ST9500620NS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST9500620NS Seagate Constellation.2 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST9500620NS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST9500620NS Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST9500620NS
- Disk Family: Constellation.2 SATA 500620
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 2
- Number Of Heads: 4
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 65536 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 20 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 7.5 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.23 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 17.06 ms
- Width: 70 mm (2.76 inch)
- Depth: 100.5 mm (3.96 inch)
- Height: 14.8 mm (0.58 inch)
- Weight: 183 grams (0.40 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.3 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 1200 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 2.4 W
- Power Required (Idle): 1.2 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.36 W
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
Seagate ST9500620NS Hard Drives:
- ST9500620NS, 9XF, KRATSG, PN 9RZ164-001, FW SN01, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST9500620NS, 9XF, KRATSG, PN 9RZ164-035, FW HPG2, HP 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST9500620NS, 9XF, KRATSG, PN 9RZ164-136, FW AA0D, Dell 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST9500620NS, 9XF, KRATSG, PN 9RZ164-035, FW HPG1, HP 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST9500620NS 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 ST9500620NS Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST9500620NS 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:
100583844, etc.