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    Product Manual Barracuda XT Series SA T A 100586689 Rev . C January 2010 ST32000641AS[...]

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    Revision history Copyright © 2008-2010 Se agate T echnology LL C. All rights reserv ed. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number : 100586689, Rev . C January 2010 Seagate, Seagate T echnology and the W a ve logo ar e registered tr ademarks of Seagate T echnology LLC in the United S t ates and/or other cou ntries. Barracuda, SeaT ools and SeaT DD are e[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C i Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.0 Drive[...]

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    ii Barracuda XT Series SAT A Product Manual, Rev. C[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C iii List of Figures Figure 1. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Figure 2. Mounting dimensions (2000GB model) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18[...]

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    iv Barracuda XT Series SAT A Product Manual, Rev. C[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Pr oduct Manual, Rev. C 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the function al, mechanical and interface spe cifications for the following Se agate Barracuda ® XT model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • The SA T A 6Gb/s interface enab les the use of the industry’ s newest and fastest har d dr[...]

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    2 Barracuda XT Series SAT A Product Manual, Rev. C 1.1 About the Serial A T A interface The Serial A T A interface provides several advantages over the traditional (parallel) A T A interface. The primary adva n- tages include: • Easy installation an d configuration with true plug-and-play co nne ctivity . It is not necessary to set any jumpers or[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Pr oduct Manual, Rev. C 3 2.0 Drive specifications Unless otherwise no ted, all specifications are measur ed und er ambien t conditions, at 25° C, and nominal power . For con- venience, th e phrases the drive and this drive are used throughout th is manual to indicate the following drive models: The specification summaries[...]

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    4 Barracuda XT Series SAT A Product Manual, Rev. C * One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard dr ive capacity. Accessible capac ity may var y depending on operating enviro nment and formatting. * *During pe riods of drive idle , some offlin e activity may occur according to the S.M. A.R.T. specification, w hich may increase a coust[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Pr oduct Manual, Rev. C 5 2.1 Formatted cap acity Model Formatted cap acit y* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per secto r ST32000641AS 2000GB 3 ,907,029,168 512 *One Gbyte equals one billion byte s when refe rring to har d drive capacity. Accessibl e capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. 2.1.1 LBA mo[...]

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    6 Barracuda XT Series SAT A Product Manual, Rev. C 2.4 Physical characteristics ST32000641AS Maximum height 26.1mm / 1.028 in Maximum wid th 101.85mm / 4.010 in Maximum length 146.99mm / 5.787 in T ypica l weight 700g / 1.543 lb Cache buffe r 64MB (64,768k b ) 2.5 St art/stop times 2000GB model Power-on to ready (s) max. 15.0 S t andby to ready (s)[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Pr oduct Manual, Rev. C 7 2.6 Power specifications The drive receive s DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SA T A power connector . See Figure 1 on page 17. 2.6.1 Power co nsumpt ion Power requiremen ts for the drives are listed in the table on p age 9. T ypical power measure ments are base d on an aver- a ge of drives [...]

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    8 Barracuda XT Series SAT A Product Manual, Rev. C 2.6.1.1 T ypical current pr of ile s Note. T ypical 5V st artup and op eration current prof ile Note. T ypical 12V startup and operation current prof ile[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Pr oduct Manual, Rev. C 9 2.6.2 Conducted nois e Input noise ripple is measured at the host syste m power supply across an equiva lent 80-ohm resistive load on the +12V line or an equivalent 15-ohm resistive load on the +5V line. • Using 12-V power , the drive is expect ed to operate with a maximum of 120 mV peak-to-peak [...]

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    10 Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 2.7 Environment al specifications 2.7.1 Ambient tem perature Ambient temperatur e is defined as the temperature of the envir onment immediately sur round ing the drive. Actual drive case temperature should not exceed 69°C (156 °F) within the operating ambient cond itions. * See Section for relia[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 11 2.7.5 Shock All shock specific ations ass ume that the drive is moun ted securely wit h the input shock applie d at the driv e mounti ng screws. Shock may be applie d in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.7.5.1 Operating shock These drives co mply with the performanc e levels specified in this document when sub[...]

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    12 Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 2.8 Acoustics Drive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound po wer levels (no pure ton es). All measurement s are consistent with ISO documen t 7779. Sound power m easurements ar e taken un der essentially free-fi eld conditions over a reflecting plane. For all test s, the driv[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 13 2.10 W arranty T o determine the warrant y for a speci fi c dri v e , us e a web browser to access the following web page: support.seagate.com/customer/wa rranty_validation.jsp From this page, click on the “V erify Y our W arranty” link. Y ou will be asked to provide the drive serial numb er , [...]

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    14 Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Ma nual, Rev. C Korean RRL If these drives have the Korea n Communications Commission (K CC) lo go, they comply with p aragraph 1 of Ar ticle 1 1 of the Electromagnetic Compatibility contro l Regulation and meet the Electrom agnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirement s of the Radio Research Laborator y (RR[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Pr oduct Manual, Rev. C 15 2.12 Env ironment al protection Seagate designs it s products to meet environment al protecti on requir ements world wide, incl uding regulation s restricting certain ch emical substances. 2.12.1 European Union Re striction of Hazardou s Subst ances (RoHS) Directive The European Union Restr iction[...]

