Seagate ST5000DM003

Seagate ST5000DM003 Hard Drives:

• ST5000DM003, WCV, WU, PN 2FH18L-568, FW 0001, Seagate 5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST5000DM003, WG7, WU, PN 2FH18L-568, FW 0001, Seagate 5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive
• ST5000DM003, WF3, WU, PN 2FH18L-568, FW 0001, Seagate 5TB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST5000DM003 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 ST5000DM003 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST5000DM003 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:
100802503, etc.