ST500LM034 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST500LM034 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST500LM034 Technical Details:
- Hard Disk Model: Seagate ST500LM034
- Disk Family: BarraCuda Pro 2.5
- Form Factor: 2.5″
- Capacity: 500 GB (500 000 000 000 bytes)
- Number Of Disks: 1
- Number Of Heads: 2
- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
- Rotation Time: 8.33 ms
- Average Rotational Latency: 4.17 ms
- Disk Interface: Serial-ATA/600 (SATA-3 6.0Gbps)
- Buffer-Host Max. Rate: 600 MB/seconds
- Buffer Size: 128 MB (131072 KB)
- Drive Ready Time (typical): 4.0 seconds
- Average Seek Time: 11.5 ms
- Track To Track Seek Time: 1.0 ms
- Width: 69.8 mm (2.75 inch)
- Depth: 100.3 mm (3.95 inch)
- Height: 7.0 mm (0.28 inch)
- Weight: 85 grams (0.19 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): 1.9 W
- Power Required (Idle): 0.7 W
- Power Required (Standby): 0.13 W
- Manufacturer: Seagate Technology LLC
Seagate ST500LM034 Hard Drives:
- ST500LM034, WGS, WU, PN 2GH17A-030, FW SDM2, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM034, WGS, WU, PN 2GH17A-021, FW RPM2, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM034, ZGS, TK, PN 2GH17A-031, FW 1001, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM034, WN9, WU, PN 2GH17A-171, FW LXM3, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM034, WN9, WU, PN 2GH17A-170, FW LXM4, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM034, ZGS, TK, PN 2GH17A-030, FW SDM2, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM034, WGS, WU, PN 2GH17A-020, FW RXM3, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM034, WN9, WU, PN 2GH17A-030, FW SDM2, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
- ST500LM034, WGS, WU, PN 2GH17A-500, FW SDM1, Seagate 500GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST500LM034 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 ST500LM034 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST500LM034 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:
100815565, 100809471, etc.