ST1500LM012 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.5TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST1500LM012 Seagate 1.5TB 5.4K SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive.
All information about the Seagate ST1500LM012 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST1500LM012 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Seagate Mobile HDD (ST1500LM012)
- Disk Family: Mobile HDD Series (Rosewood architecture)
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 1.5 TB (1,500,000,000,000 bytes)
- Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
- Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600 (SATA III 6.0 Gb/s)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/second
- Buffer Size: 128 MB (131072 KB)
- Number of Disks (Platters): 2
- Number of Heads: 4
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.35 mm (3.95 inch)
- Height: 7.0 mm (0.28 inch Slim)
- Weight: 90 grams (0.20 pounds)
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
Seagate ST1500LM012 Hard Drives:
- ST1500LM012, ZDZ, TK, PN 1R817G-568, FW SBK2, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST1500LM012, WDZ, WU, PN 1R817G-568, FW SBK2, Seagate 1.5TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST1500LM012 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 ST1500LM012 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST1500LM012 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:
100809471, etc.