ST9160412ASG Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST9160412ASG hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD PCB repair and recommended retailers.
Seagate ST9160412ASG Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST9160412ASG
- Disk Family: Momentus 7200.4 160412
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 160 GB (160 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: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.72 inch)
- Depth: 100.35 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.35 inch)
- Weight: 105 grams (0.23 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 ST9160412ASG Hard Drives:
- ST9160412ASG SEAGATE 2.5″ 160 GB Serial-ATA/300 Momentus 7200.4 160412 7200 RPM Hard Drive.
Seagate ST9160412ASG 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 ST9160412ASG HDD PCB Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST9160412ASG hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as 100535597, 100513573, 100536286, etc.