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    16 Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Ma nual, Rev. C 3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive This section contains the specif ications and instructions for configur ing and mounting the drive . 3.1 Handling and st atic-discharge p recautions After unp acking, an d before inst allation, the drive may be ex posed to potential ha ndling and electrostati[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 17 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Se rial A T A interface connect s point-to-poi nt with the Serial A T A host adapter . There is no m aster/slave relationship because ea ch drive is considered a master in a po int-to-point relationship. If two drives are att ached on one Serial A T A hos[...]

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    18 Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manu al, Rev. C 3.4 Drive mounting Y ou can mount the drive in any orient ation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or fo ur screws in the botto m- mounting holes. See Figure 2 for drive mounting dimensio ns. Follow the se im por tant mountin g pr ecau tions when moun t- ing the drive: • Allow a minimu[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 19 4.0 Serial A T A (SA T A) interface These drives use the industr y-st andard Seri al A T A interface that support s FIS dat a transfers. It suppor ts A T A programmed input/output (PIO) mode s 0 to 4; multiword DMA modes 0 to 2, and Ultra DMA modes 0 to 6. For det ailed information abou t the Seria[...]

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    20 Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Ma nual, Rev. C 4.2 Serial A T A device plug connector pin definitions Table 5 summa rize s th e sign a l s on the Ser i al ATA interface and power connectors. 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 backplane blin dmat[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 21 4.3 Supported A T A commands The following t able lists Ser ial A T A standard comma nds that the drive support s. For a detailed descriptio n of the A T A comm a nd s, re fer to the Serial A T A International Organ ization: Serial A T A Revision 2.6 (http://www .sata-io.org). See “S.M.A.R.T . co[...]

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    22 Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Ma nual, Rev. C 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 Featur es EF H Set Max Address F9 H Note: Individual Set Max Address commands are identified b y the value placed in the Set Max Features regis - ter as defined t[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 23 4.3.1 Identify Device command The Identify Device command (comm and code EC H ) transfe rs information about the drive to the host following power up. The data is or ganized as a single 512-byte bl ock of data, wh ose conten ts are sh own in T able 6 on pa ge 21. All reserved bits or words sh ould [...]

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    24 Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Ma nual, Rev. C 60–61 T otal 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 ). Drives with capacities over 137Gb will have 0FFFFFFFh in this field and the actual nu mb er of user-[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 25 Note. Advanced Power Manag ement (APM) and Automatic Acoust ic Management (AAM) feat ures are not supported Note. See the bit descriptions below for words 63, 84, and 88 of the Identify Drive data. 108–1 1 1 The mandatory value of the wo rld wide name (WWN) for the drive. NOTE: This field is vali[...]

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    26 Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Ma nual, Rev. C 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 mode 1 is currently active. 10 Ultra DMA mode 2 is currently active. 11 Ultra DMA[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 27 4.3.2 Set Feature s command This command controls the im plementa tion of various featu res that the dr ive support s. When the drive receives th is com- mand, it sets BSY , checks the contents of the Features register , cl ears BSY and gener ates an interrupt. If the value in the register does no [...]

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    28 Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Ma nual, Rev. C 4.3.3 S.M.A. R.T . commands S.M.A.R.T . provides near-term failure pr ediction for disk drives. When S.M.A.R.T . is enabled, the drive moni tors predeter- mined drive attributes that are susce ptibl e to degradation over time. If self-mo nitori ng determines that a failure is likely , S.M.A.R.T . [...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 29 5.0 Seagate T echnology support services Internet For information regarding Seagate products a nd services, visit ww w .sea gate.com . Worldwid e support is available 24 hour s daily by e-mail for your questions. Presales Support: Presales@Seagate.co m T echnical Support: DiscSupport@Seagate.com W [...]

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    30 Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Ma nual, Rev. C Customer Service Operations W arranty Serv ice Seagate of fers wor ldwide customer support for Se agate produc ts . Seagate distributors, OEMs and other direct customers should contact the ir Seagate Customer Se rvice Operations (CSO) represent ative for warranty-related issues. Resellers or end u[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manua l, Rev. C 31 Index A acceleration 11 acoustics 12 active mode 9 agency certification 13 altitude 10 ambient temperature 7 , 10 areal density 5 ATA commands 21 Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 14 Australian Communicati on Authority (ACA) 14 Australian C-Tick 14 B buffer 6 C cables and connectors 17 [...]

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    32 Barracuda XT Series SAT A Product Manual, Rev. C K Korean Communication s Commission (KCC) 14 Korean Radio Rese arch Labora tory (RRL) 14 L LBA mode 5 length 6 logical geometry 5 M master/slave 2 mounting 18 N noise 9 nonoperating sh ock 11 nonoperating vibra tion 11 O operating (DC power) 7 operating power 7 operating shock 11 operating vibrati[...]

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    Barracuda XT Series SATA Product Manua l, Rev. C 33 shock 11 Sleep 22 sleep ( DC power ) 7 sleep mod e 9 sound 12 Specification summary table 3 spindle sp eed 5 spinup (DC power) 7 spinup po wer 7 Standby 22 standby (DC power) 7 Standby Immediate 22 standby mode 7 , 9 standby timer 9 standby to ready 6 Start/stop times 6 static-discharge 16 subasse[...]

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    34 Barracuda XT Series SAT A Product Manual, Rev. C[...]

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    Seagate T echnology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts V alle y , California 95066-4544, USA Publication Number: 1005866 89, Rev . C, Printed in U.S.A.[...]