Seagate ST1000LM035 Head Swap Tips

[pclab]

Might be handy....

Seagate ST1000LM035 is one more and more common physical head swap case in data recovery labs.

Most ST1000LM035 hard drive we received are 1-platter design with 2 heads but today we receive one ST1000LM035 hard drive and it has 2 platters, 4 heads and when connecting this drive to data recovery hardware, it keeps clicking and we powered it off immediately.

It is not easy to find a donor hdd of ST1000LM035 with 4 heads, we have searched all our ST1000LM035 stock, no luck at all.

HDD IDs for this ST1000LM035:

Model number: ST1000LM035
SN: WBZ05C82
Part number: 1RK172-568
PCB Number: 100799274

Next the clean room data recovery engineer found one ST2000LM007 hard drive with 2 platters and 4 heads as donor, these drive are cross compatible with each other.

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[lcoughey]

Makes sense.

 

[Jared]

Yeah, I've used 3Tb Grenada heads to recover 2Tb drives a number of times.

 

[Blizzard]

I just had a ST1000LM035 with 2 platter and only 3 heads. I'm guessing the ST2000LM007 rejects are being sold as 1TB
HSA design in the 1TB x 2-platter looks like the HSA in the 2TB model. The preamp number matched a 2 head model though.