Seagate ST9600205SS 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 600GB and featuring a SAS interface.
All information about the Seagate ST9600205SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD PCB repair and recommended retailers.
Seagate ST9600205SS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST9600205SS
- Disk Family: Savvio 10K.5 600205
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 600 GB (600 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 10000 RPM
- Rotation Time: 6.00 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 3.00 ms
- Disk Interface: SAS
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 65536 KB
- Average Seek Time: 3.4 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.2 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 7.1 ms
- Width: 70.1 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100.45 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 15 mm (0.59 inch)
- Weight: 215 grams (0.47 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 ST9600205SS Hard Drives:
- ST9600205SS, 6XR, AVCCAL, PN 9TG066-002, FW 0002, Seagate 600GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST9600205SS 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 ST9600205SS HDD PCB Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST9600205SS 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 100617020 REV A, etc.
