Seagate Heads Needed

[Philip Shaw]

Good evening. I have a Seagate ST2000DM006 with an SN of Z560HLS4 that needs a head replacement. It has three platters but uses the top side of the lower platter, both sides of the middle platter and the bottom side of the top platter. I opened a couple of my drives but they only have two platters. I have been trying to find a donor based on the second and third characters of the serial number but there is nothing out there. I am thinking I could probably get it to work if I could find a drive with three platters and six heads. Does this make sense? If so, does anybody know a part number?

Thanks.

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https://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/barracuda-fam/barracuda-new/en-us/docs/100804187a.pdf

ST3000DM008 & ST3000DM009 both have 6 heads.

[RecuperoDati299]

The Seagate platter count is written in the P/N, not in the model number.

In particular for the Grenada, you don't even need the P/N - the top cover shape is enough to determine whether it's 2 or 3 platters without opening the drive.

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Il giorno 21 gennaio 2026, alle ore 23:23, Philip Shaw <datarecovery...@googlegroups.com> ha scritto:

Good evening. I have a Seagate ST2000DM006 with an SN of Z560HLS4 that needs a head replacement. It has three platters but uses the top side of the lower platter, both sides of the middle platter and the bottom side of the top platter. I opened a couple of my drives but they only have two platters. I have been trying to find a donor based on the second and third characters of the serial number but there is nothing out there. I am thinking I could probably get it to work if I could find a drive with three platters and six heads. Does this make sense? If so, does anybody know a part number?

Thanks.

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[RecuperoDati299]

Forgot

But you firstly need to read the preamp type since they can implement 3 different types

and matching the minimum heads amount without matching the preamp type won't work

Robert

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Il giorno 21 gennaio 2026, alle ore 23:23, Philip Shaw <datarecovery...@googlegroups.com> ha scritto:

Good evening. I have a Seagate ST2000DM006 with an SN of Z560HLS4 that needs a head replacement. It has three platters but uses the top side of the lower platter, both sides of the middle platter and the bottom side of the top platter. I opened a couple of my drives but they only have two platters. I have been trying to find a donor based on the second and third characters of the serial number but there is nothing out there. I am thinking I could probably get it to work if I could find a drive with three platters and six heads. Does this make sense? If so, does anybody know a part number?

Thanks.

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