ST500NM0001 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SAS interface. ST500NM0001 Seagate CONSTELLATION 500GB 7200RPM SAS 6GB/s 3.5-inch 16MB Cache Internal Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST500NM0001 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST500NM0001 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST500NM0001
- Disk Family: Constellation ES.1 500NM0001
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: SAS
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 65536 KB
- Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.7 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 18.2 ms
- Width: 101.85 mm (4.01 inch)
- Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 610 grams (1.34 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.1 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.3 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.3 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 2000 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 5.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 4.50 W
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
Seagate ST500NM0001 Hard Drives:
- ST500NM0001, Z1M, KRATSG, PN 9YZ262-002, FW 0002, Seagate 500GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500NM0001, Z1M, KRATSG, PN 9YZ262-150, FW PS06, Dell 500GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500NM0001, Z1M, KRATSG, PN 9YZ262-001, FW 0001, Seagate 500GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST500NM0001 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 ST500NM0001 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST500NM0001 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:
100638869, etc.