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    Product Manual Barracuda ES Serial A T A 100424667 Re v . D September 20 07 ST3750640NS ST3500630NS ST3400620NS ST3250620NS ST3320620NS ST3750840NS ST3500830NS ST3400820NS ST3250820NS ST3320820NS[...]

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    Revision history Copyright © 2006 - 2007 Seagate T echnology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in USA Publication number: 1004 24667, Rev . D September 2007 Seagate, Seagate T echnology and the W ave logo ar e registered tradem arks of Seagate T echnology LLC in the United S tates and/or other countries. Barr acuda, SeaT ools and SeaTDD are either[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D i Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.0 Drive[...]

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    ii Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product M anual, Rev. D[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Manu al, Rev. D iii List of Figures Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation c urrent profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Figure 3. Serial A[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functiona l, mechanical an d interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda ® ES 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 rates [...]

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    2 Barracuda ES Se rial ATA Product Man ual, Rev. D 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 prim ary advantages include : • Easy installation and configuration with true plug-and-play connectivity . It is not necessary to set any jump - ers[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 3 2.0 Drive specifications Unless otherwise noted, all specific ations are meas ured under a mbient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power . For convenienc e, the ph rases the drive and this drive are used throughout this manu al to indicate the following drive models: 2.1 Spec ification summary t ab[...]

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    4 Barracuda ES Se rial ATA Product Man ual, Rev. D T able 1: Drive specifications summary for 750 Gb yte models Drive specification ST3750640NS ST3750840NS Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 750 Guaranteed sectors 1,465,149,168 Heads 8 8 Discs 4 4 Bytes per secto r 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 5 * One Gbyt e equals one billion bytes when r eferring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment 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 an[...]

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    6 Barracuda ES Se rial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D T able 2: Drive specifications summary for 500 Gbyte models Drive specification ST3500630NS ST3500830NS Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 500 Guaranteed sectors 976,773,168 Heads 6 Discs 3 Bytes per secto r 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,383 Reco[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 7 * One Gbyt e equals one billion bytes when r eferring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment 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 an[...]

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    8 Barracuda ES Se rial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D T able 3: Drive specifications summary for 400 Gbyte models Drive specification ST3400620NS ST3400820NS Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 400 Guaranteed sectors 781,422,7 68 Heads 5 Discs 3 Bytes per secto r 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,383 Rec[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 9 * One Gbyt e equals one billion bytes when r eferring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment 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 an[...]

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    10 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D T able 4: Drive specifications summary for 320 Gbyte models Drive specification ST3320620NS ST3320820NS Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 320 Guaranteed sectors 625,142,4 48 Heads 4 Discs 2 Bytes per secto r 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,383 [...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 11 * One Gbyt e equals one billion bytes when r eferring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment 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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    12 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D T able 5: Drive specifications summary for 250 Gbyte models Drive specification ST3250620NS ST3250820N S Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 250 Guaranteed sectors 488,397,168 Heads 3 Discs 2 Bytes per secto r 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,383 [...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 13 * One Gbyt e equals one billion bytes when r eferring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment 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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    14 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D 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 environment and formatting. 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these d rives in LBA mode, all bloc ks ( sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 15 2.4 Recording and interface tec hnology 2.5 Physical characteristics 750GB 500GB 400GB 320GB 250GB Interface Serial A T A (SA T A) Recording method Perpendicular Recording density , KBPI (kbits/inch max) 926 813 781 813 T rack density , KTPI (ktracks/inch avg) 145 Areal density (Gbits/inch 2 avg) 1[...]

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    16 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D 2.6 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 both d[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 17 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 28. 2.8.1 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 tes[...]

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    18 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D 2.8.1.1 T yp ical current profiles Figure 1. T y pical 5V startup and operation current profile Figure 2. T ypical 12V startup and operation cu rrent profile 2.8.2 C onducted noise Input noise ripp le is measured at the ho st system powe r supply across an equivalent 80-oh m resistive load on the[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 19 2.8.4 Power-man agement mo des The drive provides progr ammable powe r management to provide gr eater 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 A[...]

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    20 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D 2.9 Environment al specifications 2.9.1 Ambient tempe rature Ambient temperatur e is defined as the temperatur e of the environment im mediatel y surrounding the drive. Actual drive c ase temperat ure should not exceed 6 0°C (140° F) within the o perating ambi ent conditions . Above 1,000 feet [...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 21 2.9.6 Vibration All vibration specifications assume that the drive is mounted secur e ly with the input vibration applied at the drive mountin g screws. Vibration m ay 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 rie nce while [...]

