HD501LJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD501LJ/C Samsung 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Samsung HD501LJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Samsung HD501LJ Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HD501LJ
- Disk Family: SpinPoint T166
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 3
- Number Of Heads: 6
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 10 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 0.8 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 18 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 146.05 mm (5.75 inch)
- Height: 25.4 mm (1.00 inch)
- Weight: 512 grams (1.13 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.7 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 2250 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 9.5 W
- Power Required (Idle): 7.7 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.90 W
- Manufacturer: Samsung
Samsung HD501LJ Hard Drives:
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ, FW CR100-10, T166S, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- Samsung HD501LJ, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 500GB SATA 3.5″ HDD
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ/C, FW CR100-10, T166S, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ/D, FW CR100-13, T166S, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ/C, FW CR100-12, T166S, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ/D, FW CR100-11, T166S, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ, FW CR100-12, T166S, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ/FRC, FW CR100-10, T166S, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ/JP3, FW CR100-10, T166S, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ/JP1, FW CR100-10, T166S, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ/C, FW CR100-13, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ/D, FW CR100-12, T166S, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ, FW CR100-13, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ, FW CR100-13, T166S, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ/C, FW CR100-10, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ, HD501LJ, FW CR100-06, P/V SS, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD501LJ/D, FW CR100-12, T166S, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Samsung HD501LJ 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 HD501LJ Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HD501LJ 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:
BF41-00133A, etc.