ST980814AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST980814AS Seagate 80GB 5400RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST980814AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST980814AS Technical Details:

  • Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
  • Manufacturer Website: www.seagate.com
  • Manufacturer Part No: ST980814AS
  • Product Series or Family: Momentus 5400.3
  • Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
  • Storage Capacity: 80GB
  • Spindle Speed: 5400RPM
  • Drive Interface: SATA
  • Form Factor: 2.5Inch
  • Cache: 8MB

    Seagate ST980814AS Hard Drives:

    ST980814AS Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

    • ST980814AS, 5QY, WU, PN 9CV132-021, FW 3.CHD, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

    Seagate ST980814AS 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 ST980814AS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

    When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST980814AS 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:
    100455899, etc.