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    Product Manual Barracuda 7200.12 Serial A T A 100529369 Re v . B F ebruary 2009 ST31000528AS ST3750528AS ST3500418AS ST3500410AS ST3320418AS ST3250318AS ST3160318AS[...]

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    Revision history Copyright © 2008-2009 Se agate T echnology LL C. All rights reserv ed. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100529369 , Rev . B, February 2009 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 ei[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B i Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.0 [...]

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    ii Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 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, Re v. B 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functiona l, mechanical an d interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda ® 7200.12 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 s[...]

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    2 Barracuda 7200.1 2 Serial ATA Product Manua l, Rev. B 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 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 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: S pecification summary tab[...]

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    4 Barracuda 7200.1 2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B T able 1: Drive specifications summary for 100 0 and 750 Gbyte models Drive specification ST31000528AS ST3750528AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 1000 Gbytes 750 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 1,953,525,168 1,465,149,168 Heads 4 3 Discs 2 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Def[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 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 coust[...]

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    6 Barracuda 7200.1 2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B T able 2: Drive specifications summary for 500 Gbyte models Drive specification ST3500418AS and ST3500410AS ST3320418AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 500 Gbytes 320 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 976.773,168 625,142,448 Heads 2 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Defau[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 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 coust[...]

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    8 Barracuda 7200.1 2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B T able 3: Drive specifications summary for 250 Gbyte models Drive specification ST3250318AS ST3160318AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 250 Gbytes 160 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 488,397,168 312,581,808 Heads 1 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write he[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 9 * 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 coust[...]

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    10 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.1 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. 2.1.1 LBA mode When addressing these d rives in LBA mode, all bloc ks ( sectors) are consecutively numbered fr[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 11 2.3 Recording and interface tec hnology 2.4 Physical characteristics Interface Serial A T A (SA T A) Recording method Perpendicu lar Recording de nsity (kbit s/inch max) 1413 T rack density (ktracks/inch avg) 236 Areal density (Gbits/inch 2 avg) 329 S pindle speed (RPM) 7,200 ± 0.2% Internal [...]

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    12 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.5 Seek time Seek measurement s are taken with nominal p ower at 25°C ambient temper ature. All time s 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 bot[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 13 2.7 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+ 5V or +12V) thro ugh a na tive SA T A power connector . See Figure 2 on page 22. 2.7.1 Power co nsumption Power requirement s for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. T ypical power measurement s are based on an average of drives[...]

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    14 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.7.2 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 power , the drive is ex pected to operate with a maximum of 1[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 15 2.8 Environment al specifications 2.8.1 Ambient tempe rature Ambient temperature is defined as th e temperature of the envi ronment immediatel y surroundin g the drive. Actual drive c ase temper ature shou ld not exce ed 69 °C (156°F) within the operating ambient conditions. 2.8.2 T emperatu[...]

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    16 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.8.5 Shoc k All shock specifications assu me that the drive is mounted secu rely 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 t he performance levels specified in this document when subj[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 17 2.9 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 surements are ta ken under essentially free-field conditions over a reflecting plane. Fo r all te sts, th[...]

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    18 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.1 1 Reliability 2.1 1.1 Annualized Failure Rate ( AFR) and Mean T ime Between Failure s (MTBF) The product shall achieve an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.32% (MTB F of 0.75 million hours) when oper- ated in an envir onment of ambient air tem peratur es of 25 ° C. Operation at temperatu[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 19 Korean RRL If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo , they comply with paragraph 1 of Article 1 1 of the El ectromagnetic Compatib ility control Regulation and meet the Electrom agnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework require ments of the Ra dio Resear ch Laboratory ([...]

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    20 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.13 Environmental protection Seagate designs it s products to meet envir onmental pr otection requirement s worldwide, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances. 2.13.1 European Un ion Restriction of Hazardous Subst ances (RoHS) Directive The Europea n Union Restriction of[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 21 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 po tential handling and electrostatic[...]

