ST1500LM003 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.5TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST1500LM003 Seagate FreePlay 1.5TB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST1500LM003 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST1500LM003 Technical Details:

Seagate ST1500LM003 Hard Drives:

ST1500LM003 Seagate 1.5TB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST1500LM003, Z11, TK, PN 9YH148-550, FW CC9F, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500LM003, Z11, SU, PN 9YH148-550, FW CC9F, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500LM003, Z11, TK, PN 9YH148-501, FW CC9F, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500LM003, W11, WU, PN 9YH148-552, FW CC9G, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500LM003, W11, WU, PN 9YH148-550, FW CC9F, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500LM003, Z11, TK, PN 9YH148-550, FW CC94, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST1500LM003 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 ST1500LM003 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST1500LM003 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:
100609264, etc.