ST920217AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST920217AS Seagate LD25 20 GB 2.5 Internal Hard Drive SATA/150 5400 rpm 2 MB Buffer.
All information about the Seagate ST920217AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST920217AS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST920217AS
- Disk Family: LD25 20217
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 20 GB (20 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/150
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 150 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 2048 KB
- Average Seek Time: 16 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.51 mm (3.96 inch)
- Height: 5.0 mm (0.20 inch)
- Weight: 100 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 ST920217AS Hard Drives:
- Seagate ST920217AS 20GB SATA/150 5400RPM 2MB 2.5" Hard Drive
- ST920217AS, 5NT, WU, PN 9AP111-140, FW 3.01, Seagate 20GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST920217AS, 5PW, WU, PN 9AP111-121, FW 3.01, Seagate 20GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST920217AS, 5NT, WU, PN 9AP111-120, FW 3.01, Seagate 20GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST920217AS, 3PW, AMK, PN 9AP111-121, FW 3.01, Seagate 20GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST920217AS 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 ST920217AS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST920217AS 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:
100356818, etc.