ST500LM011 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST500LM011 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD PCB repair and recommended retailers.
Seagate ST500LM011 Technical Details:
- Disk Family: Momentus
- Type: HDD
- Purpose: laptop
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Storage Capacity: 500 GB
- Buffer memory: 8 MB
- The number of heads: 4
- Number of plates: 2
- Speed of rotation: 5400 rpm
- Disk Interface: SATA 3Gb/s
- External data transfer rate: 300 MB/s
- Average access time, reading: 12 MS
- Noise idle: 24 dB
- Operating noise level: 26 dB
- Dimensions (WxHxL): 69.85×9.5×100 mm
- Weight: 104 g
Seagate ST500LM011 Hard Drives:
- Seagate ST500LM011 – 500GB 5.4K RPM SATA 9.5mm 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST500LM011 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 ST500LM011 HDD PCB Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST500LM011 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 “PCB Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number”.
Multiple PCB Number revisions:
BF41-00315A, BF41-00306A, etc.
