ST500LM024 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST500LM024 Seagate 500GB SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Seagate ST500LM024 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Seagate ST500LM024 Technical Details:

• Manufacturer: Seagate Technology
• Manufacturer Website: www.seagate.com
• Manufacturer Part No: ST500LM024
• Product Series or Family: Thin HDD
• Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
• Storage Capacity: 500GB
• Spindle Speed: 7200RPM
• Drive Interface: SATA 6.0Gbps
• Form Factor: 2.5Inch
• Cache: 32MB

Seagate ST500LM024 Hard Drives:

• ST500LM024, W62, WU, PN 1RS152-030, FW 0001SDM7, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• Seagate ST500LM024 500GB 7200 RPM 2.5" Internal Hard Drive
• ST500LM024, W62, WU, PN 1RS152-020, FW 0001YXM7, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
• ST500LM024, W62, WU, PN 1RS152-031, FW 0001SDM7, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive

Seagate ST500LM024 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 ST500LM024 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST500LM024 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.