ST1000LM025 Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a USB interface. ST1000LM025 Seagate Momentus 1TB 5400RPM USB 3.0 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.

All information about the Samsung ST1000LM025 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung ST1000LM025 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST1000LM025
  • Disk Family: Momentus USB
  • 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: USB 3.0
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 400 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 8192 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 4 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 12 ms
  • Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
  • Depth: 104 mm (4.09 inch)
  • Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 107 grams (0.24 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.3 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 3.0 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1200 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 2.4 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 1.2 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.36 W
  • Manufacturer: Seagate Technology

Samsung ST1000LM025 Hard Drives:

ST1000LM025 Samsung 1TB USB 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST1000LM025, HN-M101ABB/ESG, FW 2BA30003, Samsung 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1000LM025, HN-M101ABB/ESA, FW 2BA30003, Samsung 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1000LM025, HN-M101ABB/EXA, FW 2BA30002, Samsung 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1000LM025, HN-M101ABB, FW 2AR10001, Samsung 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1000LM025, HN-M101ABB/ESG, FW 2BA30002, Samsung 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1000LM025, HN-M101ABB/EX2, FW 2BA30003, Samsung 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1000LM025, HN-M101ABB/EX2, FW 2BA30001, Samsung 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1000LM025, HN-M101ABB/ESA, FW 2BA30003, Seagate 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1000LM025, HN-M101ABB/ESA, FW 2BA30002, Samsung 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST1000LM025, HN-M101ABB/SVD, FW 2BA30001, Samsung 1TB USB 2.5″ Hard Drive

Samsung ST1000LM025 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 ST1000LM025 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung ST1000LM025 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:
BF41-00373A, 100720903, 100760718, 100725482, etc.