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Product Manual Seagate ® Desktop HDD Gen 15 100710254 Rev. A January 2013 ST4000DM000 ST3000DM003[...]

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Desktop HDD Product Manual, Rev. A Contents Seagate Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.1 About the S[...]

Desktop HDD Product Manual, Rev. A[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A Figures Figure 1 Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Figure 2 Mounting dimensions (3TB and 4TB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 7 For information regarding online support and services, visit http://www .seag ate.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 Warr[...]

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Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 9 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate ® Desktop HDD model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 600MB per second). • TGMR recording technology pr[...]

10 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A Introduction www.seagate.com Note The host adapter may, optionally, emulate a master/slave environment to host software where two devices on separate SATA ports are represented to host software as a Device 0 (master) and Device 1 (slave) accessed at the same set of host bus addresses. A host adapter that e[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 11 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 following drive models: 2.1 Specification summary tables The specific[...]

12 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A Drive Specifications www.seagate.com *All specifications above are based on native configurations. ** One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. * ** During periods [...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 13 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1, where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above . See Section 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for [...]

14 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.5 Physical characteristics 2.6 Seek time Seek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times are measured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in the table below are defined as follows: • Track-to-track seek time is an avera[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 15 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications • Read/write power and current Read/write power is measured with the heads on track, based on a 16-sector write followed by a 32-ms delay, then a 16-sector read followed by a 32-ms delay. • Operating power and current Operating power is measured using 40 percent ran[...]

16 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.8.2 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. • Using 12-volt power, the drive is expected to operate wit[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 17 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications activity is required, the drive makes a transition to Standby mode. In both Idle and Standby mode, the drive accepts all commands and returns to Active mode when disk access is necessary. 2.9 Environmental specifications This section provides the temperature, humidty, s[...]

18 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.9.5 Shock All shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input shock applied at the drive mounting screws. Shock may be applied in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.9.5.1 Operating shock These drives comply with the performance levels specified in thi[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 19 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.10.1 Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs) Seagate follows the ECMA-74 standards for measurement and identification of PDTs. An exception to this process is the use of the absolute threshold of hearing. Seagate uses this threshold curve (originated in ISO 389- 7) t[...]

20 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A Drive Specifications www.seagate.com Korean RRL If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo, they comply with paragraph 1 of Article 11 of the Electromagnetic Compatibility control Regulation and meet the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirements of the Radio Resea[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 21 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.14.2 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive This product has an Environmental Protection Use Period (EPUP) of 20 years. The following table contains information mandated by China's "Marking Requirements for Control of Pollution Caused by [...]

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Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 23 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 discharge (ESD) h[...]

24 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com Figure 1 Attaching SATA cabling Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. Desktop HDD drives support latching SATA connectors. 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screw[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 25 4.0 SATA Interface These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA (SATA) interface that supports FIS data transfers. It supports ATA programmed input/output (PIO) modes 0 to 4; multiword DMA modes 0 to 2, and Ultra DMA modes 0 to 6. For detailed information about the SATA interface, refer to the “Seri[...]

26 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A SATA Interface www.seagate.com Notes 1. All pins are in a single row, with a 1.27 mm (0.050 in) 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 th[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 27 Download Microcode 92 H Execute Device Diagnostics 90 H Flush Cache E7 H Flush Cache Extended EA H Format Track 50 H Identify Device EC H Idle E3 H Idle Immediate E1 H Initialize Device Parameters 91 H Read Buffer E4 H Read DMA C8 H Read DMA Extended 25 H Read DMA Without Retries C9 H Read Log Ext 2F H Rea[...]

28 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A SATA Interface www.seagate.com Seek 70 H Set Features EF H Set Max Address F9 H Note: Individual Set Max Address commands are identified by the value placed in the Set Max Features register as defined to the right. Address: Password: Lock: Unlock: Freeze Lock: 00 H 01 H 02 H 03 H 04 H Set Max Address Exten[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 29 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 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 on page 26. All reserved bits or words sh[...]

30 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A SATA Interface www.seagate.com 59 Number of sectors transferred during a Read Multiple or Write Multiple command xxxx H 60–61 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available (see Section 2.2 for related information) *Note: The maximum value allowed in this field is: 0FFFFFFFh (268,435,455 sectors,[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 31 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 92 Master password revision code FFFE H 93 Hardware reset value xxxx H 94 Automatic acoustic management 8080 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 words are required for [...]

32 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A SATA Interface www.seagate.com 5 GPL feature set is supported. 6 WRITE DMA FUA EXT and WRITE MULTIPLE FUA EXT commands are supported. 7 WRITE DMA QUEUED FUA EXT command is supported. 8 64-bit World Wide Name is supported. 9-10 Obsolete. 11-12 Reserved for TLC. 13 IDLE IMMEDIATE command with IUNLOAD feature[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 33 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 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 registe[...]

34 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A SATA Interface www.seagate.com 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 monitors predetermined drive attributes that are susceptible to degradation over time. If self-monitoring determines that a failure is likely, S.M[...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 35 A ACA 20 acceleration 18 acoustics 18 Active 16 Active mode 16 Agency certification 19 altitude 17 Ambient temperature 17 ambient temperature 14 areal density 13 ATA commands 26 Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 20 Australian Communication Authority (ACA) 20 Australian C-Tick 20 Average latency [...]

36 Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A N noise 16 nominal power 14 Nonoperating shock 18 Nonoperating vibration 18 O operating 15 Operating power 15 Operating shock 18 Operating vibration 18 P Physical characteristics 14 point-to-point 9, 23 Power consumption 14 power dissipation 15 Power modes 16 Power specifications 14 Power-management modes [...]

Desktop HDD SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 37 U UL60950-1 19 V voltage 14 Voltage dips, interrupts 19 Voltage tolerance 16 W weight 14 wet bulb temperature 17 width 14 Write Buffer 28 Write DMA 28 Write DMA Extended 28 Write DMA FUA Extended 28 Write DMA Without Retries 28 Write Log Extended 28 Write Multiple 28 Write Multiple Extended 28 Write Multip[...]

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