ST500LM020 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST500LM020 Seagate 500GB 5400RPM SATA Laptop 2.5-inch Laptop SSHD Hybrid Drive for Latitude E5440.

All information about the Seagate ST500LM020 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST500LM020 Technical Details:

• Hard Disk Model: SEAGATE ST500LM020
• Disk Family: Laptop Thin SSHD 500LM020
• Form Factor: 2.5″
• Capacity: 500 GB (500 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/600
• Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
• Buffer Size: 65536 KB
• Average Seek Time: 12 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 ST500LM020 Hard Drives:

• ST500LM020, W76, WU, PN 1G1162-033, FW DM72, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST500LM020 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 ST500LM020 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST500LM020 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:
100705349, etc.