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Product Manual Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA 100529369 Rev. H August 2010 ST31000528AS ST3750528AS ST3500418AS ST3500410AS ST3320418AS ST3250318AS ST3160318AS[...]

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Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H i Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.0 D[...]

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Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H iii List of Figures Figure 1. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

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Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda ® 7200.12 Serial ATA model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 7200 RPM spindle speed. • High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates ([...]

2 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface The Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the traditional (parallel) ATA interface. The primary advantages include: • Easy installation and configuration with true plug-and-play connectivity. It is not necessary to set any jump- ers or other c[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 3 2.0 Drive Specifications Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power. For convenience, the phrases the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to indicate the following drive models: Specification summary tables The s[...]

4 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 1000 and 750GB models Drive specification ST31000528AS ST3750528AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 1000GB 750GB Guaranteed sectors 1,953,525,168 1,465,149,168 Heads 4 3 Disks 2 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write h[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 5 * One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. * *During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase a coustic and[...]

6 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Table 2: Drive specifications summary for 500GB models Drive specification ST3500418AS and ST3500410AS ST3320418AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 500GB 320GB Guaranteed sectors 976,773,168 625,142,448 Heads 2 Disks 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write he[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 7 * One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. * *During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase a coustic and[...]

8 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Table 3: Drive specifications summary for 250GB models Drive specification ST3250318AS ST3160318AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 250GB 160GB Guaranteed sectors 488,397,168 312,581,808 Heads 1 Disks 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default c[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 9 * One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. * *During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase a coustic and[...]

10 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 2.1 Formatted capacity Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector ST31000528AS 1000GB 1,953,525,168 512 ST3750528AS 750GB 1,465,149,168 ST3500418AS ST3500410AS 500GB 976,773,168 ST3320418AS 320GB 625,142,448 ST3250318AS 250GB 488,397,168 ST3160318AS 160GB 312,581,808 *One Gby[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 11 2.3 Recording and interface technology Interface Serial ATA (SATA) Recording method Perpendicular Recording density (kbits/inch max) 1413 Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 236 Areal density (Gbits/inch 2 avg) 329 Spindle speed (RPM) 7,200 ± 0.2% Internal data transfer rate (Mbits/sec max) 1695 [...]

12 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 2.5 Seek time Seek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times are measured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in the table below are defined as follows: • Track-to-track seek time is an average of all possible single-track seeks in both directio[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 13 2.7 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. See Figure 2 on page 22. 2.7.1 Power consumption Power requirements for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. Typical power measurements are based on an average of drives tested, un[...]

14 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 2.7.2 Conducted noise Input noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply across an equivalent 80-ohm resistive load on the +12 volt line or an equivalent 15-ohm resistive load on the +5 volt line. • Using 12-volt power, the drive is expected to operate with a maximum of 120 mV pea[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 15 2.8 Environmental specifications 2.8.1 Ambient temperature Ambient temperature is defined as the temperature of the environment immediately surrounding the drive. Actual drive case temperature should not exceed 69°C (156°F) within the operating ambient conditions. 2.8.2 Temperature gradient O[...]

16 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 2.8.5 Shock All shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input shock applied at the drive mounting screws. Shock may be applied in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.8.5.1 Operating shock These drives comply with the performance levels specified in this document when subjected[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 17 2.9 Acoustics Drive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound power levels (no pure tones). All mea- surements are consistent with ISO document 7779. Sound power measurements are taken under essentially free-field conditions over a reflecting plane. For all tests, the drive is[...]

18 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 2.11 Warranty To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the following web page: support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp From this page, click on the “Verify Your Warranty” link. You will be asked to provide the drive serial number, model number[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 19 Korean RRL If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo, they comply with paragraph 1 of Article 11 of the Electromagnetic Compatibility control Regulation and meet the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirements of the Radio Research Laboratory (RRL) Comm[...]

20 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 2.13 Environmental protection Seagate designs its products to meet environmental protection requirements worldwide, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances. 2.13.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive The European Union Restriction of Hazardo[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 21 3.0 Configuring and Mounting the Drive This section contains the specifications and instructions for configuring and mounting the drive. 3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions After unpacking, and before installation, the drive may be exposed to potential handling and electrostatic dis- [...]

