ST1000LM048 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST1000LM048 Seagate Barracuda 1TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST1000LM048 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST1000LM048 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST1000LM048
  • Disk Family: Laptop HDD
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 1 TB (1 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 2
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 131072 KB
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100.35 mm (3.95 inch)
  • Height: 7 mm (0.28 inch)
  • Weight: 90 grams (0.20 pounds)
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1000 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 1.7 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 1.6 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.18 W
  • Manufacturer: Seagate Technology

Seagate ST1000LM048 Hard Drives:

ST1000LM048 Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST1000LM048, ZDE, TK, PN 2E7172-500, FW SDM1, Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1000LM048, WDE, WU, PN 2E7172-500, FW SDM1, Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST1000LM048 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 ST1000LM048 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST1000LM048 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:
100809471, etc.