Seagate ST4000LM016 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 4TB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST4000LM016 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD PCB repair and recommended retailers.
Seagate ST4000LM016 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST4000LM016
- Disk Family: Laptop HDD
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 4 TB (4 x 1 000 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 4
- Number Of Heads: 8
- 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
- Average Seek Time: 12 ms
- Width: 69.85 mm (2.72 inch)
- Depth: 100.35 mm (3.94 inch)
- Height: 15 mm (0.59 inch)
- Weight: 200 grams (0.44 pounds)
- Required Power For Spinup: 1200 mA
- Power Required (Seek): 2.1 W
- Power Required (Idle): 1.9 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.18 W
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
Seagate ST4000LM016 Hard Drives:
- ST4000LM016, W80, WU, PN 1N2170-567, FW 0003, Seagate 4TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST4000LM016, W80, WU, PN 1N2170-566, FW 0002, Samsung 4TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST4000LM016, W80, WU, PN 1N2170-567, FW 0003, Samsung 4TB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST4000LM016 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 ST4000LM016 HDD PCB Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST4000LM016 hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as 100771588 REV A, etc.
