Seagate ST500DM002

ST500DM002 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST500DM002 Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST500DM002 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST500DM002 Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST500DM002
• Disk Family: Barracuda 7200.14
• Form Factor: 3.5″
• Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 1
• Number Of Heads: 2
• 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: 16384 KB
• Drive Ready Time (typical): 8.5 seconds
• Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms
• Track To Track Seek Time: 1 ms
• Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
• Depth: 146.99 mm (5.79 inch)
• Height: 19.98 mm (0.79 inch)
• Weight: 415 grams (0.91 pounds)
• Required Power For Spinup: 2000 mA
• Power Required (Seek): 6.19 W
• Power Required (Idle): 4.60 W
• Power Required (Standby): 0.79 W
• Manufacturer: Seagate Technology

Seagate ST500DM002 Hard Drives:

• Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 500GB SATA Hard Drive ST500DM002 16MB Cache Bulk/OEM 7200 RPM Desktop
• ST500DM002, Z2A, TK, PN 1BD142-541, FW KC65, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, Z3T, TK, PN 1BD142-501, FW KC47, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, S2A, SU, PN 1BD142-500, FW KC45, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, W2A, WU, PN 1BD142-501, FW KC47, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, W2A, WU, PN 1BD142-500, FW KC45, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, Z6E, TK, PN 1BD142-303, FW KC48, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, Z6E, TK, PN 1BD142-023, FW HP74, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, Z2A, TK, PN 1BC142-300, FW JC4B, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, Z2A, TK, PN 1BD142-021, FW HP73, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, S2A, SU, PN 1BD142-541, FW KC65, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, W2A, WU, PN 1BD142-301, FW KC44, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, Z2A, TK, PN 1BD142-302, FW KC45, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, S2A, SU, PN 1BD142-302, FW KC45, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, Z2A, TK, PN 1BD142-500, FW KC45, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, W2A, WU, PN 1BD142-021, FW HP73, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, Z6E, TK, PN 1BD142-501, FW KC47, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, Z2A, SU, PN 1BD142-541, FW KC65, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, W2A, WU, PN 1BD142-320, FW HP73, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, W3T, WU, PN 1BD142-543, FW KC67, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, W3T, WU, PN 1BD142-023, FW HP74, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, S2A, SU, PN 1BD142-303, FW KC48, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, W2A, SU, PN 1BD142-500, FW KC45, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, W2A, SU, PN 1BD142-320, FW HP73, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500DM002, W2A, WU, PN 1BD142-541, FW KC65, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST500DM002 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 ST500DM002 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST500DM002 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:
100532367, 100535704, 100664987, 100774000, etc.