Seagate ST1500DL004 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.5TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST1500DL004 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST1500DL004 Technical Details:
Manufacturer:
Seagate
Hard Disk Model:
ST1500DL004
Disk Family:
Barracuda LP (Low Power)
Form Factor:
3.5″
Capacity:
1.5 TB (1,500,000,000,000 bytes)
Formatted Capacity:
Approximately 1.36 TB
Rotational Speed:
5900 RPM
Average Seek Time:
12.0 ms (read) / 13.0 ms (write)
Disk Interface:
Serial ATA-300 (SATA 3 Gb/s)
Buffer Size:
32768 KB (32 MB)
External Transfer Rate:
300 MB/s
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF):
500,000 hours
Seagate ST1500DL004 Hard Drives:
- ST1500DL004, HD155UI, FW 1AQ10001, Samsung 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST1500DL004 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 ST1500DL004 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST1500DL004 hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as BF41-00314A, etc.