{Forum} Seagate Hard Drive Donor Matching Guide
The following guide will help you to find the most compatible donor hard drive to fix or repair a damaged Seagate hard drive in order to recover the data. This will not guarantee 100% success but will improve your chances greatly of finding the most compatible donor hard drive.This Seagate donor matching guide is split into two sections. Please first determine by looking at the hard drive sticker which series of Seagate you have. Your hard drive label may look different to the one shown due to revisions and different models of Seagate hard drives. But the main matching criteria will always be present on all hard drive stickers.
We have color coded each matching aspect into 3 category’s:
Seagate F3 (new architecture) 7200.11 and newer
Seagate F3 architecture can be identified by the drive NOT containing a period ( . ) in the firmware number.Try to match the following criteria as best as possible to find the most compatible donor drive:
- Serial number: Match the first 3 characters of the serial number.
- Model number: Must match completely.
- Part number: Match the 1st half of the part number. Optional – Match the second part of the part number if possible.
- Firmware: Optional.
- Date code: Use the Seagate date code converter. Dates should be as close as possible, no more than 3 months apart is ideal.
- Site code: Must match.
- Heads Map: Match the physical heads map. If the donor contains more heads its ok.
- Pre-Amplifier Type: Match all 4 digits of the preamplifier type. This can be found by pressing CTRL+L in terminal.
Seagate (old architecture) 7200.10 and older
Seagate hard drives with old architecture can be identified by containing a period ( . ) in the firmware number.Try to match the following criteria as best as possible to find the most compatible donor drive:
- Serial number: Match the first 3 characters of the serial number.
- Model number: Must match completely.
- Part number: Match the 1st half of the part number. Optional – Match the second part of the part number if possible.
- Firmware: Only required for PCB replacement, or hot swap.
- Date code: Use the Seagate date code converter. Dates should be as close as possible, no more than 3 months apart is ideal.
- Site code: Must match.
- Heads Map: Match the physical heads map. If the donor contains more heads its
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