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    Product Manual Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA 100560196 Rev. E December 2010 ST9500323CS ST9320328CS ST9250311CS ST91603110CS[...]

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    Revision history Copyright © 2010 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100560196, Rev. E December 2010 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Pipeline HD, SeaTools and SeaTDD are either trademarks or[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E i[...]

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    ii Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E iii Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0[...]

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    iv Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E v List of Figures Figure 1. Typical +5V only startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Figure 3.[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini SATA Product Manual, Rev. E vii For information regarding online support and services, visit http://www.seagate.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 [...]

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    viii Pipeline HD Mini SATA Product Manual, Rev. E[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Pipeline HD ® Mini Series SATA model drives: • ST9500323CS • ST9320328CS • ST9250311CS • ST91603110CS These drives provide the following key features: • 5,400-RPM s[...]

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    2 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E In addition, Serial ATA makes the transition from parallel ATA easy by providing legacy software support. Serial ATA was designed to allow you to install a Serial ATA host adapter and Serial ATA disc drive in your current sys- tem and expect all of your existing applications to work as normal. T[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 3 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 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA models. 2.1 Specification sum[...]

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    4 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E * One Gbyte equals one billion 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.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase a coustic and [...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 5 2.2 Formatted capacity Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector ST9500323CS 500 Gbytes 976,773,168 512 ST9320328CS 320 Gbytes 625,142,448 ST9250311CS 250 Gbytes 488,397,168 ST91603110CS 160 Gbytes 312,581,808 *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive c[...]

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    6 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 2.4 Physical organization Drive model Read/write heads Number of discs ST9500323CS 4 2 ST9320328CS 3 ST9250311CS 2 1 ST91603110CS 2.5 Recording and interface technology Interface Serial ATA (SATA) Recording method Perpendicular Recording density BPI (bits/inch avg) 1,490k Track density TPI (trac[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 7 Note. These drives are designed to consistently meet the seek times represented in this manual. Physical seeks, regardless of mode (such as track-to-track and average), are expected to meet the noted val- ues. However, due to the manner in which these drives are formatted, benchmark tests that i[...]

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    8 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E During Standby mode, the drive accepts commands, but the drive is not spinning, and the servo and read/write electronics are in power-down model Table 3: DC power Power dissipation +5V input average (25° C) ST9500323CS and ST9320328CS ST9250311CS and ST91603110CS Spinup (max) 1 amp Seek 1.54 wa[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 9 2.9.2 Conducted noise Input noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply across an equivalent 15-ohm resistive load on the +5 volt line. Using 5-volt power, the drive is expected to operate with a maximum of 100 mV peak-to-peak square-wave injected noise at up to 10 MHz. Note. Equiva[...]

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    10 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E • Idle and Standby timers Each time the drive performs an Active function (read, write or seek), the standby timer is reinitialized and begins counting down from its specified delay times to zero. If the standby timer reaches zero before any drive activity is required, the drive makes a trans[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 11 2.10.5 Shock All shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input shock applied at the drive mount- ing screws. Shock may be applied in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.10.5.1 Operating shock These drives comply with the performance levels specified in this document when subje[...]

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    12 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E *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 . Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs) Seagate follows the ECMA-74 standards for measurement and identification of PDTs. An [...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 13 2.13 Reliability Measurement type Specification Nonrecoverable read errors 1 per 10 14 bits read, max. Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.55% (nominal power, 25°C ambient temperature) Also, refer to Section 2.13.1. Contact start-stop cycles 50,000 cycles (at nominal voltage and temperature, with [...]

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    14 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Korean RRL If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo, they comply with paragraph 1 of Arti- cle 11 of the Electromagnetic Compatibility control Regulation and meet the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirements of the Radio Research Laboratory (RRL) Co[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 15 2.15.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) The European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive, restricts the presence of chemical substances, including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Hexavalent Chromium, PBB and PBDE, in electronic products, effective July 20[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 17 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 disch[...]

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    18 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E For installations which require cables, you can connect the drive as illustrated in Figure 2. Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 19 Measurements shown in Figure 3 are in inches. Figure 3. Mounting dimensions—top, side and end view[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 21 4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that supports FIS data transfers. It supports ATA pro- grammed input/output (PIO) modes 0–4; multiword DMA modes 0–2, and Ultra DMA modes 0–6. The drive also supports the use of the IORDY signal to[...]

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    22 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 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 the other ground pin[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 23 Device Configuration Identify B1h/C2h Device Configuration Set B1h/C3h Download Microcode 92h Execute Device Diagnostics 90h Flush Cache E7h Flush Cache Extended EAh Identify Device ECh Initialize Device Parameters 91h Read Buffer E4h Read DMA C8h Read DMA Extended 25h Read DMA without Retries [...]

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    24 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E S.M.A.R.T. Enable Operations B0h/D8h S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Auto Offline B0h/DBh S.M.A.R.T. Enable One Attribute Modification B0h/E0h S.M.A.R.T. Execute Offline B0h/D4h S.M.A.R.T. Read Attribute Thresholds B0h/D1h S.M.A.R.T. Read Data B0h/D0h S.M.A.R.T. Read Log Sector B0h/D5h S.M.A.R.T. Ret[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 25 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 the table on page 27. All reserved bits or words should be s[...]

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    26 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 54 Number of current logical cylinders xxxx H 55 Number of current logical heads xxxx H 56 Number of current logical sectors per logical track xxxx H 57–58 Current capacity in sectors xxxx H 59 Number of sectors transferred during a Read Multiple or Write Multiple command xxxx H 60–61 Total[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 27 92 Master password revision code FFFE H 93 Hardware reset value (see description following this table) xxxx H 94 Auto acoustic management setting xxxx 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 w[...]

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    28 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 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 does not represen[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 29 Note. At power-on, or after a hardware or software reset, the default values of the features are as indicated above. 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 monitors predetermined drive attributes that are[...]

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    30 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 31 Index A ACA 14 acoustics 4 , 11 Active mode 9 Address 23 AFR 13 Agency certification 13 Altitude 10 Altitude, nonoperating 4 Altitude, operating 4 ambient temperature 6 Annualized Failure Rate 13 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 4 Areal density 3 , 6 ATA commands 22 ATA data-transfer modes support[...]

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    32 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Guaranteed sectors 3 , 5 guaranteed sectors 5 H handling 17 Handling precautions 17 heads 5 Height 3 height 6 Humidity 10 humidity 4 I I/O data-transfer rate 3 , 6 I/O duty cycle 13 IDEMA 3 Stream power 4 Identify 23 Identify Device 23 Identify Device command 25 Idle 8 , 24 Idle and Standby tim[...]

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    Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 33 Read Sectors without Retries 23 Read Stream DMA Extended 23 Read Stream Extended 23 Read Verify Sectors 23 Read Verify Sectors Extended 23 Read Verify Sectors without Retries 23 Read/write heads 5 read/write power and current 7 Recording density 3 , 6 Recording method 6 Recording technology 6 R[...]

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    Seagate Technology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066-4544, USA Publication Number: 100560196, Rev. E, Printed in USA[...]