ST1500DL003 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.5TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST1500DL003 Seagate Barracuda GREEN 1.5TB 5900RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST1500DL003 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST1500DL003 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST1500DL003
  • Disk Family: Barracuda Green 1500DL003
  • Form Factor: 3.5″
  • Capacity: 1500 GB (1500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 3
  • Number Of Heads: 6
  • Rotational Speed: 5900 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 10.17 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.08 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 65536 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 17 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 12 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
  • Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
  • Depth: 147 mm (5.79 inch)
  • Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
  • Weight: 622 grams (1.37 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 ST1500DL003 Hard Drives:

ST1500DL003 Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST1500DL003, 5YD, WU, PN 9VT16L-302, FW CC3C, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500DL003, 6YD, SU, PN 9VT16L-302, FW CC3C, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500DL003, 5YD, WU, PN 9VT16L-301, FW CC32, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500DL003, 5YD, WU, PN 9VT16L-021, FW HP16, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500DL003, 5YD, SU, PN 9VT16L-302, FW CC3C, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500DL003, 5YD, WU, PN 9VT16L-517, FW CC4A, Seagate 1.5GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500DL003, 5YD, SU, PN 9VT16L-302, FW CC3C, Seagate 1.5GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500DL003, 5YD, WU, PN 9VT16L-517, FW CC4A, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500DL003, 6YD, SU, PN 9VT16L-570, FW CC98, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500DL003, 5YD, SU, PN 9VT16L-301, FW CC32, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1500DL003, 6YD, SU, PN 9VT16L-301, FW CC32, Seagate 1.5GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST1500DL003 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 ST1500DL003 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST1500DL003 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:
100617476, 100617465, etc.