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Product Manual Constellation.2 TM Serial A T A 100545983 Rev . B October 2010 St andard Models ST91000640NS ST9500620NS ST9250610NS Self-Encrypting Drive Models ST91000641NS ST9500621NS ST925061 1NS S.
Revision history © 2010, Seagate T echnology LLC All rights reserved. Publication number: 100545983, Rev . B October 2010 Seagate, Seagate T echnology and the W ave logo are registered trad emarks of Seagate T echnology LLC in the United S tates and/or other countrie s.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B i Contents 1.0 Seagate Technology support services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ii Constellation.2 Serial AT A Product Manu al, Rev. B 6.4 Drive locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 6.5 Data bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B iii List of Figures Figure 1. Typical 5V/12V startup and oper ation current profile for 1TB models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Figure 2. Typical 5V/12V startup and oper ation current profile for 500GB models .
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Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 1 1.0 Seagate T echnology support services SEAGA TE ONLINE SUPPORT and SERVICES For information regarding pr oducts and services, visit http://www .
2 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Prod uct Manual , Rev. B 2.0 Introduction This manual describes the functiona l, mechanical an d in terface specifications for the foll owing Seagate Constellation.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 3 Constellation.2 Serial A T A Self-Encrypting Dr ive models have the following additional features: • Automatic data en cryption/decryption • Con.
4 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Prod uct Manual , Rev. B 3.0 Drive specifications Unless otherwise noted, all specific ations are measured und er ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power .
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 5 T able 1: Drive specifications summary for 1TB, 500 and 250 GB models Drive specification ST91000640NS ST91000641NS ST91000642NS ST9500620NS ST95006.
6 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Prod uct Manual , Rev. B * On e Gbyte equals one billion byte s when referring to h ard driv e capacity. Accessible capacit y may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. * * During perio ds of drive idle, some offli ne a ctivity may occur accordin g to the S.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 7 3.2 Formatted cap acity Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector ST91000640NS ST91000641NS ST91000642NS 1000 GB 1,953,525,168 5.
8 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. B 3.5 Physical characteristics Maximum height 14.8 mm (0.583 in) Maximum width 70.0 mm (2.76 in) Maximum length 100.5 mm (3.957 in) Max weight 1TB m odels 500GB models 250GB models 200 g (0.441 lb) 183 g (0.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 9 3.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+ 5V or +12V) thro ugh a na tive SA T A power connector . See Figure 5 on page 26. 3.8.1 Power consumption Power requirement s for the drives are listed in the t able on p age 9.
10 Constellation.2 Ser ial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. B T able 2: 1000GB drive (St andard & SED model) DC power requirementss Pa rame te r Vo lt ag e + 5 V + 12 V Po we r + 5 V + 1 2 V Powe r R eg u la tio n (w at ts ) (w att s) Av er age Idl e C u rr en t 0 .
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 11 500GB drive (Standard & SED model) DC power requireme n ts * During period s 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 .
12 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B 250GB drive (Standard & SED model) DC power requirement s * During period s 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 .
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 13 3.8.1.1 T ypical current profiles Figure 1. T ypical 5V/12V startup and op eration curren t pro f ile for 1TB models Figure 2.
14 Constellation.2 Ser ial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. B Figure 3. T ypical 5V/12V startup and op eration current p rofile for 250GB m odels 3.8.2 Conducted noise Noise is specified as a period ic and random distributi on of frequencies covering a ban d from DC to 10 MHz.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 15 3.8.4 P ower-man agement mo des The drive provides progr ammable power man agement to provide greater energy ef fici ency . In most systems, you can control power manage ment through the system setup program.
16 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B Each power condition has a set of curr ent, saved and de fault settings. Default settings are no t modifiable. Default and saved setting s persist ac ross power- on rese ts. The current settings do not per sist across power-on resets.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 17 3.9 Environment al limit s T emperature and hum idity values experienced by the driv e must be such th at condens ation does not occur on any drive part. Altitude and atmospheric pre ssure specif ications are referen ced to a standard da y at 58.
18 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B 3.9.3 Effective altitude (s ea level) a. Operating -200 to +10,000 feet (-61 to +3,048 meters) b.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 19 3.9.5 Vibra tion All vibration specifications assume that the drive is mounted secur e ly with the input vibration applied at the drive mountin g screws. Vibration may be ap plied in the X, Y or Z a xis.
20 Constellation.2 Ser ial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. B 3.1 1 Electromagnetic immunity When properly installed in a repres entative host syst em , the drive operates without e rrors or degradation i n performance when subjected to the radio frequency (RF) environments defined in the following table: 3.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 21 3.13 Agency certification 3.13.1 Safety certification The drives are recognized in accordance with UL 60950-1 as tested by UL, CSA 60950-1 as tested by CSA, and EN60950-1 as tested by TUV .
