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Seagate ST500LM000

Price and performance details for the Seagate ST500LM000 can be found below. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.

  • The first graph shows the relative performance of the Hard Drive compared to the 10 other common Hard Drives in terms of PassMark Disk Rating.
  • The 2nd graph shows the value for money, in terms of the Disk Rating per dollar.

Seagate ST500LM000

Drive Size:  489 GB

Other names:  ST500LM000-1EJ162, ST500LM000-SSHD-8GB, ST500LM000-1EJ162-SSHD-8GB, ST500LM000-1EJ162-SSHD

Drive First Benchmarked: 2013-04-30

Drive Rating/$Price: 16.20

Overall Rank:  15989

Last Price Change:  $40 USD (2025-11-21)

Average Drive Rating
648
Samples: 530

Disk Test Suite Average Results for Seagate ST500LM000

Sequential Read83 MBytes/Sec
Sequential Write96 MBytes/Sec
Random Seek Read Write (IOPS 32KQD20)14 MBytes/Sec
IOPS 4KQD11 MBytes/Sec
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Pricing History


Drive Rating Relative to Top 10 HDDs Common Drives
As of 11th of December 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Drive Average Disk Rating
Seagate ST1000DM010
1,392
TOSHIBA DT01ACA100
1,264
WDC WD10EZEX
1,227
Seagate ST2000DM001
1,196
Seagate ST1000DM003
1,176
TOSHIBA MQ04ABF100
1,072
WDC WD10SPZX
911
HGST HTS721010A9E630
809
TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100
782
Seagate ST500LM000
648
Last 5 Baselines for Seagate ST500LM000
Most recent listed first
Baseline Disk Rating
BL3107437 - Dec 04 2025
682
BL3106310 - Dec 04 2025
479
BL3105148 - Dec 04 2025
695
BL3090247 - Nov 28 2025
630
BL3087771 - Nov 27 2025
687