ST320LM010 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST320LM010 Seagate Laptop THIN HDD 320GB 7200RPM 2.5-inch 7MM 32MB Cache SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST320LM010 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST320LM010 Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST320LM010
• Disk Family: Laptop Thin HDD 320LM010
• Form Factor: 2.5″
• Capacity: 320 GB (320 x 1 000 000 000 bytes)
• Number Of Disks: 1
• Number Of Heads: 2
• Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
• Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
• Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 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: 11 ms
• Track To Track Seek Time: 1.5 ms
• Width: 69.85 mm (2.75 inch)
• Depth: 100.35 mm (3.95 inch)
• Height: 6.8 mm (0.27 inch)
• Weight: 95 grams (0.21 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 ST320LM010 Hard Drives:

• ST320LM010, W62, WU, PN 1KJ15C-020, FW 0002YXM1, Seagate 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST320LM010, W62, WU, PN 1KJ15C-070, FW 0002LIM1, Seagate 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST320LM010, W62, WU, PN 1KJ15C-500, FW 0001SDM1, Seagate 320GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST320LM010 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 ST320LM010 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST320LM010 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:
100729420, etc.