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    22 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D 2.1 1 Electromagnetic immunity When properly installed in a represen tative host system , the drive operates without errors or degr adation in performance when subjected to the radio frequency (RF) environment s defined in the following table: T able 8: Radio frequency env ironment s T est Descri[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 23 2.12 Reliability 2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Betwe en Failures (MTBF ) The product shall achi eve an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.73% (MTBF of 1.2 million hours) when oper- ated in an en vironment tha t ensures the HDA case temper atures do no t exceed 40 ° C. Operatio[...]

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    24 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D Korean RRL If these drives have the Korea Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) logo, th ey comply with p ara- graph 1 of Article 1 1 of the Electr omagnetic Compatibility co ntrol Regulation and me et the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirement s of the Radio Research[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 25 2.14 Environment al protection Seagate des igns its products to meet enviro nmental pr otection requirements wor ldwide, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances. 2.14.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Subst ances (RoHS) Directive Seagate des igns its products to meet e[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 27 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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    28 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D 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 rela tionship. If two drives are attached on one Serial A T A ho[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 29 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 holes. Se e Figure 5 f or drive mount ing dimens ions. Follow thes e important moun ting precau- tions when m ounting the drive: • Allow a minimum[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 31 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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    32 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D 4.2 Serial A T A device plug conn ector pin definitions Table 9 summarizes the sig nals on the Se ria l ATA interface and power co nnectors. 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 Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 33 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 Attachment specification . See “S.M.A.R.T . commands” on pa ge 40.for detai[...]

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    34 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D 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: Passwo[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 35 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. T he data is organized as a single 512- byte block of da ta, whose contents are show n in T able 10 on page 33. All reserved bit s or words sho uld b[...]

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    36 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D 60– 61 T otal number of user-addressable LBA sectors availa ble (see Section 2.2 fo r related information) *Note: The maximum value allowed in this field is: 0FFFFFFF h (268,435,455 sectors, 137 Gbytes). Drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes will have 0FFFFFFFh in this fi eld and the actual nu[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 37 Note. Advance d Power Management (APM) is supp orted. APM is disabled b y default but you may enable APM using the SA T A set featu res commands. Use the time settin gs stated below: Enable Idle 1 Options: Word 0x53 set to 0x7D09 Word 0xE3 set to 0x1388 // 5 seconds Word 0xE4 set to 0x2710 // 10 se[...]

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    38 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D 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 Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 39 4.3.2 Set Featu res command 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 Features reg ister , clears BSY and generates an inter- rupt. If the value in the register does n ot r[...]

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    40 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T . commands S.M.A.R.T . provides near-term failure pre diction for disc drives. Wh en S.M.A.R.T . is enabled, th e 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 ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 41 5.0 Seagate T echnology support services Online services Internet For information regarding Seag ate products and service s, 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@S[...]

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    42 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D Customer Service Operations W arranty Service Seagate of fers worldwide customer support for Seagate products. Seagate di stributor s, OEMs and ot her direct customers should contact their Seagate Customer Serv ice Operations (CSO) re presentative for warr anty- related issues. Resellers or e nd [...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 43 Index A ACA 24 acceleration 21 acoustics 21 Active 19 Active m ode 19 actuator arm 17 Agency certification 23 altitude 20 Ambient tempera ture 20 ambient temper ature 16 , 17 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 23 areal density 1 , 15 ATA commands 33 Australia/New Zeala nd Standard AS/ NZS3548 1995 24 Au[...]

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    44 Barracuda ES S erial ATA Pro duct Manual, Re v. D I I/O data-tr ansfer rate 15 Identify Devic e 33 Identify Devic e command 3 5 Idle 19 , 33 Idle Immediat e 33 Idle mode 17 , 19 IEC950 23 Information Technology Equipm ent (ITE) 23 Initialize Device Parameters 33 Input noise ripple 18 input voltage 17 interface 15 , 31 internal da ta-transfer rat[...]

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    Barracuda ES Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. D 45 S S.M.A.R.T. Disable Operations 34 S.M.A.R.T. Enable O p erations 34 S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Autosave 34 S.M.A.R.T. Execute Offline 34 S.M.A.R.T. implement ation 33 S.M.A.R.T. Read At tribute Th resholds 34 S.M.A.R.T. Read Data 34 S.M.A.R.T. Read Log Sector 34 S.M.A.R.T. Return Status 34 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: 1004 24667, Rev . D, Printed in U.S.A.[...]