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    Product Manual SV35 Series TM 100687219 Rev. C June 2012 ST3000VX000 ST2000VX000 ST1000VX000[...]

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    © 2012 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Publication number: 100687219, Rev. C June 2012 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/ or other countries. SV35 Series and SeaTools are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one [...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Contents Seagate Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.1 About [...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Figures Figure 1 Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Figure 2 Mounting dimensions (3-disk: 3TB and 2TB models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Figure 3 Mounting dimensions (1-Disk: 1T[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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 Warr[...]

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    8 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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: • Enterprise-class reliability for 24×7 video surveillance applications • Thermal monitoring and reporting[...]

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    10 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Introduction www.seagate.com The SATA interface connects each disk drive in a point-to-point configuration with the SATA host adapter. There is no master/slave relationship with SATA devices like there is with parallel ATA. If two drives are attached on one SATA host adapter, the host operating system view[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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 specific[...]

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    12 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Drive Specifications www.seagate.com *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 drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 13 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.2 Formatted capacity *One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity m ay vary depending on operating environment and formatting. 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all[...]

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    14 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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 avera[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 15 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. Refer to Figure 1 on page 24 . 2.8.1 Power consumption Power requirements for the drives are listed in Table 2 and Table 3 . Typical power measurements are based on[...]

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    16 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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. †DIPLM Enabled 2.8.2 Conducted noise Input noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 17 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 th[...]

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    18 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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. Ref[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 19 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 1TB model 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 duration. 2.9.5.3 Operating vibra[...]

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    20 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.11 Electromagnetic immunity When properly installed in a representative host system, the drive operates without errors or degradation in performance when subjected to the radio frequency (RF) environments defined in Table 4 . 2.12 AFR and Warranty The product will ach[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 21 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.13 Agency certification 2.13.1 Safety certification These products are certified to meet the requirements of UL60950-1, CSA60950-1 and EN60950 and so marked as to the certify agency. 2.13.2 Electromagnetic compatibility Hard drives that display the CE mark comply with[...]

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    22 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Drive Specifications www.seagate.com If necessary, you should consult your dealer or an experienced radio/television technician for additional suggestions. You may find helpful the following booklet prepared by the Federal Communications Commission: How to Identify and Resolve Radio-Television Interference[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 23 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) h[...]

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    24 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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 [...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 25 www.seagate.com Configuring and Mounting the Drive Figure 3 Mounting dimensions (1-Disk: 1TB) Temperature Check Point[...]

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    26 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 27 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 “Seri[...]

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    28 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C SATA Interface www.seagate.com 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 connector only. In this case, the mating sequences are: • the ground pins P4 and P12. • the pre-charge power pins and th[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 29 www.seagate.com SATA Interface Device Reset 08 H 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 Re[...]

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    30 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C SATA Interface www.seagate.com Set Max Address F9 H 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 C[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 31 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 28. All reserved bits or words sh[...]

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    32 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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,[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 33 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 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 drives that support the 48-bit addressin[...]

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    34 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C SATA Interface www.seagate.com 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 registe[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 35 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 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[...]

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    36 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C SATA Interface www.seagate.com DA H S.M.A.R.T. Return Status Note If an appropriate code is not written to the Features Register, the command is aborted and 0 x 04 (abort) is written to the Error register. Code in features register S.M.A.R.T. command[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 37 www.seagate.com SATA Interface[...]

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    38 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C SATA Interface www.seagate.com[...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 39 A ACA 21 acceleration 19 acoustics 19 Active 17 Active mode 17 Agency certification 21 altitude 18 Ambient temperature 18 ambient temperature 14, 15 Annualized Failure Rate 21 areal density 13 ATA commands 28 Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 21 Australian Communication Authority (ACA) 21 Austra[...]

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    40 SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C mounting screws 18 mounting the drive 23 N noise 16 nominal power 14 Nonoperating shock 18 Nonoperating vibration 19 O operating 15, 16 Operating power 15 Operating shock 18 Operating vibration 19 P Physical characteristics 14 point-to-point 10, 23 Power consumption 15 power dissipation 15, 16 Power modes [...]

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    SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 41 Track-to-track 14 Track-to-track seek time 14 U UL60950-1 21 V voltage 15 Voltage dips, interrupts 20 Voltage tolerance 17 W weight 14 wet bulb temperature 18 width 14 Write Buffer 30 Write DMA 30 Write DMA Extended 30 Write DMA FUA Extended 30 Write DMA Without Retries 30 Write Log Extended 30 Write Multi[...]

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