Seagate Laptop Thin HDD, 2.5″, 500GB, SATA 6Gb/s, 7mm, ST500LM021

Seagate Laptop Thin HDD, 2.5″, 500GB, SATA 6Gb/s, 7mm, ST500LM021

Seagate Laptop Hard Drive

Seagate® Laptop HDDs offer some of the best features at price and capacity points that help to enable no-compromise, lightweight designs for laptop computing.

7mm Laptop Thin HDDs or 9.5mm Laptop hard drive kits

Seagate SmartAlign™ technology1 provides easy transition to 4K sectors

Available as a Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) and FIPS 140-2 SED2

Compatible with SATA 6Gb/s designs

Backed by a 2-year limited warranty

2.5-inch Laptop Drives Available in Several Capacities
Seagate’s purpose-built the 2.5-inch Laptop HDDs help meet our customers’ demand for affordable, flexible computing solutions.

7mm hard drive is available in 500GB, 320GB, 250GB and 160GB capacity options

9.5mm hard drive is available in 2TB, 1TB and 500GB capacity options (Kits)

Smooth Migration to Advanced Format 4K
Laptop Thin HDDs include Seagate SmartAlign technology.1 This innovation helps you easily get all the benefits of the new Advanced Format (AF) 4K sector standard—no utilities, no extra steps—automatically in the background. Performance is not affected, and there is no need for time-consuming utilities required by other AF-enabled drives.

Secure SED Options
Laptop Thin SEDs deliver government-grade encryption without performance degradation—protecting your data where it lives. You get all the benefits of secure data encryption without the headaches.

Ships with the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Opal protocol

The world’s first 7mm SED to ship with FIPS 140-2 validation2

Instant on-the-fly encryption without performance degradation

Instant Secure EraseTM technology that can instantly erase the security key data on your hard drive if needed, enabling secure disposal or repurposing of the SED

Specifications
Cache : 32 MB
Capacity : 500 GB
Form Factor : 2.5
Interface SATA : 6Gb/s
Misc.
RPM : 7200 rpm
Series
Warranty : 2 Years
Weight : 209 g