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    Product Manual Barracuda ® Gen 14 100686584 Rev. E June 2012 ST3000DM001 ST2000DM001 ST1500DM003 ST1000DM003 ST750DM003 ST500DM002 ST320DM000 ST250DM000[...]

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    © 2012 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Publication number: 100686584, Rev. E June 2012 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/ or other countries. Barracuda and SeaTools are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Contents Seagate Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.1 About th[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Figures Figure 1 Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Figure 2 Mounting dimensions (3-disk: 3TB, 2TB; 2-disk: 1.5TB models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Figure 3 Mounting dimensions (1-disk: 1TB and 75[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 7 For information regarding online support and services, visit http://www .seag ate.com/www/en-us/about/ contact_us/ Available services include: • Presales & Technical support • Global Support Services telephone numbers & business hours • Authorized Service Centers For information regarding Warran[...]

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    8 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 9 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda ® model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 7200 RPM spindle speed. • High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 600MB per second). • TGMR[...]

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    10 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Introduction www.seagate.com The SATA host adapter contains a set of registers that shadow the contents of the traditional device registers, referred to as the Shadow Register Block. All SATA devices behave like Device 0 devices. For additional information about how SATA emulates parallel ATA, refer to the ?[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 11 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: 2.1 Specification summary tables The specificat[...]

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    12 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Drive Specifications www.seagate.com *All specifications above are based on native configurations. ** One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. * ** During periods of[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 13 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications Table 2 Drive specifications summary for 500GB, 320GB and 250GB models Drive Specification* ST500DM002 ST320DM000 ST250DM000 Formatted capacity** 500GB 320GB 250GB Guaranteed sectors 976,773,168 625,142,448 488,397,168 Heads 2 2 1 Disks 1 1 1 Bytes per sector (4K physical[...]

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    14 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Drive Specifications www.seagate.com * All specifications above are based on native configurations. ** One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. * ** During periods o[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 15 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.3 Default logical geometry • Cylinders : 16,383 • Read/write heads : 16 • Sectors per track : 63 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1, where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defi[...]

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    16 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.5 Physical characteristics 2.6 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[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 17 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.7 Start/stop times Time-to-ready may be longer than normal if the drive power is removed without going through normal OS powerdown procedures. 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. Refer to Figure 1 on [...]

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    18 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Drive Specifications www.seagate.com * During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase ac oustic and power to operational levels. †5W IDLE with DIPLM Enabled 2.8.2 Conducted noise Input noise ripple is measured at the host system p[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 19 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.8.3 Voltage tolerance Voltage tolerance (including noise): •5 V ±5% • 12V +10% / -7.5% 2.8.4 Power-management modes The drive provides programmable power management to provide greater energy efficiency. In most systems, you can control power management through the [...]

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    20 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.9 Environmental specifications 2.9.1 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. Refer[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 21 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 1TB, 750GB, 500GB, 320GB and 250GB models The non-operating shock level that the drive can experience without incurring physical damage or degradation in performance when subsequently put into operation is 350 Gs based on a non-repetitive half-sine shock pulse of 2-ms dur[...]

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    22 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.10.1 Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs) Seagate follows the ECMA-74 standards for measurement and identification of PDTs. An exception to this process is the use of the absolute threshold of hearing. Seagate uses this threshold curve (originated in ISO 389- 7) to [...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 23 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 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 Researc[...]

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    24 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.14.2 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive This product has an Environmental Protection Use Period (EPUP) of 20 years. The following table contains information mandated by China's "Marking Requirements for Control of Pollution Caused by El[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 25 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 discharge (ESD) haz[...]

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    26 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com Figure 1 Attaching SATA cabling Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. Barracuda drives support latching SATA connectors. 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 27 www.seagate.com Configuring and Mounting the Drive Figure 3 Mounting dimensions (1-disk: 1TB and 750GB models) Temperature Check Point[...]

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    28 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com Figure 4 Mounting dimensions (1-disk: 500GB, 320GB and 250GB models) Recommended case temperature measurement location[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 29 4.0 SATA Interface These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA (SATA) interface that supports FIS data transfers. It supports ATA programmed 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 SATA interface, refer to the “Serial[...]

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    30 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E SATA Interface www.seagate.com Notes 1. All pins are in a single row, with a 1.27 mm (0.050 in) pitch. 2. The comments on the mating sequence apply to the case of backplane blindmate connector only. In this case, the mating sequences are: • the ground pins P4 and P12. • the pre-charge power pins and the [...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 31 www.seagate.com SATA Interface Download Microcode 92 H Execute Device Diagnostics 90 H Flush Cache E7 H Flush Cache Extended EA H Format Track 50 H Identify Device EC H Idle E3 H Idle Immediate E1 H Initialize Device Parameters 91 H Read Buffer E4 H Read DMA C8 H Read DMA Extended 25 H Read DMA Without Retri[...]

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    32 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E SATA Interface www.seagate.com Note: Individual Set Max Address commands are identified by the value placed in the Set Max Features register as defined to the right. Address: Password: Lock: Unlock: Freeze Lock: 00 H 01 H 02 H 03 H 04 H Set Max Address Extended 37 H Set Multiple Mode C6 H Sleep E6 H S.M.A.R.[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 33 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 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 on page 30. All reserved bits or words shou[...]

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    34 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E SATA Interface www.seagate.com 59 Number of sectors transferred during a Read Multiple or Write Multiple command xxxx H 60–61 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available (see Section 2.2 for related information) *Note: The maximum value allowed in this field is: 0FFFFFFFh (268,435,455 sectors, 1[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 35 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 92 Master password revision code FFFE H 93 Hardware reset value xxxx H 94 Automatic acoustic management 8080 H 95–99 ATA-reserved 0000 H 100–103 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available (see Section 2.2 for related information). These words are required for dr[...]

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    36 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E SATA Interface www.seagate.com 2 Media serial number is supported. 3 Media Card Pass Through Command feature set is supported. 4 Streaming feature set is supported. 5 GPL feature set is supported. 6 WRITE DMA FUA EXT and WRITE MULTIPLE FUA EXT commands are supported. 7 WRITE DMA QUEUED FUA EXT command is sup[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 37 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 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 interrupt. If the value in the register [...]

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    38 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E SATA Interface www.seagate.com 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 monitors predetermined drive attributes that are susceptible to degradation over time. If self-monitoring determines that a failure is likely, S.M.A[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 39 A ACA 23 acceleration 21 acoustics 21 Active 19 Active mode 19 Agency certification 22 altitude 20 Ambient temperature 20 ambient temperature 16, 17 areal density 15 ATA commands 30 Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 23 Australian Communication Authority (ACA) 23 Australian C-Tick 23 Average latenc[...]

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    40 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E mounting the drive 25 N noise 18 nominal power 16 Nonoperating shock 20 Nonoperating vibration 21 O operating 17, 18 Operating power 17 Operating shock 20 Operating vibration 21 P Physical characteristics 16 point-to-point 9, 25 Power consumption 17 power dissipation 17, 18 Power modes 19 Power specification[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 41 U UL60950-1 22 V voltage 17 Voltage dips, interrupts 22 Voltage tolerance 19 W weight 16 wet bulb temperature 20 width 16 Write Buffer 32 Write DMA 32 Write DMA Extended 32 Write DMA FUA Extended 32 Write DMA Without Retries 32 Write Log Extended 32 Write Multiple 32 Write Multiple Extended 32 Write Multiple[...]

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