ST250LT003 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST250LT003 Seagate Momentus 250GB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s Internal 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST250LT003 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST250LT003 Technical Details:

  • Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST250LT003
  • Disk Family: Momentus Thin 250LT003
  • Form Factor: 2.5″
  • Capacity: 250 GB (250 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
  • Number Of Disks: 1
  • Number Of Heads: 2
  • Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
  • Rotation Time: 11.11 ms
  • Average Rotational Latency: 5.56 ms
  • Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/300
  • Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
  • Buffer Size: 16384 KB
  • Drive Ready Time (typical): 3.5 seconds
  • Average Seek Time: 11 ms
  • Track To Track Seek Time: 1.5 ms
  • Width: 70.1 mm (2.76 inch)
  • Depth: 100.55 mm (3.96 inch)
  • Height: 7 mm (0.28 inch)
  • Weight: 92 grams (0.20 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

Seagate ST250LT003 Hard Drives:

ST250LT003 Seagate 250GB SATA 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

  • ST250LT003, W04, WU, PN 9YG14C-031, FW 0003DEM1, Seagate 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST250LT003, W04, WU, PN 9YG14C-030, FW 0001DEM1, Seagate 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST250LT003, W0Q, WU, PN 9YG14C-031, FW 0003DEM1, Seagate 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST250LT003, W04, WU, PN 9YG14C-188, FW 0001SDM1, Seagate 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST250LT003, W04, WU, PN 9YG14C-020, FW 0001HPM1, Seagate 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST250LT003, W04, WU, PN 9YG14C-021, FW 0002HPM1, Seagate 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • Seagate ST250LT003, 5400RPM, 3.0Gp/s, 250GB SATA 2.5″ HDD
  • ST250LT003, W04, WU, PN 9YG14C-055, FW 0001SDM1, Seagate 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
  • ST250LT003, W04, WU, PN 9YG14C-230, FW 0001SDM1, Seagate 250GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST250LT003 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 ST250LT003 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST250LT003 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:
100654403, 100625000, etc.