ST2000LM006 Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST2000LM006 Seagate 2TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Samsung ST2000LM006 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Samsung ST2000LM006 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST2000LM006
  • Disk Family: Spinpoint M9T
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 2 TB (2 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 3
  • Number Of Heads: 6
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 32768 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: 100.35 mm (3.95 inch)
  • Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
  • Weight: 130 grams (0.29 pounds)
  • Acoustic (Idle): 2.5 Bel
  • Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.7 Bel
  • Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.7 Bel
  • Required Power For Spinup: 1000 mA
  • Power Required (Seek): 2.3 W
  • Power Required (Idle): 0.7 W
  • Power Required (Standby): 0.18 W
  • Manufacturer: Seagate Technology

Samsung ST2000LM006 Hard Drives:

ST2000LM006  Samsung 2TB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST2000LM006, HN-M201RAD/SZ1, FW 2BC10007, Samsung 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST2000LM006, HN-M201RAD/SZ2, FW 2BE10001, Seagate 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST2000LM006, HN-M201RAD/SBZ, FW 2BC10003, Samsung 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Samsung ST2000LM006 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 ST2000LM006 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Samsung ST2000LM006 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:
100739392, 100767980, 100731207, etc.