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    Product Manual Seagate Terascale HDD ® 100724268 Rev. B May 2013 Standard Model ST4000NC001 Instant Secure Erase Model ST4000NC000[...]

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    © 2013 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Publication number: 100724268, Rev. B May 2013 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/ or other countries. Seagate Terascale HDD and SeaTools are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LL[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B i Contents Seagate® Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B ii Figures Figure 1 Typical 4TB model 5V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Figure 2 Typical 4TB model 12V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Figure 3 Location of the HDA temperature check point . . . . . [...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 1 For information regarding online support and services, visit http://www.seagate.com/about/contact-us/technical-support/ Available services include: • Presales & Technical support • Global Support Services telephone numbers & business hours • Authorized Service Centers For information rega[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 2 www.seagate.com 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Seagate ® Terascale HDD model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 5900 RPM spindle speed. • PowerChoice™ for selectable power savings ?[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 3 www.seagate.com 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[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 4 www.seagate.com * 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 of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specifi[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 5 www.seagate.com 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 additional inform[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 6 www.seagate.com 2.5 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 average of all possible single-track seeks in both [...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 7 www.seagate.com * During periods 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. • Spinup power Spinup power is measured from the time of power-on to the time that the drive spindle reaches operati[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 8 www.seagate.com 2.7.1.1 Typical current profiles 4TB model current profile Figure 1 Typical 4TB model 5V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile Figure 2 Typical 4TB model 12V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 9 www.seagate.com 2.7.2 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 with a maximum of 12[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 10 www.seagate.com 2.7.4.1 Extended Power Conditions - PowerChoice TM Utilizing the load/unload architecture a programmable power management interface is provided to tailor systems for reduced power consumption and performance requirements. The table below lists the supported power conditions available i[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 11 www.seagate.com PowerChoice Manufacture Default Power Condition Timer Values Default power condition timer values have been established to assure product reliability and data integrity. A minimum timer value threshold of two minutes ensures the appropriate amount of background drive maintenance activi[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 12 www.seagate.com 2.8 Environmental limits Temperature and humidity values experienced by the drive must be such that condensation does not occur on any drive part. Altitude and atmospheric pressure specifications are referenced to a standard day at 58.7°F (14.8°C). Maximum wet bulb temperature is 82?[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 13 www.seagate.com 2.8.3 Altitude 2.8.4 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. 2.8.4.1 Operating shock These drives comply with the performance levels specified in this[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 14 www.seagate.com 2.9 Acoustics Drive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound power levels (no pure tones). All measurements are consistent with ISO document 7779. Sound power measurements are taken under essentially free-field conditions over a reflecting plane. For all tests, the d[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 15 www.seagate.com 2.12 Reliability 2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) The product shall achieve an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 1.1% (MTBF of 800 thousand hours) when operated at nominal power and typical case temperatures of 40°C. Operation at temperatures o[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 16 www.seagate.com 2.13 Agency certification 2.13.1 Safety certification These products are certified to meet the requirements of UL60950-1, CSA60950-1 and EN60950 and so marked as to the certify agency. 2.13.2 Electromagnetic compatibility Hard drives that display the CE mark comply with the European Un[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 17 www.seagate.com 2.14 Environmental protection Seagate designs its products to meet environmental protection requirements worldwide, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances. 2.14.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive The European Union Restriction o[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 18 www.seagate.com 2.16 Product warranty Beginning on the date of shipment to the customer and continuing for the period specified in your purchase contract, Seagate warrants that each product (including components and subassemblies) that fails to function properly under normal use due to defect in mater[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 19 www.seagate.com 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 electrosta[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 20 www.seagate.com 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom- mounting holes. Refer to F ig u re 5 for drive mounting dimensions. Follow these important mounting precautions when mounting the drive: • Allow a [...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 21 www.seagate.com 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,[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 22 www.seagate.com 4.2 SATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 5 summarizes the signals on the SATA interface and power connectors. Notes 1. All pins are in a single row, with a 1.27 mm (0.050”) pitch. 2. The comments on the mating sequence apply to the case of backplane blindmate connector on[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 23 www.seagate.com 4.3 Supported ATA commands The following table lists SATA standard commands that the drive supports. For a detailed description of the ATA commands, refer to the Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 3.0 ( http://www.sata-io.org ). See “S.M.A.R.T. commands” on [...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 24 www.seagate.com 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 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 [...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 25 www.seagate.com 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 on page 23. All reserved bits or words should be set t[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 26 www.seagate.com 68 Minimum PIO cycle time with IORDY flow control (120 nsec) 0078 H 69–74 ATA-reserved 0000 H 75 Queue depth 001F H 76 SATA capabilities xxxx H 77 Reserved for future SATA definition xxxx H 78 SATA features supported xxxx H 79 SATA features enabled xxxx H 80 Major version number 03F0[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 27 www.seagate.com Bit Word 84 0 SMART error login is supported. 1 SMART self-test is supported. 2 Media serial number is supported. 3 Media Card Pass Through Command feature set is supported. 4 Streaming feature set is supported. 5 GPL feature set is supported. 6 WRITE DMA FUA EXT and WRITE MULTIPLE FUA[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 28 www.seagate.com 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 register does not[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 29 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.A.R.T. ma[...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 30 A ACA 16 acoustics 14 Active 9 Active mode 9 actuator arm 6 Agency certification 16 altitude 13 ambient 12 Ambient temperature 12 ambient temperature 6 Annualized Failure Rate 16 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 15 areal density 5 ATA commands 23 Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 16 Australian[...]

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    31 Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B Nonoperating vibration 13 Nonrecoverable read errors 15 NOP 23 O Operating power 6 Operating shock 13 Operating vibration 13 P peak operating current 7 Physical characteristics 5 point-to-point 2, 19 Power consumption 6 power consumption 6 Power modes 9 Power specifications 6 Power-management modes 9 [...]

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    Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 32 track density 5 Track-to-track 6 Track-to-track seek time 6 U UL60950-1 16 V Vibration 13 voltage 6 Voltage dips, interrupts 14 Voltage tolerance 9 W weight 5 Workload 15 Write Buffer 24 Write Buffer DMA 24 Write DMA 24 Write DMA Extended 24 Write DMA FUA Extended 24 Write Log DMA Ext 24 Write Log Ext[...]

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    Seagate Technology LLC AMERICAS Seagate Technology LLC 10200 South De Anza Boulevard, Cupertino, California 95014, United States, 408-658-1000 ASIA/PACIFIC Seagate Singapore International Headquarters Pte. Ltd. 7000 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, Singapore 569877, 65-6485-3888 EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Seagate Technology SAS 16-18 rue du Dôme, 92100 Bo[...]