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Product Manual Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA 100529369 Rev. H August 2010 ST31000528AS ST3750528AS ST3500418AS ST3500410AS ST3320418AS ST3250318AS ST3160318AS.
Revision history © 2008-2010 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100529369, Rev. H, August 2010 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H i Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface .
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Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 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, Rev. H 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda ® 7200.12 Serial ATA model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 7200 RPM spindle speed.
2 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface The Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the traditional (parallel) ATA interface. The primary advantages include: • Easy installation and configuration with true plug-and-play connectivity.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 3 2.0 Drive Specifications Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power.
4 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 1000 and 750GB models Drive specification ST31000528AS ST3750528AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector).
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 5 * 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.
6 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Table 2: Drive specifications summary for 500GB models Drive specification ST3500418AS and ST3500410AS ST3320418AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/s.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 7 * 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.
8 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Table 3: Drive specifications summary for 250GB models Drive specification ST3250318AS ST3160318AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 250GB 16.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 9 * 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.
10 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 2.1 Formatted capacity Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector ST31000528AS 1000GB 1,953,525,168 512 ST3750528AS 750GB 1,46.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 11 2.3 Recording and interface technology Interface Serial ATA (SATA) Recording method Perpendicular Recording density (kbits/inch max) 1413 Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 236 Areal density (Gbits/inch 2 avg) 329 Spindle speed (RPM) 7,200 ± 0.
12 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 2.5 Seek time Seek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times are measured using drive diagnostics.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 13 2.7 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. See Figure 2 on page 22. 2.7.1 Power consumption Power requirements for the drives are listed in the table on page 9.
14 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 2.7.2 Conducted noise Input noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply across an equivalent 80-ohm resistive load on the +12 volt line or an equivalent 15-ohm resistive load on the +5 volt line.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 15 2.8 Environmental specifications 2.8.1 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.
16 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 2.8.5 Shock All shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input shock applied at the drive mounting screws.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 17 2.9 Acoustics Drive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound power levels (no pure tones). All mea- surements are consistent with ISO document 7779. Sound power measurements are taken under essentially free-field conditions over a reflecting plane.
18 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 2.11 Warranty To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the following web page: support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp From this page, click on the “Verify Your Warranty” link.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 19 Korean RRL If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo, they comply with paragraph 1 of Article 11 of the Electromagneti.
20 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 2.13 Environmental protection Seagate designs its products to meet environmental protection requirements worldwide, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 21 3.0 Configuring and Mounting the Drive This section contains the specifications and instructions for configuring and mounting the drive.
22 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Serial ATA interface connects point-to-point with the Serial ATA host adapter. There is no master/slave relationship because each drive is considered a master in a point-to-point relationship.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 23 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-mounting holes.
Recommended case temperature measurement location 24 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Figure 4. Mounting dimensions (500, 320, 250 and 160GB models).
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 25 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 to 4; multiword DMA modes 0 to 2, and Ultra DMA modes 0 to 6.
26 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 8 summarizes the signals on the Serial ATA interface and power connectors. Notes: 1. All pins are in a single row, with a 1.27 mm (0.050”) pitch.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 27 4.3 Supported ATA commands The following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive supports. For a detailed description of the ATA commands, refer to the Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 2.
28 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 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 .
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 29 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 Table 9 on page 27.
30 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 60–61 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available (see Section 2.1 for related information) *Note: The maximum value allowed in this field is: 0FFFFFFFh (268,435,455 sectors, 137GB).
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 31 Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not supported Note.
32 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Bit Word 88 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.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 33 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 inter- rupt.
34 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 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 moni- tors predetermined drive attributes that are susceptible to degradation over time.
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 35 5.0 Seagate Technology Support Services For information regarding online support and services, visit http://www.
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Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 37 Index A ACA 19 acceleration 16 acoustics 17 Active 14 Active mode 14 Agency certification 18 altitude 15 Ambient temperature 15 ambient temperatu.
38 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H Initialize Device Parameters 27 Input noise ripple 14 input voltage 13 interface 11 , 25 interference 19 internal data-transfer rate OD 11 is 12 .
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. H 39 Security Erase Prepare 28 Security Erase Unit 28 Security Freeze 28 Security Set Password 28 Security Unlock 28 See “S.
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