ST96815A Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring an IDE interface.
All information about the Seagate ST96815A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST96815A Technical Details:
- Disk Family: Momentus
- Type: HDD
- Purpose: laptop
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Storage Capacity: 60 GB
- Buffer memory: 8 MB
- The number of heads: 2
- Number of plates: 1
- Speed of rotation: 5400 rpm
- Disk Interface: IDE
- External data transfer rate: 100 MB/s
- Average access time, reading: 12.5 MS
- Average access time, record: 14.5 MS
- Shock resistance at work: 225 G
- Shock resistance during storage: 800 G
- Noise idle: 24 dB
- Operating noise level: 29 dB
- Dimensions (WxHxL): 70×9.5×100 mm
- Weight: 95 g
Seagate ST96815A Hard Drives:
- Seagate 60 GB IDE PATA Interface 5400 RPM 2.5″ ST960815A Hard Drive HDD
Seagate ST96815A 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 ST96815A Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST96815A 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:
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