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    Product Manual Pipeline HD ® 100633414 Rev. B January 2011 ST2000VM002 ST1500VM002[...]

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    © 2011 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Publication number: 100633414, Rev. B January 2011 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/ or other countries. Pipeline HD and SeaTools are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or o[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Contents Seagate Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.1 About [...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Figures Figure 1 Typical Current Profiles (5V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Figure 2 Typical Current Profiles (12V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Figure 3 Attaching SATA[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 7 For information regarding online support and services, visit http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/ Available services include: • Presales & Technical support • Global Support Services telephone numbers & business hours • Authorized Service Centers For information regarding Warrant[...]

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    8 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 9 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Pipeline HD ® SATA model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 5900 RPM spindle speed • High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates with a default of 3Gb/s. L[...]

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    10 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Introduction www.seagate.com In addition, Serial ATA makes the transition from parallel ATA easy by providing legacy software support. Serial ATA was designed to allow you to install a Serial ATA host adapter and Serial ATA disk drive in your current system and expect all of your existing applications to w[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 specific[...]

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    12 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com * 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, which [...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 13 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.2 Formatted capacity *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutiv[...]

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    14 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.5 Physical characteristics Maximum height 2000GB and 1500GB models 26.1mm / 1.028 in Maximum width 101.6mm / 4.0 in (± 0.010 in) Maximum length 147.00mm / 5.78 in Typical weight 2000GB and 1500GB models 635g / 1.39 lb Cache buffer 2000 and 1500GB models 64MB (65,536k[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 15 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications • Spinup power Spinup power is measured from the time of power-on to the time that the drive spindle reaches operating speed. • Read/write power and current Read/write power is measured with the heads on track, based on a 16-sector write followed by a 32-ms delay, t[...]

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    16 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com Figure 1 Typical Current Profiles (5V) Figure 2 Typical Current Profiles (12V)[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 12V power, the drive is expected to operate with a maximum [...]

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    18 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.9 Environmental specifications 2.9.1 Drive case temperature Ambient temperature is defined as the temperature of the environment immediately surrounding the drive. Drive case temperature should be measured at the location indicated in Figure 4 . 2.9.2 Temperature grad[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 19 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 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 pulse of 2ms duration. 2.9.6 Vibra[...]

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    20 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.10 Acoustics Table 3 Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor acoustics 2.0 bels (typ) 2.2 bels (max) 2.2 bels (typ) 2.4 bels (max) Drive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound power levels (no pure tones). All measurements are consistent with ISO docume[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 21 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.12 Warranty To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the following web page: support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp From this page, click on the “Verify Your Warranty” link. You will be asked to provide the drive se[...]

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    22 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com This equipment is designed to provide reasonable protection against such interference in a residential installation. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause interference to radio or telev[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 23 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.15 Corrosive environment Seagate electronic drive components pass accelerated corrosion testing equivalent to 10 years exposure to light industrial environments containing sulfurous gases, chlorine and nitric oxide, classes G and H per ASTM B845. However, this acceler[...]

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    24 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 (ESD) h[...]

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    26 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com Figure 3 Attaching SATA cabling Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. Pipeline HD 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 four screw[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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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    28 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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, refer to[...]

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    30 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 pins [...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 31 www.seagate.com Serial ATA Interface Device Configuration Identify B1 H / C2 H 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[...]

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    32 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Serial ATA Interface www.seagate.com 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 identified by the value placed in the Set Max Fea- tu[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 4096-byte block of data, whose contents are shown in on page 30. All reserved bits or w[...]

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    34 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Serial ATA Interface www.seagate.com 47 (Bits 7–0) Maximum sectors per interrupt on Read multiple and Write multiple (16) 8010 H 48 Reserved 0000 H 49 Standard Standby timer, IORDY supported and may be disabled 2F00 H 50 ATA-reserved 4000 H 51 PIO data-transfer cycle timing mode 0200 H 52 Retired 0200 H [...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 35 www.seagate.com Serial ATA Interface 81 Minor version number 0028 H 82 Command sets supported 346B H 83 Command sets supported 7F01 H 84 Command sets support extension (see note following this table) 4123 H See Word 108-111 note. (4123 H = 010000010010001 binary) 85 Command sets enabled 34 xx H 86 Command [...]

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    36 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Serial ATA Interface www.seagate.com Table 8 Bit Descriptions Description (if bit is set to 1) Bit Word 63 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. 9 Multiword DMA mode 1 is currently active. 1[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 the r[...]

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    38 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 likel[...]

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    Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 39 Index A ACA 21 Acceleration 19 Acoustics 20 Active 17 Active mode 17 Agency certification 21 Altitude 18 Ambient temperature 14 , 18 Areal density 9 , 13 ATA commands 30 Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 21 Australian Communication Authority (ACA) 21 Australian C-Tick 21 Average latency 14 Avera[...]

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    40 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B L Latency 14 LBA mode 13 Length 14 Logical geometry 13 M Master/slave 10 Mounting 26 Mounting screws 18 Mounting the drive 25 N Noise 17 Nominal power 14 Nonoperating shock 18 Nonoperating vibration 19 O Operating 15 Operating shock 18 Operating vibration 19 P Physical characteristics 14 Point-to-point 10 [...]

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    41 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Standby mode 15 , 17 Standby timer 17 Standby to Ready 14 Start/stop times 14 Static-discharge 25 Subassembly 21 Surge immunity 20 T Temperature 14 , 18 Temperature gradient 18 Timer 17 Timers 17 Track density 13 Track-to-track 14 Track-to-track seek time 14 Tunneling magnetoresistive (TMR) recording heads[...]

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    42 Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B[...]

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    Seagate Technology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066-4544, USA Publication Number: 100633414, Rev. B[...]