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Product Manual Pipeline HD.2 Series SA T A 100529372 Rev . A January 2009 ST31000424CS ST31000322CS ST3500414CS ST3500312CS ST3250312CS[...]
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Revision history Copyright © 2009 Seagate T echnology LLC. All right s reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100529372, Rev . A January 2009 Seagate, Seagate T echnology and the W ave logo ar e registere d trademarks of Seagate T echnology LLC in the United S tates and/or other countries. Pipeline HD.2 Seri es, SeaT ools and SeaTDD are e[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A i Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.0 Driv[...]
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ii Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A iii List of Figures Figure 1. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Figure 2. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Figur[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functiona l, mechanical an d interface specifications for the following Seagate Pipeline HD TM .2 Series model d rive: These drives provide the following key fea tures: • High instant aneous (burst) da ta-tr ansfer rates (up to 30 0 Mbytes per second). ?[...]
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2 Pipeline H D.2 Series SAT A Product Ma nual, Rev. A 1.1 About the Serial A T A interface The Serial A T A interface pr ovides several advant ages over the traditional (p arallel) A T A interface. The primary advantages include : • Easy installation and configuration with true plug-and-pla y connectivity . It is not necessary to set a ny jump - [...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3 2.0 Drive specifications Unless otherwise noted, all specific ations are me asured unde r ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power . For convenienc e, the ph rases the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to in dicate the following drive model: 2.1 Spec ification summary t ab[...]
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4 Pipeline H D.2 Series SAT A Product Ma nual, Rev. A T able 1: Drive specifications summary for 1000 Gbyte mo dels Drive specification ST31000424CS ST31000322CS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 1000 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 1,953,525,168 Heads 4 Discs 2 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cy[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 5 * On e Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating envir onment 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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6 Pipeline H D.2 Series SAT A Product Ma nual, Rev. A T able 2: Drive specifications summary for 500 and 250 G byte mode ls Drive specification ST3500414CS ST3500312CS ST3250312CS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 500 Gbytes 250 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 976,773,168 488,397,168 Heads 2 1 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 6[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 7 * On e Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating envir onment 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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8 Pipeline H D.2 Series SAT A Product Ma nual, Rev. A 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 envir onment and formatting. 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing the drive in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively n umbered from 0 to[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 9 2.5 Physical characteristics 2.6 Seek time Seek measurement s are t aken with nominal p ower at 25°C ambient temperatur e. All times are measured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in th e table belo w are defined as follows: • T rack-to-track seek time is an averag e of all possible si[...]
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10 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+ 5V or +12V) thro ugh a na tive SA T A power connector . See Figure 3 on page 20. 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 t[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1 1 2.8.1.1 T ypical curren t profiles Figure 1. T y pical 12V startup and operation curre nt profile 2.8.2 C onducted noise Input noise ripp le is measured at th e host system powe r supply across an equivalent 80-ohm resistive load on the +12 volt line or an equival ent 15-ohm resistive load on the[...]
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12 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A 2.8.4 Power-man agement mo des The drive provides prog rammable power man agement to provide gr eater energy ef fici ency . In most systems, you can control power manage ment through the system setup program. The drive features the followin g power-management mod es: • Active mode The drive is[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1 3 2.9 Environment al specifications 2.9.1 Drive case temperatu re Above 1,000 feet (305 me ters), the maximum temper ature is dera ted linearly to 1 12°F (44°C) at 10,000 feet (3,048 meters). Drive case temperature should be me asured at t he locatio n indicated in Figure 4 on page 21. * Ambient [...]
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14 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A 2.9.5 Shoc k All shock specifications assu me that the drive is mounted secu rely with the input sh ock applied at the drive mounting screws. Shock may be applied in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.9.5.1 Operating shock The drives comply with th e performanc e levels specified in this document when subjec[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1 5 2.10 Acoustics emissions Drive emission of so und is measured consistent with the ECMA-74 an d its referenced standards. T esting is conducted at room tempe rature (approxima tely 25 de gre es C). Emission levels are reported as the tota l A-weighted sound power levels for , steady stat e, idle a[...]
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16 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A 2.12 Reliability 2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) The product shall achieve an Annualized Failu re Rate (A FR) of 0.55% when opera ted in an environ ment of ambient air temperatures of 25 ° C. Operation at temperatures out side the specifications in Section 2.9 m ay increase the product AFR[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1 7 Korean RRL If these drives have the Korea Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) log o, they comply with par a- graph 1 of Article 1 1 of the Electr omagnetic Compatibility control Regula tion and meet th e Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirement s of the Radio Research[...]
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18 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A 2.14 Environment al protection Seagate designs it s product s to meet en vironment al pr otection requirement s worldwide, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances. 2.14.1 European Union Restric tion of Hazardous Subst a nces (RoHS) Directive Seagate designs it s product s t[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1 9 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-dis charge precautions After unp acking, and befo re installation, the drive may be exposed to po tential handling and ele ctrostatic[...]
