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    Product Manual DiamondMax 21 100451230 Rev . C August 2007 STM3500630AS STM3320620AS STM3320820AS STM3250824AS STM3250820AS STM3250310AS STM3160815AS STM3160215AS STM380815AS STM380215AS STM340215AS[...]

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    Revision st atus summary sheet Copyright © 2006, 2007 Seagate T echnology LLC. All rights re served. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100451230, Rev . C August 2007 Seagate, Seagate T echno logy and the W ave logo are re gistered trademarks of Seaga te T echnology LLC in the United S tates and/or ot her countries. DiamondMax, Ma xBlast, Maxto[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C i Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.0 Driv[...]

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    ii DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Product M anual, Rev. C[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C iii List of Figures Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functiona l, mechanical an d interface specifications for the following DiamondMax ® 21 Serial A T A model drives: These drives provide the following key fea tures: • 7,200 RPM spindl e speed. • High instant aneous (burst) dat a-transfer rates (up to [...]

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    2 Diamon dMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manua l, Rev. C 1.1 About the Serial A T A interface The Serial A T A interface provides several advanta ges over the traditional (parallel) A T A interface. The primary advantages include : • Easy installation and configuration with true plug-a nd-play connectivity . It is not necessary to set any jump - ers o[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 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 con venience, t he phrases the drive and this drive are used throu ghout this manual to indicate the following drive models: 2.1 Spec ification summary t a[...]

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    4 Diamon dMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manua l, Rev. C T able 1: Drive specifications summary for 500 Gbyte models Drive specification STM3500630AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 500 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 976,773,168 Heads 6 Discs 3 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,383 Recor[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 5 Vibration, operating 5–22 Hz: 0.25 Gs, Limited displacement 22–350 Hz: 0.50 Gs 350–500 Hz:: 0.25 Gs Vibration, nonoperating 5–22 Hz: 0.25 Gs, Limited displacement 22–350 Hz: 5.0 Gs 350–500 Hz:: 1.0 Gs Drive acoustics, sound power Idle** 2.8 bels (typical) 3.0 bels (max) Performance seek[...]

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    6 Diamon dMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manua l, Rev. C T able 2: Drive specifications summary for 320 Gbyte models Drive specification STM3320820AS STM3320620AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 320 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 625,142,448 Heads 4 Discs 2 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 7 * One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may var y depending on operating environment 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 an[...]

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    8 Diamon dMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manua l, Rev. C T able 3: Drive specifications summary for 250 Gbyte models Drive specification STM3250824AS STM3250820AS STM3250310AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 250 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 488,397,168 Heads 3 2 Discs 2 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 [...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 9 * One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may var y depending on operating environment 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 an[...]

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    10 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C T able 4: Drive specifications summary for the 160 Gb yte models Drive specification STM3160815AS STM3160215AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 160 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 312,581,808 Heads 2 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cyl[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 11 * One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may var y depending on operating environment 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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    12 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C T able 5: Drive specifications summary for the 80 Gbyte model Drive specification STM380815AS STM380215AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 80 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 156,301,488 Heads 1 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 13 * One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may var y depending on operating environment 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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    14 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C T able 6: Drive specifications summary for the 40 Gbyte model Drive specification STM340215AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 40 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 78,165,360 Heads 1 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,383 Recor[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 15 * One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may var y depending on operating environment 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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    16 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C 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 environment and formatting. 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these d rives in LBA mode, all bloc ks (sectors) are consecutively nu mbered from 0[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 17 2.4 Recording and interface tec hnology STM3500630AS STM3320620AS STM3320820AS STM3 250824AS STM3250820AS Interface Serial A T A (SA T A) Recording method Perpendicular Recording de nsity (kbits/i nch max) 813 781 790.1 813 T rack density (ktracks/inch avg) 145 124.5 145 Areal density (Gbits/inch [...]

