HN-M101MBB Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. HN-M101MBB/LC1 Samsung 1TB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Samsung HN-M101MBB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung HN-M101MBB Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SAMSUNG HN-M101MBB
• Disk Family: SpinPoint M8U
• Form Factor: 2.5″
• Capacity: 1 TB (1 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 2
• Number Of Heads: 4
• Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
• Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
• Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 8192 KB
• Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
• Average Seek Time: 12 ms
• Width: 69.75 mm (2.75 inch)
• Depth: 100.3 mm (3.95 inch)
• Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
• Weight: 107 grams (0.24 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 HN-M101MBB Hard Drives:

• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/SC3, FW 2BA30001, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/AV2, FW 2BA30001, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB, FW 2AR10002, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/D2, FW 2BA30004, Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/AVA, FW 2BA30003, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/D2, FW 2BA30001, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/AVN, FW 2AR10001, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/D1, FW 2AR20002, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/SCC, FW 2AR10002, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/D2, FW 2BA30004, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/LC1, FW 2AR20002, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/ESL, FW 2BA30001, Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/I02, FW 2BA30001, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/D, FW 2AR10002, Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• HN-M101MBB, HN-M101MBB/SCC, FW 2AR10001, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/AV2, FW 2BA30003, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/D1, FW 2AR20004, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/M2, FW 2BA30001, SFNW, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/AV2, FW 2BA30002, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/SCC, FW 2AR10001, Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/A22, FW 2BA30003, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/AS2, FW 2BA30001, Seagate 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/M2, FW 2BA30001, RSNE, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/D2, FW 2BA30002, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST1000LM024, HN-M101MBB/A1, FW 2AR20008, Samsung 1TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Samsung HN-M101MBB 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 HN-M101MBB Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung HN-M101MBB 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:
100720903, etc.