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20 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Seri al A T A interface connect s point-to-point with the Serial A T A host ada pter . There is no master/slave rela tionship becaus e each drive is consider ed a master in a point- to-point relationship . If two drives are attached on one Serial A T A[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2 1 3.4 Drive mounting Y ou can mount the drive in any orient ation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-mo unting hole s. See Figure 4 for drive mo unting dime nsions. Fo llow these imp ortant mounting pr ecau- tions when m ounting the drive: • Allow a minimum [...]
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22 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A Figure 5. Mounting dimen sions (for 5 00 and 250 GB models) Recommended case temperature measurement location[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2 3 4.0 Serial A T A (SA T A) interface These drives use the industry-s tandar d Serial A T A interfac e th at support s 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 Ultr a DMA modes 0–6. For det ailed information abou t the Ser[...]
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24 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A 4.2 Serial A T A device p lug connector pin definitions Table 6 summarizes the sig nals on the Se rial 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 blin dmate[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2 5 4.3 Supported A T A commands The following t able list s Serial A T A standa rd commands that the drive support s. For a deta iled description of the A T A commands, re fer to the Se rial A T A Internatio nal Organization: Seria l A T A Revision 2.6 (http :// www .sata-io.org). See “S.M.A.R.T .[...]
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26 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A 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: Passw[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2 7 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. The da ta is organized as a sing le 512-byte block of data, whose contents are sho wn in T abl e 7 on page 25. All reserved bit s or words should b[...]
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28 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A 60–61 T otal number of user-addressable LBA sectors availabl e (see Section 2.2 for related information) *Note: The maximum value all owed in this field is: 0FFF FFFFh (268,435,455 sectors, 137 Gbytes). Drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes will have 0FFFFFFF h in this field and the actual nu[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2 9 Note. Advance d Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acou stic Manage ment (AAM) feat ures are not supp orted Note. See the bit descriptio ns below for words 63 , 84, and 88 of the Identify Drive data. 108–1 1 1 The ma ndatory value of the world wide name (WWN) for the drive. NOTE: This field i[...]
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30 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A 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. 6 Ultra DMA mode 6 is supported. 8 Ultra DMA mode 0 is currently active. 9 Ultra DMA[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3 1 4.3.2 Set Featu res command This command controls the implement ation of various fe at ures that th e drive support s. When the drive receives this command, it sets BSY , checks the contents of the Featur es register , clears BSY and gen erates an inter- rupt. If the value in the register does n [...]
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32 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T . commands S.M.A.R.T . provides near-term failure prediction fo r disc drives. When S.M.A.R.T . is enabled, the d rive moni- tors predetermined drive attributes that are suscep tible to degradation over time. If self- monitoring determin es that a failure is likely , S.M.A.R.T . [...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3 3 5.0 Seagate T echnology support services Online services Internet For information regardin g Seagate product s and services, visit www .sea gate.com . Worldwide support is available 24 hours daily by ema il for your questions. Presales Support: Presales@Seagate.com T echnical Support: DiscSupport[...]
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34 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A Customer Service Operations W arranty Servi ce Seagate of fers worldwide customer support for Seagate product s. Seagate distributor s, OEMs and othe r direct customers should contact their Seagate Customer Ser v ice Operat ions (CSO) repr esentative for warr anty- related issues. Resellers or e[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3 5 Index A ACA 17 acceleration 14 acoustics 15 Active 12 Active m ode 12 AFR 16 Agency certification 16 altitude 13 ambient temper ature 9 , 10 Annualized Failure Rate 16 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 16 areal density 1 , 8 ATA commands 25 Australia/New Zeala nd Standard AS/ NZS3548 1995 17 Australi[...]
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36 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. A Identify Devic e command 27 Idle 12 , 25 Idle Immediat e 25 Idle mode 10 , 12 IEC950 16 Information Technology Equipm ent (ITE) 16 Initialize Device Parameters 25 Input noise ripple 11 input voltage 10 interface 8 , 23 interferen ce 17 internal da ta-transfer rate OD 8 ITE 16 K Korea Ministry of[...]
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Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3 7 S.M.A.R.T. Save Attribute Values 26 S.M.A.R.T. Write Log se ctor 26 Safety certification 16 SATA 23 screws 14 sectors 8 Sectors per track 8 Security Disable Password 25 Security Erase Pre pare 25 Security Erase Unit 26 Security Freeze 26 Security Set Password 26 Security Unlock 26 Seek 26 Seek ti[...]
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Seagate T echnology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts V a lley , California 95066 -4544, USA Publication Number: 1005293 72, Rev . A, Printed in U.S.A.[...]