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    Product Manual Barracuda ES.2 Serial A T A 100468393 Re v . A A ugust 2007 ST31000340NS ST3750330NS ST3500320NS ST3250310NS[...]

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    Revision history Copyright © 2007 Seagate T echnology LLC. All right s reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100468393, Rev . A August 2007 Seagate, Seagate T echnology and the W ave logo ar e registere d trademarks of Seagate T echnology LLC in the United S tates and/or other countries. Barr acuda, SeaT ools and SeaTDD are either tradem[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A i Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.0 Driv[...]

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    ii Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A iii List of Figures Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation c urrent profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Figure 3. Serial [...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functiona l, mechanical an d interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda ® ES.2 Serial A T A model drives: These drives provide the following key fea tures: • 7,200 RPM spindl e speed. • High instant aneous (burst) da ta-tran sfer rat[...]

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    2 B arracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Prod uct Manual , Rev. A 1.1 About the Serial A T A interface The Serial A T A interface provides several ad vanta ges over the traditional (p arallel) A T A interf ace. The p rimary advantages include : • Easy installation and configuration with true plug-and-play connectivity . It is not necessary to set any jump - [...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3 2.0 Drive specifications Unless otherwise noted, all specific ations are me asured unde r ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power . For convenienc e, the ph rases the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to in dicate the following drive models: 2.1 Spec ification summary t a[...]

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    4 B arracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Prod uct Manual , Rev. A T able 1: Drive specifications summary for 1000 GB (1 Tbyte) and 750 GB models Drive specification ST31000340NS ST3750330NS Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 1000 750 Guaranteed sectors 1,953,525,168 1,465,149,168 Heads 8 6 Discs 4 3 Bytes per secto r 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default [...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 5 * On e Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating envir onment and formatting. * *During pe riods of drive idle, some offli ne activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase a coustic a[...]

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    6 B arracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Prod uct Manual , Rev. A T able 2: Drive specifications summary for 500 GB and 250 GB models Drive specification ST3500320NS ST3250310NS Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 500 250 Guaranteed sectors 976,773,168 488,397,168 Heads 4 2 Discs 2 1 Bytes per secto r 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads [...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 7 * On e Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating envir onment and formatting. * *During pe riods of drive idle, some offli ne activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase a coustic a[...]

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    8 B arracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Prod uct Manual , Rev. A 2.2 Formatted cap acity *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referri ng to hard drive capacity. Accessible c apa city may vary dependin g on operating envir onment and formatting. 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these d rives in LBA mode, all bloc ks ( sectors) are consecutively numbered from[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 9 2.4 Recording and interface tec hnology 2.5 Physical characteristics 1000GB 750GB 500GB 250GB Interface Serial A T A (SA T A) Recording method Perpendicular Recording density , KBPI (kbits/inch max) 1,090 T rack density , KTPI (ktracks/inch avg) 150 Areal density (Gbits/inch 2 avg) 164 S pindle spe[...]

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    10 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A 2.6 Seek time Seek measurement s are taken with nominal p ower at 25°C ambient temper ature. All ti mes are meas ured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in th e table belo w are defined as follows: • T rack-to-track seek time is an average of al l possible single-track seeks in both [...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 11 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+ 5V or +12V) thro ugh a na tive SA T A powe r connector . See Figure 4 on page 24. 2.8.1 Power co nsumption Power requirement s for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. T ypical power measurements ar e based on an average of drives te[...]

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    12 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A 2.8.1.1 T yp ical current profiles Figure 1. T y pical 5V startup and operation current profile[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 13 Figure 2. T ypical 12V startup and operatio n current profile 2.8.2 C onducted noise Input noise ripp le is measured at th e host system powe r supply across an equivalent 80-ohm resistive load o n the +12 volt line or an equival ent 15-ohm resistive load on the +5 volt line. • Using 12-volt pow[...]

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    14 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A 2.8.4 Power-man agement mo des The drive provides prog rammable power man agement to provide greater energy effici ency . In most systems, you can control power manage ment through the system setup program. The drive features the following power-management mod es: • Active mode The drive is in[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 15 2.9 Environment al specifications 2.9.1 Ambient tempe rature Ambient temperature is defined as th e temperature of the envi ronment immedi atel y surrounding the d rive. Actual drive c ase temper ature shou ld not exce ed 60 °C (140°F) within the operating ambient conditions. Above 1,000 feet (3[...]

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    16 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A 2.9.6 Vibration All vibration specifications assume that the drive is mounted secure ly with the input vibration applied at the drive mounting screws. V ibration may be applied in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.9.6.1 Operating vibr ation The maximum vibration levels tha t the drive may expe rience while [...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 17 2.10 Acoustics Drive acoustics are measur ed as overall A- weighted ac oustic sound power levels (no pure tones). All mea- surements ar e consistent with ISO document 7779. S ound power mea surement s are taken under esse ntially free-field conditions over a reflecting plane. Fo r all te sts, the [...]

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    18 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A 2.12 Reliability 2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) an d Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF ) The product shall achieve an Annua lized Failure Rate - AFR - of 0.73% (Mean T ime Between Failures - MTBF - of 1.2 Million hrs) when operated in an env ironment that ensures the HDA case temperatures d[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 19 Korean RRL If these drives have the Korea Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) logo, th ey comply with para- graph 1 of Article 1 1 of the Electr omagnetic Compatibility control Regula tion and meet th e Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirement s of the Radio Research L[...]

