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5MA, WU, PN 9S1133-508, FW 3.ALC, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1133-142, FW 3.ALC, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1133-188, FW 3.ALC, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822A, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1033-508, FW 3.ALD, Seagate 120GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5MA, WU, PN 9S1133-022, FW 3.BHE, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5MA, WU, PN 9S1133-031, FW 3.CDE, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1133-190, FW 3.ALD, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9120822AS, 5LZ, WU, PN 9S1133-070, FW 3.CLF, Seagate 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST9120822A 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 ST9120822A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST9120822A 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:
100390531, 100398689, etc.