ST973451SS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 73GB and featuring a SAS interface. ST973451SS Seagate Savvio 73GB 15000RPM SAS 3GB/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST973451SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST973451SS Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST973451SS
  • Disk Family: Savvio 15K 73451
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 73.4 GB (73.4 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 2
  • Number Of Heads: 4
  • Rotational Speed: 15000 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 4.00 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 2.00 ms
  • Disk Interface: SAS
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Average Seek Time: 2.9 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 0.2 ms
  • Width: 70.1 mm (2.76 inch)
  • Depth: 100.2 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 14.8 mm (0.58 inch)
  • Weight: 210 grams (0.46 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 ST973451SS Hard Drives:

ST973451SS Seagate 73GB SAS 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST973451SS, 3PD, PN 9MB066-042, FW SM04, Dell 72GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • Seagate ST973451SS, 15000RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 73GB SAS 2.5″ HDD
  • ST973451SS, 3PD, AMKSPR, PN 9MB066-035, FW HPD9, HP 72GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST973451SS, 3PD, PN 9MB066-033, FW HPD4, HP 72GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST973451SS, 3PD, PN 9MB066-033, FW HPD7, HP 72GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST973451SS, 3PD, PN 9MB066-042, FW SM04, Seagate 73GB SAS 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST973451SS 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 ST973451SS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST973451SS 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:
100419609, etc.