ST96812A Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST96812AS Seagate Momentus 60GB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 2.5I Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST96812A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST96812A Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST96812A
• Disk Family: Momentus 5400.2 120GB 6812
• Form Factor: 2.5″
• Capacity: 60 GB (60 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 1
• Number Of Heads: 2
• 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: 8192 KB
• Average Seek Time: 12.5 ms
• Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
• Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
• Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 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 ST96812A Hard Drives:

• ST96812AS, 5PJ, WU, PN 9W3182-040, FW 7.01, Seagate 60GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST96812AS, 5PJ, WU, PN 9W3182-022, FW 7.24, Seagate 60GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST96812AS, 5PJ, WU, PN 9W3182-032, FW 8.04, Seagate 60GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST96812AS, 5PJ, WU, PN 9W3182-141, FW 3.14, Seagate 60GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST96812AS, 3PJ, AMK, PN 9W3182-022, FW 7.24, Seagate 60GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST96812AS, 3PJ, AMK, PN 9W3182-030, FW 8.03, Seagate 60GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST96812AS, 5PJ, WU, PN 9W3182-030, FW 8.03, Seagate 60GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• Seagate ST96812AS, 5400RPM, 1.5Gp/s, 60GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
• ST96812AS, 3PJ, AMK, PN 9W3182-141, FW 3.14, Seagate 60GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST96812AS, 5PJ, WU, PN 9W3182-031, FW 8.04, Seagate 60GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST96812AS, 3PJ, AMK, PN 9W3182-040, FW 7.01, Seagate 60GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST96812AS, 5PJ, WU, PN 9W3182-189, FW 3.06, Seagate 60GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST96812A, 5PJ, WU, PN 9W3882-502, FW 3.04, Seagate 60GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST96812A, 5PJ, WU, PN 9W3882-560, FW 3.06, Seagate 60GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST96812A, 5PJ, WU, PN 9W3882-020, FW 3.05, Seagate 60GB IDE 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST96812A 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 ST96812A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST96812A 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:
100397877, 100349359, etc.