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    22 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Seri al A T A interface connects point-to-point with the Serial 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 [...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 23 3.4 Drive mounting Y ou can mount the drive in any orient ation using four screws in the side- mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-mo unting hole s. See Figure 3 for drive mo unting dime nsions. Fo llow these imp ortant mounting p recau- tions when m ounting the drive: • Allow a mini[...]

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    24 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Figure 4. Mounting d imensions (500, 320, 250 and 160 GB models) Recommended case temperature measurement location[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 25 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 data transfers. It suppor ts 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 Se[...]

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    26 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 4.2 Serial A T A device plug connector pin definitions Table 8 summarizes the sig nals on the Se rial 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 blindmate[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 27 4.3 Supported A T A commands The following t able lists Seria l A T A standard commands th at the drive supports. For a det ailed description of the A T A commands, refe r to the Serial A T A International Organization: Serial A T A Revision 2.6 (http://www .sata-io.org). See “S.M.A.R.T . co[...]

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    28 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 identifie d by the value placed in the Set Max Features regis - ter as define[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 29 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 able 9 on page 27. All reserved bit s or words shoul[...]

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    30 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 60–61 T otal number of user-addressable LBA sectors available (see Section 2.1 for related information) *Note: The maximum value all owed in this field is: 0FFF FFFFh (268,435,455 sectors, 137 Gbytes). Drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes will have 0FFFFFFF h in this field and the actual n[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 31 Note. Advance d Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acou stic Manage ment (AAM) feat ures are not supp orted Note. See the bit descriptio ns below for words 63 , 84, and 88 of the Identify Drive data. 104–107 A T A-reserved 0000 H 108–1 1 1 The mandatory value of the worl d wide name (WWN[...]

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    32 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 15 Shall be cleared to 0. Bit Wor d 8 8 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 c[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 33 4.3.2 Set Featu res comman d This command controls the implement ation of various feat ures that th e drive supports. 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 [...]

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    34 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T . commands S.M.A.R.T . provides near-term failure prediction for disc drives. When S.M.A.R.T . is enabled, the drive moni- tors predetermined drive attributes that are suscep t ible to degradation ove r time. If self-monitoring determin es that a failure is likely , S.M.A.R.T .[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 35 5.0 Seagate T echnology support services Internet For information regardin g Seagate product s and services, visit www .sea gate.com . Worldwide support is available 24 hours daily by e-mail for your questions. Presales Support: Presales@Seagate.com T echnical Support: DiscSupport@Seagate.com [...]

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    36 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Customer Service Operations W arranty Service Seagate of fers worldwide customer support for Seagate product s. Seagate distributor s, OEMs and ot her direct customers should contact their Seagate Customer Serv ice Operat ions (CSO) re presentative for warr anty- related issues. Resellers or e[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 37 Index A ACA 19 acceleration 16 acoustics 17 Active 14 Active m ode 14 AFR 18 Agency certification 18 altitude 15 Ambient tempera ture 15 ambient temper ature 12 , 13 Annualized Failure Rate 18 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 18 areal density 1 , 11 ATA commands 27 Australia/New Zealan d Standard[...]

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    38 Barracuda 7200.12 Ser ial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B I/O duty cycle 18 Identify Devic e 27 Identify Devic e command 29 Idle 14 , 27 Idle Immediat e 27 Idle mode 13 , 14 Information Technology Equipm ent (ITE) 18 Initialize Device Parameters 27 Input noise ripple 14 input voltage 13 interface 11 , 25 interferen ce 19 internal da ta-transfer rate [...]

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    Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 39 S.M.A.R.T. Execute Offline 28 S.M.A.R.T. implement ation 27 S.M.A.R.T. Read At tribute Th resholds 28 S.M.A.R.T. Read Data 28 S.M.A.R.T. Read Log Sector 28 S.M.A.R.T. Return Status 28 S.M.A.R.T. Save Attribute Values 28 S.M.A.R.T. Write Log se ctor 28 Safety certification 18 SATA 25 screws 16 [...]

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    Seagate T echnology LLC 920 Disc Drive , Scotts V all ey , California 95066-4544, USA Publication Number: 1005293 69, Rev . B, Printed in U.S.A.[...]