ST9320328CS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST9320328CS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST9320328CS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Seagate ST9320328CS
- Disk Family: Pipeline HD Mini
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 320 GB (320 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300 (SATA-2 3.0Gbps)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB (8 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4.5 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 14.0 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1.5 ms
- Width: 69.8 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.5 mm (3.96 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 105 grams (0.23 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 1.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 1.9 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.1 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 5V (Peak 1.0A)
- Power Required (Seek): 1.5 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.7 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.2 W
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology LLC
Seagate ST9320328CS Hard Drives:
- ST9320328CS, 6VD, SU, PN 9SA13E-160, FW AC16, Seagate 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST9320328CS, 5VD, WU, PN 9SA13E-160, FW AC16, Seagate 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST9320328CS 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 ST9320328CS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST9320328CS 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:
100660535, 100536286, etc.