ST500LM030 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST500LM030 Seagate Barracuda 500GB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST500LM030 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST500LM030 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST500LM030
- Disk Family: Laptop HDD
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 1
- 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 ST500LM030 Hard Drives:
- ST500LM030, ZDE, TK, PN 2E717D-500, FW SDM1, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM030, WDE, WU, PN 2E717D-500, FW SDM1, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM030, WDE, WU, PN 1RK17D-030, FW SDM2, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM030, WL1, WU, PN 2E717D-500, FW SDM1, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM030, ZDE, TK, PN 1RK17D-568, FW SBM3, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM030, WL1, WU, PN 1RK17D-285, FW SDM1, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM030, WES, WU, PN 1RK17D-500, FW SDM1, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST500LM030 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 ST500LM030 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST500LM030 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:
100799274, 100809471, 100781943, etc.