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    18 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C 2.5 Physical characteristics Maximum height STM3500630AS, STM3320620AS, STM33 20820AS, STM3250824AS and STM3250820 AS 26.1 mm (1.028 inches) STM3250310AS, STM3160815AS, STM31 60215AS, STM380815AS, STM3802 15AS and STM340215AS 19.99 mm (0.787 inches) Maximum width 101.6 mm (4.000 +/ - 0.010 inches[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 19 2.6 Seek time Seek measurement s are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times ar e measured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in th e table below are defined as follows: • T rack-to- track seek time is an average of all possible single-track s eeks in both direc[...]

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    20 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C 2.8.1 Power co nsumption Power requirement s for the drives are listed in the t able on page 9. T ypical power measurements ar e based on an average of drives tested, und er nominal conditions, using 5.0V and 12 .0V input vo ltage at 25°C ambient temperature. • Spinup power S p inup power is m[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 21 2.8.1.1 T y pical current profiles Figure 1. T y pical 5V startup and operation curre nt profile Figure 2. T y pical 12V startup and operation curre nt profile 2.8.2 C onducted noise Input noise ripp le is measured at the ho st system powe r supply across an equivalent 80-ohm resistive load on the[...]

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    22 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C 2.8.4 Power-man agement mo des The drive provides prog rammable power management to p rovide greater energy ef fici ency . In most systems, you can control power manage ment through the system setup program. The drive featur es the following power-management mod es: • Active mode The drive is i[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 23 2.9 Environment al specifications 2.9.1 Ambient tempe rature Ambient temperature is defined as th e temperature of the en vironment immedi atel y surrounding the drive. Actual drive c ase temperat ure should not exceed 69 °C (156°F) within the operating ambient conditions. Above 1,000 feet (305 [...]

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    24 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C STM3250824AS and STM325031 0AS These drives comply with t he performance levels specified in this document wh en subjected to a maximum operating shock of 63 Gs ba sed on half-sine shock pu lses of 2 msec. Shocks should not be repeated m ore than two times per second. 2.9.5.2 Nonopera ting shock [...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 25 2.10 Acoustics Drive acoustics are measur ed as overall A-we ighted ac oustic sound power levels (no pure tones). All mea- surements ar e consistent with ISO document 7779. S ound power measuremen ts are ta ken under essentially free-field conditions over a reflecting plane. Fo r all te sts, the d[...]

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    26 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C 2.12 Reliability 2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean T ime Between Fa ilures (MTBF) The product shall achi eve an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.34% (MTBF of 0.7 million hours) when oper- ated in an envir onment of am bient air tem peratures of 25 ° C. Operation at temperatures out[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 27 Korean RRL If these drives have the Korea Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) logo, they comply with p ara- 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 R adio Research [...]

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    28 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C 2.14 Environment al protection Maxtor designs it s products to meet e nvironmental protectio n requirements worldwid e, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances. 2.14.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Subst ances (RoHS) Directive Seagate designs it s products to meet [...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 29 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-discharge precautions After unp acking, and before inst allation, the drive may be exposed to pote ntial handling and electrostatic d[...]

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    30 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Seri al A T A interface connects po int-to-point with the Serial A T A host adapter . There is no master/slave rela tionship becaus e each drive is consider ed a master in a p oint-to-point relationship. If two drives are attached on one Serial A T A ho[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 31 3.4 Drive mounting Y ou can mount the drive in any orie ntation using four scr ews in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-mo unting holes. Se e Figure 5 f or drive mou nting dimens ions. Follo w these impor tant mounting preca u- tions when m ounting the drive: • Allow a minimum[...]

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    32 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C Figure 6. Drive dimensions for 40-160 GB and STM3250310AS models[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 33 4.0 Serial A T A (SA T A) interface These drives use the industry-s tandard Serial A T A interfac e that support s FIS data transfers. It suppor ts A T A programmed input/o utput (PIO) modes 0–4; mult iword DMA modes 0–2, and Ultra DMA mode s 0–6. For det ailed information about the Seria l [...]