22 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B Radio and television interferenc e. This equipme nt generates and uses r adio frequency energy an d if not installed and used in strict acco rdance wi th the manu fa cturer ’s instructions, may cau se interference to radi o and television reception.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 23 The remaining warranty for a partic ular drive can be determ ined by calling Seagate Customer Service at 1- 800-468-347 2. Y ou can a lso determine rema ining warran ty using the Seagate we b site (www .
24 Constellation.2 Ser ial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. B 3.14.4 China Restriction of Hazar dous Subst ances (RoHS) Directive This product has an Environmen tal Protection Us e Period (EPUP) of 20 years.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 25 4.0 Configuring and mounting the drive This section contains the specif ications an d instructions for configuring and mounting th e drive.
26 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B 4.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Seri al A T A interface connect s point-to-point with the Ser ial A T A host adapter . There is no master/slave rela tionship becaus e each drive is consid er ed a master in a point-to-po int relationship.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 27 4.4 Drive mounting Y ou can mo unt the drive in any orient ation using four screws in the side-mountin g holes or four screws in the bottom-mou nting holes. Se e Figur e 6 for drive mou nting dimens ions.
28 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B 4.5 Cooling Cabinet cooling must be desig ned by the customer so that the ambient t emperature imm ediately surround ing the drive will not exceed temperat ure conditions specified in Section 3.9.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 29 5.0 About FIPS The Federal Information Proce ssing S t andard (FIPS) Publication 140- 2, FIPS PU B 140-2, is a U.S. govern- ment computer securi ty st andard used to accre dit cryptogr aphic modules.
30 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B 6.0 About self-e ncrypting drives Self-encrypting d rives (SEDs) offer encryption and secu rity services for the protection of stored dat a, com- monly known as “protection of data at rest.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 31 6.2.2 L ocking SP The Locking SP contro ls read/write a ccess to the media an d the cryptographic erase feature. Access to the Locking SP is available using the BandMasterX or Er aseMaster passwo rds.
32 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B 6.6 Cryptographic erase A significant featur e of SEDs is the ability to perfo rm a cryptographic er ase. This involves the host telling the drive to change the dat a encryption key for a p articul ar ban d.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 33 7.0 Serial A T A (SA T A) interface These drives use the industry-s tandard Seri al A T A interfac e that supp orts FIS dat a transfers. It support s A T A programmed input/o utput (PIO) modes 0–4; mult iword DMA modes 0–2, and Ultra DM A mo des 0–6.
34 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B 7.2 Serial A T A device p lug connector pin definitions Table 5 summarizes the sig nals on the Se ria l ATA interface and power connecto rs. Notes: 1. All pins are in a single row , with a 1.27 mm (0.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 35 7.3 Supported A T A commands The following t able lists Seri al A T A standard comman ds that the drive support s. For a det ailed description of the A T A commands, refer to the Serial A T A: High S peed Se rialized A T Attachment specification .
36 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B 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.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 37 7.3.1 I d e nt ify Device command The Identify Device command (command code EC H ) tran sfers information about the drive to the host following power up. The da t a is organized as a single 512-byte block of da t a, whose conten t s are shown in T able 6 on page 35.
38 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B 60–61 T o tal number of user-addressable LBA sectors available (see Section 3.2 for related information) *Note: The maximum value allowed in this field is: 0FFFFFFF h (268,435,455 sectors, 137 Gbytes).
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 39 Note. See the bit descriptio ns below for words 63 , 84, and 88 of the Identify Drive data. 108–1 1 1 The mandatory value of the world wide name (WWN) for the drive. NOTE: This field is valid if word 84, bit 8 is set to 1 indi ca ting 64-bit WWN support.
40 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B 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.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 41 7.3.2 S et Featu res comman d This command controls the implement ation of various fe at ures th at the drive suppo rts. When the drive receives this command, it sets BSY , checks the contents of the Features r egister , clears BSY and generate s an inter- rupt.
42 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B 7.3.3 S.M.A.R.T . commands S.M.A.R.T . provides near-term failure prediction for d isc drives. When S.M.A.R.T . is enabled, the drive moni- tors predetermined drive attributes that are suscep tible to degradation over time.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 43 Index A ACA 21 acceleration 19 acoustics 19 Active 15 Active m ode 15 Admin SP 30 AES-128 data encryption 30 Agency certification 21 altitude 18 am.
44 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Re v. B G geometry 7 Global Data Ba nd 31 gradient 1 7 Gs 19 guaranteed sect ors 7 H Handling precautions 25 heads 7 height 8 humidity 17 humidity limits.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 45 Read Verify Sectors Extended 35 Read Verify Sect ors Withou t Retries 35 Read/write h eads 7 Recalibrate 35 recording density 7 recording m ethod 7 Recording technology 7 reference documents 22 relative humidity 17 Reliability 20 RF 20 RMS read/write current 14 RNG 31 RoHS 22 , 24 RRL 21 S S.
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