HM100UX Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a USB interface.
All information about the Samsung HM100UX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Samsung HM100UX Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Samsung Spinpoint MT2 (HM100UX)
- Disk Family: Spinpoint MT2 Series
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,000,000,000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300 (SATA II 3.0 Gb/s)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/second
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB (8 MB)
- Number of Disks (Platters): 3
- Number of Heads: 6
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.72 inch)
- Depth: 100.3 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 12.5 mm (0.49 inch)
- Weight: 150 grams (0.33 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Samsung Electronics
Samsung HM100UX Hard Drives:
- HM100UX, HM100UX/VP4, FW 2AM10001, Samsung 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
Samsung HM100UX 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 HM100UX Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HM100UX 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:
BF41-00309A, etc.