ST500LM024 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST500LM024 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST500LM024 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Seagate ST500LM024
- Disk Family: Spinpoint M8
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 000 000 000 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/300 (SATA-2 3.0Gbps)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 300 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 8 MB (8192 KB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4.0 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 12.0 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1.5 ms
- Width: 69.8 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.3 mm (3.95 inch)
- Height: 9.5 mm (0.37 inch)
- Weight: 102 grams (0.22 pounds)
- Acoustic (Idle): 2.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Min performance and volume): 2.2 Bel
- Acoustic (Max performance and volume): 2.4 Bel
- Required Power For Spinup: 5V (Peak 1.0A)
- Power Required (Seek): 2.2 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.7 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.2 W
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology LLC
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.