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    Product Manual Pipeline HD.2 Series SA T A 100529372 Rev . B April 2009 ST31000424CS ST31000322CS ST3500414CS ST3500312CS ST3320413CS ST332031 1CS ST3250312CS ST3160316CS Print Date:2009-May-5 09:42:43 CDT Released; Proto-Type; B; 100529372 Seagate Confidential[...]

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    Revision history Copyright © 2009 Seagate T echnology LLC. All right s reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 1005 29372, Rev . B April 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 ei[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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. B Print Date:2009-May-5 09:42:43 CDT Released; Proto-Type; B; 100529372 Seagate Confidential[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B iii List of Figures Figure 1. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 2 Figure[...]

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    Print Date:2009-May-5 09:42:43 CDT Released; Proto-Type; B; 100529372 Seagate Confidential[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functiona l, mechanical an d interface specifications for the following Seagate Pipeline HD TM .2 Series mode l drive: These drives provide the following key fea tures: • High insta ntaneo us (burst) dat a-transfer rates 3Gb /s def ault. Limit settings t[...]

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    2 Pipeline H D.2 Series SAT A Product Ma nual, Rev. B 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. B 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. B 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. B 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. B T able 2: Drive specifications summary for 500 and 320 G byte mode ls Drive specification ST3500414CS ST3500312CS ST3320413CS ST332031 1CS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 500 Gbytes 320 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 976,773,168 625,142,448 Heads 2 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors [...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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. B T able 3: Drive specifications summary for 250 and 160 G byte mode ls Drive specification ST3250312CS ST3500312CS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 250 Gbytes 160 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 488,397,168 312,58 1,808 Heads 1 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default rea[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 9 * 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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    10 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B 2.2 Formatted cap acity Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector ST31000424CS ST31000322CS 1000 Gbytes 1,953,525,168 512 ST3500414CS ST3500312CS 500 Gbytes 976,773,168 ST3320413CS ST332031 1CS 320 Gbytes 625,142,448 ST3250312CS 250 Gbytes 488,397,168 ST3160316CS 160 Gbytes 3[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 1 1 2.5 Physical characteristics 1000 GB model 500, 320, 250 and 160 GB model Maximum height 26.1 mm (1.028 inches) 20.20 mm (0.7 94 inches) Maximum wid th 101.85 mm (4.010 inches) Maximum length 146.99 mm (5.787 inches) T ypica l weight 600 grams (1.323 lb.) 380 grams (0.838 lb.) Cache buffer ST3100[...]

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    12 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a na tive SA T A power connector . See Figure 2 on p age 22. 2.8.1 Power co nsumption Power requirement s for the drive s are listed in the t able on pag e 9. T ypical power measurements are ba sed on a n average of drive[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 1 3 2.8.1.1 T ypical cu rrent profile s Figure 1. T y pical 12V startup and operation cu rrent 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 +12 volt line or an equiva lent 15-ohm resistive loa d on t[...]

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    14 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B 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. B 1 5 2.9 Environment al specifications 2.9.1 Drive case tempera ture Above 1,000 feet (305 me ters), the maximum tem perature is de rated 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 3 on page 23. * Ambient [...]

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    16 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B 2.9.5 Shock 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 subject[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 1 7 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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    18 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B 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 ou tside the specifications in Section 2.9 may increase the product AFR.[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 1 9 Korean RRL If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo , they comply with paragr aph 1 of Article 1 1 of the El ectromagnetic Compatib ility control Regulation and meet the Electrom agnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework require ments of the Ra dio Resear ch Laborator y (R[...]

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    20 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B 2.14 Environment al protection Seagate designs it s product s to me et environment al pr otection requirement s worldwide, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances. 2.14.1 European Union Restr iction of Hazardous Subst ances (RoHS) Directive The Europea n Union Restr iction [...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2 1 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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    22 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B 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. B 2 3 3.4 Drive mounting Y ou can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-mou nting holes. Se e Figure 3 f or drive mount ing dimension s. Follow thes e important mountin g precau- tions when m ounting the drive: • Allow a minimum c[...]

