HM160HI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. HM160HI Samsung 160GB 5400RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 2.5-inch Laptop Hard Drive for Precision M6700.

All information about the Samsung HM160HI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung HM160HI Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HM160HI
• Disk Family: SpinPoint M5S
• Form Factor: 2.5″
• Capacity: 160 GB (160 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 HM160HI Hard Drives:

• Samsung HM160HI, 5400RPM, 1.5Gb/s, 160GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
• HM160HI, HM160HI/D, FW HH100-10, M5S1, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI, FW HH100-08, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/D, FW HH100-14, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/M, FW HH100-15, SFSS, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/SMO, FW HH100-06, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/CN1, FW HH100-09, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/M, FW HH100-10, M5S1, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/M, FW HH100-12, SFNS, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/SRN, FW HH100-14, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/TE1, FW HH100-08, M5S1, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/M, FW HH100-12, M5S1, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST160LM006, HM160HI, FW HH100-08, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/D, FW HH100-11, M5S1, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/SCC, FW HH100-10, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/D, FW HH100-11, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/M, FW HH100-15, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI, HM160HI/D, FW HH100-15, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HM160HI/D, FW HH100-10, M5S1, Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Samsung HM160HI 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 HM160HI Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HM160HI 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:
BF41-00328A, BF41-00186A, BF41-00157A, etc.