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Product Manual Barracuda ® Green 100649225 Rev. D June 2011 ST2000DL003 ST1500DL003[...]
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© 2011 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Publication number: 100649225, Rev. D, June 2011 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/ or other countries. Barracuda, SmartAlign and SeaTools are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology [...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Contents Seagate Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.1 Ab[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Figures Figure 1 Typical Current Profiles (5V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Figure 2 Typical Current Profiles (12V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Figure 3 Attaching [...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 7 For information regarding online support and services, visit http://www .seag ate.com/www/en-us/about/ contact_us/ Available services include: • Presales and Technical support • Global Support Services telephone numbers and business hours • Authorized Service Centers For information regarding Warr[...]
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8 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 9 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate ® Barracuda ® Green SATA model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 5900 RPM spindle speed • Seagate ® SmartAlign™ technology manages read-modify-write [...]
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10 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Introduction www.seagate.com The Serial ATA interface connects each disk drive in a point-to-point configuration with the Serial ATA host adapter. There is no master/slave relationship with Serial ATA devices like there is with parallel ATA. If two drives are attached on one Serial ATA host adapter, th[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 11 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 tables The spec[...]
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12 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Drive Specifications www.seagate.com Width (max) 101.85mm / 4.0 in ( ± 0.010 in) 101.85mm / 4.0 in ( ± 0.010 in) Length (max) 147.00mm / 5.78 in 147.00mm / 5.78 in Weight (typical) 635g / 1.39 lb 635g / 1.39 lb Average latency 5.08ms 5.08ms Power-on to ready (max) <17s <17s Standby to ready (ma[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 13 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications *One Gbyte equals one billion 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. specification, whic[...]
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14 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.4 Recording and interface technology 2.5 Physical characteristics 2.6 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 follow[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 15 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.7 Start/stop times Start/stop times for alll models are listed below. Time-to-ready may be longer than normal if the drive power is removed without going through normal OS power- down procedures. 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) t[...]
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16 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Drive Specifications www.seagate.com Figure 1 Typical Current Profiles (5V) Figure 2 Typical Current Profiles (12V)[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 17 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.8.2 Conducted noise Input noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply across an equivalent 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 expected to operate with a max[...]
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18 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.9 Environmental specifications 2.9.1 Ambient temperature Ambient temperature is defined as the temperature of the environment immediately surrounding the drive. Actual drive case temperature should not exceed 69°C (156°F) within the operating ambient conditions.[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 19 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.9.5.2 Nonoperating shock 2000GB and 1500GB models The nonoperating shock level that the drive can experience without incurring physical damage or degradation in performance when subsequently put into operation is 300 Gs based on a nonrepetitive half-sine shock pul[...]
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20 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.10.1 Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs) Seagate follows the ECMA-74 standards for measurement and identification of PDTs. An exception to this process is the use of the absolute threshold of hearing. Seagate uses this threshold curve (originated in ISO 389- [...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 21 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications The desktop personal computer environment of power-on-hours, temperature, and I/O duty cycle affect the product AFR and MTBF. The AFR and MTBF will be degraded if used in an enterprise application. 2.13 Warranty To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a [...]
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22 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.14.3 FCC verification These drives are intended to be contained solely within a personal computer or similar enclosure (not attached as an external device). As such, each drive is considered to be a subassembly even when it is individually marketed to the customer[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 23 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.15 Environmental protection Seagate designs its products to meet environmental protection requirements worldwide, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances. 2.15.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive The European[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 25 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 electrostatic discharge (ES[...]
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26 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com Figure 3 Attaching SATA cabling Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. Barracuda Green drives support latching SATA connectors. 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or fo[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 27 www.seagate.com Configuring and Mounting the Drive Figure 4 Mounting dimensions (2000 and 1500GB models) Recommended case temperature measurement location[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 29 4.0 Serial ATA 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 Serial ATA interface, refe[...]
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30 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Serial ATA Interface www.seagate.com Notes: 1. All pins are in a single row, with a 1.27mm (0.050”) pitch. 2. The comments on the mating sequence apply to the case of backplane blindmate connector only. In this case, the mating sequences are: • the ground pins P4 and P12. • the pre-charge power p[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 31 www.seagate.com Serial ATA Interface Device Configuration Restore B1 H / C0 H Device Configuration Set B1 H / C3 H Device Reset 08 H Download Microcode 92 H Execute Device Diagnostics 90 H Flush Cache E7 H Flush Cache Extended EA H Format Track 50 H Identify Device EC H Idle E3 H Idle Immediate E1 H In[...]
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32 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Serial ATA Interface www.seagate.com 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 Fea- tures register as defined to the right. Address: Password: Lock: Unlock: Freeze Lock: 00 H 01 H 02 [...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 33 www.seagate.com Serial ATA Interface 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 in on page 30. All reserved bits o[...]
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34 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Serial ATA Interface www.seagate.com 52 Retired 0200 H 53 Words 54–58, 64–70 and 88 are valid 0007 H 54 Number of current logical cylinders xxxx H 55 Number of current logical heads xxxx H 56 Number of current logical sectors per logical track xxxx H 57–58 Current capacity in sectors xxxx H 59 Nu[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 35 www.seagate.com Serial ATA Interface 86 Command sets enabled BE01 H 87 Command sets enable extension 4123 H 88 Ultra DMA support and current mode (see note following this table) xx 7F H 89 Security erase time 00A9 H 90 Enhanced security erase time 00A9 H 92 Master password revision code FFFE H 93 Hardw[...]
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36 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Serial ATA Interface www.seagate.com 10 Multiword DMA mode 2 is currently active. 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 fea[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 37 www.seagate.com Serial ATA Interface 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 t[...]
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38 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Serial ATA Interface 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 l[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 39 www.seagate.com Serial ATA Interface[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 41 Index A ACA 21 acceleration 19 acoustics 19 Active 17 Active mode 17 AFR 20 Agency certification 21 altitude 18 Ambient temperature 18 ambient temperature 14 , 15 Annualized Failure Rate 21 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 21 areal density 9 , 14 ATA commands 30 Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CISPR2[...]
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42 Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Input noise ripple 17 input voltage 15 interface 14 , 29 interference 22 internal data-transfer rate OD 14 is 14 ISO document 7779 19 ITE 21 K KCC 21 Korean Communications Commission 21 Korean RRL 21 L latency 14 LBA mode 13 length 14 logical geometry 13 M maintenance 21 master/slave 10 Mean Time Betwe[...]
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Barracuda Green SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 43 Security Erase Prepare 31 Security Erase Unit 31 Security Freeze 31 Security Set Password 31 Security Unlock 32 See “S.M.A.R.T. commands” on page 34 30 Seek 32 Seek time 14 Serial ATA (SATA) interface 29 serial ATA ports 10 servo electronics 15 Set Features 32 Set Max Address 32 Set Max Address Ext[...]
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