HM121HI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a SATA interface. HM121HI Samsung Spinpoint M5 120GB 5400RPM SATA 1.5Gbps 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.
All information about the Samsung HM121HI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Samsung HM121HI Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HM121HI
- Disk Family: SpinPoint M5S
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 120 GB (120 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/150
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 150 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8192 KB
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 3.5 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 12 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 2 ms
- Full Stroke Seek Time: 22 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.1 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 9.4 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 100 grams (0.22 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 HM121HI Hard Drives:
- HM121HI, HM121HI, FW LZ100-08, Samsung 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HM121HI, HM121HI/D, FW LZ100-11, Samsung 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HM121HI, HM121HI/M, FW LZ100-10, M5S1, Samsung 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- HM121HI, HM121HI/D, FW LZ100-11, M5S1, Samsung 120GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Samsung HM121HI 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 HM121HI Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HM121HI 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:
BF41-00157A, etc.