HD502HJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD502HJ/B Samsung 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive.
All information about the Samsung HD502HJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Samsung HD502HJ Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HD502HJ
- Disk Family: SpinPoint F3
- 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/300
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 16384 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 8 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 8.9 ms
- Width: 101.5 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.03 inch)
- Weight: 475 grams (1.05 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.5 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.8 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 2000 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 5.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 4.8 W
- Power Required (Standby): 1 W
- Manufacturer: Samsung
Samsung HD502HJ Hard Drives:
- HD502HJ, HD502HJ/B, FW 1AJ10002, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- Samsung HD502HJ, 7200RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 500GB Sata 3.5″ HDD
- HD502HJ, HD502HJ/A, FW 1AJ10102, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD502HJ, HD502HJ, FW 1AJ10001, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500DM005, HD502HJ, FW 1AJ10001, Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD502HJ, HD502HJ/A1, FW 1AJ10101, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD502HJ, HD502HJ, FW 1AJ100E4, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD502HJ, HD502HJ/A1, FW 1AJ10102, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD502HJ, HD502HJ/D, FW 1AJ10001, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD502HJ, HD502HJ/B01, FW 1AJ10006, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD502HJ, HD502HJ/SRA, FW 1AJ10001, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- HD502HJ, HD502HJ/SCC, FW 1AJ10002, Samsung 500GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Samsung HD502HJ 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 HD502HJ Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HD502HJ 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:
BF41-00302A, etc.