ST92011A Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST92011A Seagate 20GB 5400RPM IDE/EIDE Laptop 2MB Cache DMA/ATA-100 (ULTRA) 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST92011A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST92011A Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST92011A
• Disk Family: Momentus 2011
• Form Factor: 2.5″
• Capacity: 20 GB (20 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 1
• Number Of Heads: 1
• 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: 2048 KB
• Average Seek Time: 12 ms
• Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
• Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
• Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
• Weight: 99 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 ST92011A Hard Drives:

• ST92011A, 3KV, AMK, PN 9Y1001-004, FW 3.04, Seagate 20GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST92011A, 3KW, AMK, PN 9Y1001-008, FW 3.05, Seagate 20GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST92011A, 3KV, AMK, PN 9Y1001-008, FW 3.05, Seagate 20GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST92011A 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 ST92011A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST92011A 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:
100278186, etc.