Seagate ST50LM022 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface.
All information about the Seagate ST50LM022 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Seagate ST50LM022 Technical Details:
Manufacturer:
Seagate
Hard Disk Model:
ST50LM022
Disk Family:
Enterprise 2.5″ Series
Form Factor:
2.5″
Capacity:
500 GB (500,000,000,000 bytes)
Formatted Capacity:
Approximately 465 GB
Rotational Speed:
5400 RPM
Average Seek Time:
12.0 ms (read) / 13.0 ms (write)
Disk Interface:
Serial ATA-300 (SATA 3 Gb/s)
Buffer Size:
8192 KB (8 MB)
External Transfer Rate:
300 MB/s
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF):
500,000 hours
Seagate ST50LM022 Hard Drives:
- ST50LM022, HN-M750MBB/AS2, FW 2BA30001, Samsung 750GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive
Seagate ST50LM022 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 ST50LM022 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Seagate ST50LM022 hard drive experience is a burned circuit board (PCB). Therefore, if you need to replace the PCB, be sure to match the “PCB Number” of the current board, such as 100720903, etc.