22 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Serial ATA interface connects point-to-point with the Serial ATA host adapter. There is no master/slave relationship because each drive is considered a master in a point-to-point relationship. If two drives are attached on one Serial ATA host adapter,[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 23 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-mounting holes. See Figure 3 for drive mounting dimensions. Follow these important mounting precau- tions when mounting the drive: • Allow a minimum clearanc[...]

Recommended case temperature measurement location 24 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Figure 4. Mounting dimensions (500, 320, 250 and 160GB models)[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 25 4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) Interface These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that supports FIS data transfers. It supports ATA pro- grammed input/output (PIO) modes 0 to 4; multiword DMA modes 0 to 2, and Ultra DMA modes 0 to 6. For detailed information about the Serial ATA inter[...]

26 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 8 summarizes the signals on the Serial ATA interface and power connectors. Notes: 1. All pins are in a single row, with a 1.27 mm (0.050”) pitch. 2. The comments on the mating sequence apply to the case of backplane blindmate connecto[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 27 4.3 Supported ATA commands The following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive supports. For a detailed description of the ATA commands, refer to the Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 2.6 (http://www.sata-io.org). See “S.M.A.R.T. commands” on page [...]

28 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Security Erase Prepare F3 H Security Erase Unit F4 H Security Freeze F5 H Security Set Password F1 H Security Unlock F2 H Seek 70 H Set Features EF H Set Max Address F9 H Note: Individual Set Max Address commands are identified by the value placed in the Set Max Features regis- ter as defined t[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 29 4.3.1 Identify Device command The Identify Device command (command code EC H ) transfers information about the drive to the host following power up. The data is organized as a single 512-byte block of data, whose contents are shown in Table 9 on page 27. All reserved bits or words should be set[...]

30 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 60–61 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available (see Section 2.1 for related information) *Note: The maximum value allowed in this field is: 0FFFFFFFh (268,435,455 sectors, 137GB). Drives with capacities over 137GB will have 0FFFFFFFh in this field and the actual number of user-a[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 31 Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not supported Note. See the bit descriptions below for words 63, 84, and 88 of the Identify Drive data. 104–107 ATA-reserved 0000 H 108–111 The mandatory value of the world wide name (WWN) for the dri[...]

32 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Bit Word 88 0 Ultra DMA mode 0 is supported. 1 Ultra DMA mode 1 is supported. 2 Ultra DMA mode 2 is supported. 3 Ultra DMA mode 3 is supported. 4 Ultra DMA mode 4 is supported. 5 Ultra DMA mode 5 is supported. 6 Ultra DMA mode 6 is supported. 8 Ultra DMA mode 0 is currently active. 9 Ultra DMA [...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 33 4.3.2 Set Features command This command controls the implementation of various features that the drive supports. When the drive receives this command, it sets BSY, checks the contents of the Features register, clears BSY and generates an inter- rupt. If the value in the register does not repres[...]

34 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands S.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disk drives. When S.M.A.R.T. is enabled, the drive moni- tors predetermined drive attributes that are susceptible to degradation over time. If self-monitoring determines that a failure is likely, S.M.A.R.T. makes a s[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 35 5.0 Seagate Technology Support Services For information regarding online support and services, visit http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/ contact_us/ Available services include: • Presales & Technical support • Global Support Services telephone numbers & business hours • Author[...]

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Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 37 Index A ACA 19 acceleration 16 acoustics 17 Active 14 Active mode 14 Agency certification 18 altitude 15 Ambient temperature 15 ambient temperature 12 , 13 Annualized Failure Rate 18 areal density 11 ATA commands 27 Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 19 Australian Communication Author[...]

38 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Initialize Device Parameters 27 Input noise ripple 14 input voltage 13 interface 11 , 25 interference 19 internal data-transfer rate OD 11 is 12 ISO document 7779 17 ITE 18 K KCC 19 Korean Communications Commission 19 Korean RRL 19 L latency 12 LBA mode 10 length 11 logical geometry 10 M master[...]

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 39 Security Erase Prepare 28 Security Erase Unit 28 Security Freeze 28 Security Set Password 28 Security Unlock 28 See “S.M.A.R.T. commands” on page 34 27 Seek 28 Seek time 12 Serial ATA (SATA) interface 25 serial ATA ports 2 servo electronics 13 Set Features 28 Set Max Address 28 Set Max Addr[...]

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