HM250HI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. HM250HI Samsung SpinPoint M7 250GB 5400RPM 8MB Cache 2.5-inch SATA 3GB/s Laptop Hard Drive.

All information about the Samsung HM250HI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung HM250HI Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HM250HI
  • Disk Family: SpinPoint M7
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 250 GB (250 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: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 100 mm (3.94 inch)
  • Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 105 grams (0.23 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.6 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1000 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 2.4 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 0.85 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.25 W
  • Manufacturer: Samsung

Samsung HM250HI Hard Drives:

HM250HI Samsung 250GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • HM250HI, HM250HI/M, FW 2AC101C4, SFNS, Samsung 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • HM250HI, HM250HI/SCC, FW 2AC101C4, Samsung 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • HM250HI, HM250HI/CN1, FW 2AC101C4, Samsung 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • HM250HI, HM250HI, FW 2AC101C4, Samsung 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • HM250HI, HM250HI/I, FW 2AC101C5, Samsung 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • HM250HI, HM250HI/D, FW 2AC101C4, Samsung 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST250LM000, HM250HI, FW 2AC101C4, Seagate 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • HM250HI, HM250HI/M, FW 2AC101C4, SSNE, Samsung 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Samsung HM250HI 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

Samsung HM250HI Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HM250HI 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:
BF41-00249B, etc.