Seagate Data Recovery

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Seagate hard drives are good hard disk drives, and for the most part they are the only drives we run in our servers here at ACS Data Recovery. However, even Seagate drives can and will fail. Unfortunately one of the most common problems we see with Seagate drives is not the drive itself failing, but the drive suffering physical damage due to mishandling by the client. Around half of the Seagate hard drives we get in for recovery have spindle motor seizures, and in nearly every one of these cases the drive was either dropped, knocked over or bumped. The spindle shafts of these drives are extremely fragile, and the result is that the shaft the platters are mounted on can no longer rotate. At this point the only way to get the data recovered is through a platter swap.

Swapping heads on a hard drive is hard enough and is not an easy job even for professionals; swapping platters is exponentially more difficult. Not only are you moving the heads, but you are also moving a stack of platters where the alignment of each in relation to the others is absolutely critical. Not only do you have to maintain the vertical axis alignments but also the horizontal axis alignments. With only microns of tolerance, there is absolutely no room for error. We can recover data from Seagate hard drives with seized spindle motors, and we have the tools and expertise needed to swap platters if needed. We can recover data on any type of Seagate hard drive including those listed below:

• Seagate U Series X ST320014A 20GB 5400 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST340014A 40GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3802110A 80GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380011A 80GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380817AS 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3808110AS 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
• Seagate Momentus 5400.2 ST94813A 40GB 5400 RPM Notebook Hard Drive
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3160212A 160GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3120814A 120GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3160021A 160GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3160023A 160GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate ST1 Series 9AF462-550 5GB 3600 RPM External Hard Drive
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3160812A 160GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA NCQ ST3120827AS 120GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3120026A 120GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3120813AS 120GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3200826A 200GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3200822A 200GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3200826AS 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823A 250GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3200822A-RK 200GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate ST940801U2-RK 40GB 5400 RPM External Hard Drive
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831A 300GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate ST3160026A-RK 160GB 7200 RPM External Hard Drive
• Seagate Momentus 5400.2 ST9100824A 100GB 5400 RPM Notebook Hard Drive
• Seagate ST3160024A-RK 160GB 7200 RPM External Hard Drive
• Seagate ST3200823A-RK 200GB 7200 RPM External Hard Drive
• Seagate ST3300801CB-RK 300GB 7200 RPM External Hard Drive
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3400832AS 400GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive with NCQ
• Seagate Momentus 5400.2 ST9120821AS 120GB 5400 RPM Notebook Hard Drive
• Seagate ST3400801CB-RK 400GB 7200 RPM External Hard Drive
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3500641AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3500641A 500GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 ST3146854LW 147GB 15,000 RPM SCSI Ultra320 68pin Hard Drive
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATA NCQ 3Gb/s ST3160812AS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831A-RK 300GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Momentus 5400.2 ST9120821A 120GB 5400 RPM Notebook Hard Drive
• Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 ST3146854LW 147GB 15,000 RPM SCSI Ultra320 80pin
• Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 ST3300007LW 300GB 10,000 RPM SCSI Ultra320 68pin
• Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 ST3300007LC 300GB 10,000 RPM SCSI Ultra320 80pin
• Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 ST373454LC 74GB 15,000 RPM SCSI Ultra320 80pin
• Seagate Barracuda ES ST3750640NS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
• Seagate ST3500641A-RK 500GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
• Seagate Barracuda ES ST3500630NS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA

Seagate Technology was founded by Alan Shugart (back from a sabbatical after getting pushed out of Shugart Associates) and Finis Conner; their first product (released in 1980) was the ST-506, the first hard drive to fit the 5.25" form factor of the (by then famous) Shugart "mini-floppy" drive. The drive was a hit, and was later released in a 10-megabyte version, the ST-412.

Through the 1980s, Seagate mainly sold simple drives that were derivatives of (and improvements upon) the original ST-506 design; the ST-225 20MB drive and ST-251 40 MB drive were the biggest sellers of this age, though they also sold faster drives that used voice coil technology. Because of this, Seagate drives were sometimes referred to as cheap and unreliable, a reputation not entirely undeserved because of the 225's and 251's usage of stepper motors to position the heads. However, Seagate drives were usually held in better regard than their competition (mainly MiniScribe, but also Microscience, Rodime, Tandon and Kalok). Seagate finally abandoned stepper motor designs in the early 1990s; the ST351A/X, an oddball 40 MB drive that could run on either an ATA or XT Attachment bus, was their last product to use a stepper.

Finis Conner left Seagate in early 1985. After one failed attempt to start his own company, and also briefly serving as CEO at CMI, in 1986 he founded Conner Peripherals, which originally specialised in small-form-factor drives for portable computers. Conner Peripherals also entered the tape drive business with their purchase of Archive Corporation. After ten years on their own, Conner rejoined Seagate in a 1996 merger.

In 1989, Seagate entered the high-end drive market with their purchase of Control Data's MPI/Imprimis disk storage division. This gave them access to CDC's voice coil and disk-manufacturing patents, as well as the first 5400 RPM drives on the market (the CDC Elite series). In 1992, Seagate introduced the Barracuda, the industry's first hard drive with a 7200 RPM spindle speed. They followed this with the Cheetah (the first 10,000 RPM drive) in 1996 and the X15 (15,000 RPM) in 2000. They also introduced the Medalist Pro 7200 range, the first ATA drives with a 7200 RPM spindle, in 1997. As of 2005, Seagate started an innovation called the "pocket hard drive". Seagate has the highest areal density (number of bits stored per square inch) in the industry and it leverages off this technological edge to make faster disk drives.

December 21st 2005, Seagate confirmed the acquisition of rival HDD firm Maxtor. The all-stock deal is worth $1.9 billion. The firms said the combination will be 10-20% accretive on a cash EPS basis after the first full year of combined operations. The combined company will save around $300 million in operating expenses after the first full year of integration, Seagate said. The transaction will be completed in the second half of next year. If the deal falls apart, Maxtor will pick up $300 million. The two firms will continue as separate companies until the close of the deal.