Seagate ST98823AS

ST98823AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST98823AS Seagate 80GB 5400RPM SERIAL ATA-150 (SATA) Laptop 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST98823AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST98823AS Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST98823AS
• Disk Family: Momentus 5400.2 120GB 8823
• Form Factor: 2.5″
• Capacity: 80 GB (80 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 2
• Number Of Heads: 3
• Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
• Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
• Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/150
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 150 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 8192 KB
• Average Seek Time: 12.5 ms
• Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
• Depth: 100.5 mm (3.96 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 ST98823AS Hard Drives:

• ST98823AS, 5PK, WU, PN 9W3183-141, FW 3.14, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST98823AS, 5PK, WU, PN 9W3183-022, FW 7.24, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST98823AS, 3PK, AMK, PN 9W3183-030, FW 8.03, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST98823AS, 3PK, AMK, PN 9W3183-040, FW 7.01, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST98823AS, 3PL, AMK, PN 9W3183-502, FW 3.04, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST98823AS, 5PK, WU, PN 9W3183-188, FW 3.06, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST98823AS, 5PK, WU, PN 9W3183-501, FW 3.03, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST98823AS, 3PK, AMK, PN 9W3183-022, FW 7.24, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST98823AS, 3PK, AMK, PN 9W3183-303, FW 3.06, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST98823AS, 5PK, WU, PN 9W3183-040, FW 7.01, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST98823AS, 5PK, WU, PN 9W3183-030, FW 8.03, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST98823AS, 5PK, WU, PN 9W3183-032, FW 8.04, Seagate 80GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST98823AS 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 ST98823AS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST98823AS 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.