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    20 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A 2.14 Environment al protection Seagate designs it s products to meet envir onmental p r otection requirement s worldwide, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances. 2.14.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Subst ances (RoHS) Directive Seagate designs it s products to me[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 21 exposed to an ambient re lative humid ity greater t han 95%. Materials used in cabinet fabrication, such as vulca- nized rubber , that can outgas corrosive compou nds should be minimized or eliminat ed. The useful life of any electronic equip ment may be extended by replacing ma terials nea r circ[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 23 3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive This section contains the specif ications an d instructions for configuring and mounting the drive. 3.1 Handling and st atic-discharge precautions After unp acking, and before installation, the drive may be exposed to pote ntial handling and electrostatic dis[...]

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    24 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Seri al A T A interface connects point-to-point with the Seri al A T A host adapter . There is no master/slave rela tionship becaus e each drive is consider ed a master in a point- to-point relationship. If two drives are attached on one Serial A T A h[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 25 3.4 Drive mounting Y ou ca n mount the drive in a ny orientation u s ing four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-mo unting hole s. See Figure 5 for drive mo unting dime nsions. Fo llow these imp ortant mounting p recau- tions when m ounting the drive: • Allow a minimu[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 27 4.0 Serial A T A (SA T A) interface These drives use the industry-s tandard Ser ial A T A interfac e that supp orts FIS dat a transfers. It supports A T A programmed input/o utput (PIO) modes 0–4; mult iword DMA modes 0–2, and Ultra DM A modes 0–6. For det ailed information abou t the Serial[...]

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    28 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A 4.2 Serial A T A device plug conn ector pin definitions Table 6 summarizes the sig nals on the Se ria l ATA interface and power conn ectors. Notes: 1. All pins are in a single row , with a 1.27 mm (0.050”) pitch. 2. The comment s on the mating sequence a pply to the case of backplane blindma t[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 29 4.3 Supported A T A commands The following t able list s Serial A T A standard comman ds that the drive suppo rts. For a det ailed description of the A T A commands, refer to the Serial A T A: High S peed Serialized A T Att a chment specification . See “S.M.A.R.T . commands” on pa ge 36.for de[...]

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    30 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A 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 identifie d by the value placed in the Set Max Features regis - ter as defined to the right. Address: Passw[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 31 4.3.1 Identify Dev ice command The Identify Device command (command code EC H ) transfers information about the drive to the host following power up. The da ta is organized as a sing le 512-byte blo ck of data, whose conten ts are shown in T abl e 7 on page 29. All reserved bit s or words should b[...]

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    32 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A 60–61 T otal 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, 137 Gbytes). Drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes will have 0FFFFFFFh in this fi eld and the actual numbe[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 33 129– 159 Seagate-reserved xxxx H 160– 254 A T A-reserved 0000 H 255 Integ rity word xxA5 H Word Description V alue[...]

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    34 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A Note. See the bit descriptio ns below for words 63 , 88, and 93 of the Identify Drive data. Description (if bit is set to 1) Bit Wor d 6 3 0 Multiword DMA mode 0 is supported . 1 Multiword DMA mode 1 is supported . 2 Multiword DMA mode 2 is supported . 8 Multiword DMA mode 0 is currently active.[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 35 4.3.2 Set Featu res comman d This command controls the implement ation of various feat ures that th e drive support s. When the drive receives this command, it sets BSY , checks the contents of the Featur es register , clears BSY and generate s an inter- rupt. If the value in the register does n o[...]

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    36 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T . commands S.M.A.R.T . provides near-term failure prediction fo r disc drives. When S.M.A.R.T . is ena bled, the drive moni- tors predetermined drive attributes that are suscep t ible to degradation over time. If self- monitoring determines that a failure is likely , S.M.A.R.T . [...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 37 5.0 Seagate T echnology support services Online services Internet For information regarding Se agate products and ser vices, visit www .sea gate.com . Worldwide support is available 24 hours da ily by email for your questions. Presales Support: Presales@Seagate.com T echnical Support: DiscSupport@[...]

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    38 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A Customer Service Operations W arranty Service Seagate of fers worldwide customer support for Seagate products. Seagate di stributor s, OEMs and ot her dire ct customers should contact their Seagate Customer Serv ice Operations (CSO) re presentative for wa rranty- related issues. Resellers or e n[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 39 Publication feedback survey We ar e interested in your comment s and suggestions re ga rding this publication. Please t ake a few minutes to participate in our survey at the following URL: http://sur v ey .sea gate.com/surv ey/te chpubs. nsf Thank you for your time and comment s.[...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 41 Index A ACA 19 acceleration 16 acoustics 17 Active 14 Active m ode 14 actuator arm 11 Agency certification 18 altitude 15 Ambient tempera ture 15 ambient temper ature 10 , 11 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 18 areal density 1 , 9 ATA commands 29 Australia/New Zeala nd Standard AS/ NZS3548 1995 19 Au[...]

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    42 Barracuda ES.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. A I I/O data-tr ansfer rate 9 Identify Devic e 29 Identify Devic e command 31 Idle 14 , 29 Idle Immediat e 29 Idle mode 11 , 14 IEC950 18 Information Technology Equipm ent (ITE) 18 Initialize Device Parameters 29 Input noise ripple 13 input voltage 11 interface 9 , 27 internal da ta-transfer rate [...]

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    Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 43 S S.M.A.R.T. Disable Operations 30 S.M.A.R.T. Enable O p erations 30 S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Autosave 30 S.M.A.R.T. Execute Offline 30 S.M.A.R.T. implement ation 29 S.M.A.R.T. Read At tribute Th resholds 30 S.M.A.R.T. Read Data 30 S.M.A.R.T. Read Log Sector 30 S.M.A.R.T. Return Status 30 S.M.A.R[...]

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    Seagate T echnolog y LLC 920 Disc Drive , Scotts V all ey , California 95066-4544, USA Publication Number: 1004683 93, Rev . A, Printed in U.S.A.[...]