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    34 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C 4.2 Serial A T A device plug connector pin definitions Table 10 summarizes the signa ls on the Serial ATA interface and power con nectors. . 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 apply to the case of backpl ane blindmate [...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 35 4.3 Supported A T A commands The following t able lists Serial A T A standard commands that the drive supports. For a det ailed description of the A T A commands, refer to the Serial A T A: High S peed Serialize d A T Attachment specification . See “S.M.A.R.T . commands” on p age 42.for deta i[...]

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    36 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C 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: Passwo[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 37 4.3.1 Identify Dev ice command The Identify Device command (command code EC H ) transfers information abo ut the drive to the host following power up. The da ta is organized as a single 51 2-byte block of data, whose contents are show n in T able 1 1 on page 35. All reserved bit s or words should [...]

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    38 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C 60–61 T otal 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, 137 Gbytes). Drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes will have 0FFFFFFFh in this fi eld and the actual number[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 39 Note. Advance d Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acou stic Manage ment (AAM) feat ures are not supported 100– 103 T otal number of user-addressable L BA sectors available (see Section 2.2 for related information). These words are required for drives that support the 48-bit addressing feature[...]

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    40 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C Note. See the bit descriptio ns below for words 63 , 88, and 93 of the Identify Drive data. Description (if bit is set to 1) Bit Wor d 6 3 0 Multiword DMA mode 0 is supported . 1 Multiword DMA mode 1 is supported . 2 Multiword DMA mode 2 is supported . 8 Multiword DMA mode 0 is currently active. [...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 41 4.3.2 Set Featu res command This command controls the implement ation of various feat ur es that the drive support s. When the drive receives this command, it sets BSY , checks the contents of the Features r egister , clears BSY and generates an in ter- rupt. If the value in the register does n ot[...]

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    42 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T . commands S.M.A.R.T . provides near-term failur e prediction for disc drives. When S.M.A.R.T . is enabled, the drive m oni- tors predetermined drive attributes that are suscep tible to degradation over time. If self-monitoring de termines that a failure is likely , S.M.A.R.T . ma[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 43 5.0 Maxtor support services Before contacting Maxt or Support, us e the Hard Disk Inform ation featur e in MaxBlast to view the model num- ber and seri al number of your dr ive. These numbers can be used to get help from Maxtor Support, r egister your drive, and look up info rmation on the Maxtor [...]

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    44 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 45 Index A ACA 27 acceleration 24 acoustics 25 Active 22 Active m ode 22 actuator arm 20 AFR 26 Agency certification 26 altitude 23 Ambient temperature 23 ambient temperature 19 , 20 Annualized Failure Rate 26 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 26 areal density 1 , 17 ATA commands 35 Australia/New Zealand[...]

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    46 DiamondM ax 21 Serial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. C I I/O data-transfer rate 17 I/O duty cycle 26 Identify Device 35 Identify Device command 37 Idle 22 , 35 Idle Immediate 35 Idle mode 20 , 22 IEC950 26 Information Technology Equipment (ITE) 26 Initialize Device Parameters 35 Input noise ripple 21 input voltage 20 interface 17 , 33 interference 27[...]

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    DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. C 47 S S.M.A.R.T. Disable Operations 36 S.M.A.R.T. Enable Operations 36 S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Autosave 36 S.M.A.R.T. Execute Offline 36 S.M.A.R.T. implementation 35 S.M.A.R.T. Read At tribute Thresh olds 36 S.M.A.R.T. Read Data 36 S.M.A.R.T. Read Log Sector 36 S.M.A.R.T. Return Status 36 S.M.A.R.T.[...]

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    Seagate T echnology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts V alley , California 95066-4544 , USA Publication Number: 1004512 30, Rev . C, Printed in U.S.A.[...]