ST500LM012 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST500LM012 Seagate Momentus 500GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gbps 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST500LM012 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST500LM012 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST500LM012
- Disk Family: Momentus 5400
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 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/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 12 ms
- Width: 69.75 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.3 mm (3.95 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 107 grams (0.24 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 ST500LM012 Hard Drives:
- Samsung ST500LM012, 5400RPM, 3.0Gb/s, 500GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/SCC, FW 2AR10002, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/ASU, FW 2AR10001, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/D, FW 2AR10002, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/SZ2, FW 2BA30003, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/P4C, FW 2BA30014, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/M, FW 2AR10002, SSNE, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/D1, FW 2AR20004, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/LCP, FW 2AR10001, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/I, FW 2AR20003, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/VAO, FW 2AR10002, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/SP4, FW 2BA30010, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/A2, FW 2AR20008, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/A22, FW 2BA30003, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB, FW 2BA30001, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/EX2, FW 2BA30001, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB, FW 2AR10002, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/D1, FW 2AR20003, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/LC1, FW 2AR20002, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/JP3, FW 2BA30001, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/SC2, FW 2AR20003, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/LC2, FW 2BA30001, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/SS1, FW 2AR20002, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/M1, FW 2AR20002, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM012, HN-M500MBB/D2, FW 2BA30003, Samsung 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST500LM012 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 ST500LM012 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST500LM012 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:
BF41-00354A, etc.