Seagate STM31000340AS 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate STM31000340AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD PCB repair and recommended retailers.
Seagate STM31000340AS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: MAXTOR STM31000340AS
- Disk Family: DiamondMax 22 1000340
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 1 TB (1 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 4
- Number Of Heads: 8
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 32768 KB
- Width: 101.6 mm (3.98 inch)
- Depth: 146.99 mm (5.75 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.02 inch)
- Weight: 640 grams (1.41 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 3.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.2 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 2800 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 12.4 W
- Power Required (Idle): 8.90 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.80 W
- Manufacturer: Seagate Corporation
Seagate STM31000340AS Hard Drives:
- STM31000340AS, 9QJ, KRATSG, PN 9GT158-335, FW MX15, Maxtor 1TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate STM31000340AS 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 STM31000340AS HDD PCB Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate STM31000340AS hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as 100466824 REV B, etc.
