ST1500DL001 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.5TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST1500DL001 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST1500DL001 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Seagate ST1500DL001
- Disk Family: Barracuda Green
- Form Factor: 3.5″
- Capacity: 1500 GB (1 500 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 3
- Number Of Heads: 6
- Rotational Speed: 5900 RPM
- Rotation Time: 10.17 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.08 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300 (SATA-2 3.0Gbps)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 32768 KB (32 MB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 12.0 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 12.0 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1.0 ms
- Width: 101.6 mm (4.00 inch)
- Depth: 147.0 mm (5.79 inch)
- Height: 26.1 mm (1.02 inch)
- Weight: 622 grams (1.37 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.4 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.5 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 12V / 5V (Peak 2.0A)
- Power Required (Seek): 5.8 W
- Power Required (Idle): 4.5 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.5 W
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology LLC
Seagate ST1500DL001 Hard Drives:

- ST1500DL001, 5YD, WU, PN 9VT15L-570, FW CC98, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST1500DL001, 5YD, WU, PN 9VT15L-568, FW CC92, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST1500DL001, 6YD, SU, PN 9VT15L-570, FW CC98, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST1500DL001, 5YD, SU, PN 9VT15L-570, FW CC98, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
- ST1500DL001, 5YD, WU, PN 9VT15L-570, FW CC96, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST1500DL001 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
Seagate ST1500DL001 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST1500DL001 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:
100617465, etc.