ST9888430AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 888GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST9888430AS Seagate Freeplay 888GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST9888430AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST9888430AS Technical Details:

  • Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
  • Manufacturer Website: www.seagate.com
  • Manufacturer Part No: ST9888430AS
  • Product Series or Family: Freeplay
  • Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
  • Storage Capacity: 888GB
  • Spindle Speed: 5000RPM
  • Drive Interface: SATA-I
  • Form Factor: 3.5Inch

Seagate ST9888430AS Hard Drives:

ST9888430AS Seagate 888GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST9888430AS, 9YE, TK, PN 9TY14Y-550, FW CC94, Seagate 888GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST9888430AS, 9YE, TK, PN 9TY14Y-550, FW CC98, Seagate 888GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST9888430AS 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 ST9888430AS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST9888430AS 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:
100570750, etc.