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    Recommended case temperature measurement location 24 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B Figure 4. Mounting di mensions (fo r 500, 320, 250 and 160 GB models) Print Date:2009-May-5 09:42:43 CDT Released; Proto-Type; B; 100529372 Seagate Confidential[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2 5 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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    26 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B 4.2 Serial A T A device p lug connector pin definitions Table 7 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. B 2 7 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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    28 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B Recalibra te 10 H Security Disable Password F6 H 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 Features EF H Set Max Address F9 H Note: Individual Set Max Address commands are identifie d by the value place[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2 9 Write Sectors Extended 34 H Write S tream DMA Extended 3A H Write S tream Extended 3B H Command name Command code (in hex) Print Date:2009-May-5 09:42:43 CDT Released; Proto-Type; B; 100529372 Seagate Confidential[...]

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    30 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B 4.3.1 Identify D evice comman d 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 sing le 512-byte blo ck of data, whose cont ents are shown in T a ble 8 on page 27. All reserved bits or words sh ou[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 3 1 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, 1 37 Gbytes). Drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes will have 0FFFFFFF h in this field and the actual nu[...]

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    32 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acou stic Ma nagement (AAM) feat ures are not supported Note. See the bit descriptions below for words 63 , 84, and 88 of the Identify Drive data. 100–103 T otal number of user-addressable LBA sectors avai lable (see Section 2.2 for related i[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 3 3 Bit Word 84 0 SMART error loggin is supported. 1 SMART self-test is supported. 2 Media serial number is supported . 3 Media Card Pass Through Comman d feature set is supporte d. 4 S treaming feature set is supported. 5 GPL feature set is suppo rted. 6 WRITE DMA FUA EXT and WRITE MUL TIP LE FUA EX[...]

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    34 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B 4.3.2 Set Featu res command This command controls the implemen tation of various fe at ures th at the drive suppo rts. When the drive r eceives 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 [...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 3 5 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T . commands S.M.A.R.T . provides near-term failure prediction for d isc drives. When S.M.A.R.T . is enabled, the drive moni- tors predetermined drive attributes that are suscep tible to degradation ove r time. If self-monitoring dete rmines that a failure is likely , S.M.A.R.T . ma[...]

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    36 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B Print Date:2009-May-5 09:42:43 CDT Released; Proto-Type; B; 100529372 Seagate Confidential[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 3 7 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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    38 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B 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. B 3 9 Index A ACA 19 acceleration 16 acoustics 17 Active 14 Active m ode 14 AFR 18 Agency certification 18 altitude 15 ambient temper ature 11 , 12 Annualized Failure Rate 18 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 18 areal density 1 , 10 ATA commands 27 Australia/New Zealan d Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 1 9 Australi[...]

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    40 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B Identify Devic e command 30 Idle 14 , 27 Idle Immediat e 27 Idle mode 12 , 14 Information Technology Equipm ent (ITE) 18 Initialize Device Parameters 27 Input noise ripple 13 input voltage 12 interface 10 , 25 interferen ce 19 internal da ta-transfer rate OD 10 ITE 18 K KCC 19 Korean Communica t[...]

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    Pipeline HD.2 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 4 1 Safety certification 18 SATA 25 screws 16 sectors 10 Sectors per track 10 Security Disable Password 28 Security Erase Pre pare 28 Security Erase Unit 28 Security Freeze 28 Security Set Password 28 Security Unlock 28 Seek 28 Seek time 11 Serial ATA (SATA) interface 25 serial ATA ports 2 servo elec[...]

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    42 Pipeline HD.2 Series SAT A Product M anual, Rev. B Print Date:2009-May-5 09:42:43 CDT Released; Proto-Type; B; 100529372 Seagate Confidential[...]

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    Print Date:2009-May-5 09:42:43 CDT Released; Proto-Type; B; 100529372 Seagate Confidential[...]

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    Seagate T echnology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts V a lley , California 95066 -4544, USA Publication Number: 1005293 72, Rev . B, Printed in U.S.A. Print Date:2009-May-5 09:42:43 CDT Released; Proto-Type; B; 100529372 Seagate Confidential[...]