ST2000LM015 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST2000LM015 Seagate BarraCuda Pro 2TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST2000LM015 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST2000LM015 Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST2000LM015
• Disk Family: Laptop HDD
• Form Factor: 2.5″
• Capacity: 2 TB (2 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/600
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 131072 KB
• Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
• Depth: 100.35 mm (3.95 inch)
• Height: 7 mm (0.28 inch)
• Weight: 90 grams (0.20 pounds)
• Required Power For Spinup: 1000 mA
• Power Required (Seek): 1.8 W
• Power Required (Idle): 1.7 W
• Power Required (Standby): 0.18 W
• Manufacturer: Seagate Technology

Seagate ST2000LM015 Hard Drives:

• ST2000LM015, WDZ, WU, PN 2E8174-500, FW SDM1, Seagate 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST2000LM015, ZDZ, TK, PN 2E8174-501, FW 0001, Seagate 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST2000LM015, ZDZ, TK, PN 2E8174-500, FW SDM1, Seagate 2TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST2000LM015 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 ST2000LM015 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST2000LM015 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:
100835923, 100809471, etc.