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    Product Manual Barracuda 7200.10 Serial A T A 100480757 Re v . B January 2008 ST3250410AS ST3250310AS[...]

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    Revision history Copyright © 2007-2008 Se agate T echnology LL C. All rights reserv ed. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100480757, Rev . B January 2008 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. Barr acuda, SeaT ools and SeaTDD are eithe[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B i Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.0 [...]

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    ii Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B iii List of Figures Figure 1. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functiona l, mechanical an d interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda ® 7200.10 Serial A T A model drives: These drives provide the following key fea tures: • 7,200 RPM spindl e speed. • High instant aneous (burst) da ta-tran s[...]

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    2 Barracuda 7200.10 Ser ial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. B 1.1 About the Serial A T A interface The Serial A T A interface provides several ad vanta ges over the traditional (p arallel) A T A interf ace. The p rimary advantages include : • Easy installation and configuration with true plug-and-play connectivity . It is not necessary to set any jump [...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. 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 models: 2.1 Spec ification summary[...]

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    4 Barracuda 7200.10 Ser ial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. B T able 1: Drive specifications summary for 250 Gbyte models Drive specification ST3250410AS ST3250310AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 250 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 488,397,168 Heads 2 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinde[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. 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 coust[...]

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    6 Barracuda 7200.10 Ser ial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. B 2.2 Formatted cap acity *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referri ng to hard drive capacity. Accessible c apa city may vary dependin g on operating envir onment and formatting. 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these d rives in LBA mode, all bloc ks ( sectors) are consecutively numbered fr[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 7 2.5 Physical characteristics 2.6 Seek time Seek measurement s are taken with nominal p ower at 25°C ambient temperature. All tim es are measured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in th e table belo w are defined as follows: • T ra ck-to-track seek time is an averag e of all possibl[...]

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    8 Barracuda 7200.10 Ser ial ATA Produc t Manual, Rev. B 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+ 5V or +12V) thro ugh a na tive SA T A power connector . See Figure 2 on page 18. 2.8.1 Power co nsumption Power requirement s for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. T ypical power measurements ar e based on an average of drives[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 9 2.8.2 C onducted noise Input noise ripp le is measured at th e host system powe r supply across an equivalent 80-ohm resistive load o n the +12 volt line or an equival ent 15-ohm resistive load on the +5 volt line. • Using 12-volt power , the drive is ex pected to operate with a maximum of 12[...]

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    10 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.9 Environment al specifications 2.9.1 Ambient tempe rature Ambient temperatur e is defined as the temperatur e of the environment im mediatel y surrounding the drive. Actual drive c ase temper ature shou ld not exce ed 69°C (1 56°F) within th e operating ambient co nditions. Above 1,000 fe[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 11 2.9.6 Vibration All vibration specifications assume that the drive is mounted secur e ly with the input vibration applied at the drive mountin g screws. Vibration may be applie d in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.9.6.1 Operating vibration The maximum vibration levels tha t the drive may expe rie n ce w[...]

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    12 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.1 1 Electromagnetic immunity When properly installed in a represen tative host system , the drive operates withou t errors or degrad ation in performance when subjected to the radio frequency (RF) environment s defined in the following table: T able 4: Radio frequency env ironment s T est De[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 13 2.12 Reliability 2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean T ime Between Failures (MTBF ) The product shall achi eve an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.34% (MTBF of 0.7 million hours) when oper- ated in an envir onment of am bient air tem peratures of 25 ° C. Operation at temperatures [...]

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    14 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Korean RRL If these drives have the Korea Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) logo, th ey comply with p a ra- graph 1 of Article 1 1 of the Electr omagnetic Compatibility co ntrol Regulation and me et the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirement s of the Radio Rese[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 15 2.14 Environment al protection Seagate des igns its products to meet envi ronmental pr otection requirements worl dwide, including regulatio ns restricting certain chemical substances. 2.14.1 European Union Restric tion of Hazardous Subst ances (RoHS) Directive Seagate des igns its products to[...]

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    16 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 17 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-discharge precautions After unp acking, and before installation, the drive may be exposed to po tential handling and electrostatic[...]

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    18 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Seri al A T A interface connects point-to-point with the Serial A T A host adapter . 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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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 19 3.4 Drive mounting Y ou can mount the drive in any orient ation using four screws in the side- mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-mounting holes. See Figu res 3 for drive mounti ng dimensions . Follow these importa n t mounting pre- cautions when mounting th e drive: • Allow a minim[...]

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    20 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 21 4.0 Serial A T A (SA T A) interface These drives use the industry-s tandard Ser ial A T A interfac e that supp orts FIS data transfers. It suppor ts A T A programmed input/o utput (PIO) modes 0–4; mult iword DMA modes 0–2, and Ultra DM A modes 0–6. For det ailed information abou t the Se[...]

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    22 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 4.2 Serial A T A device plug connector pin definitions Table 5 summarizes the sig nals on the Se rial ATA interface and power conn ectors. . 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 blindma[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 23 4.3 Supported A T A commands The following t able list s Serial A T A standard comman ds that the drive suppo rts. For a det ailed description of the A T A commands, refer to the Serial A T A: High S peed Serialized A T Attachment specification . See “S.M.A.R.T . commands” on pa ge 30.for [...]

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    24 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 placed in the Set Max Features regis - ter as defined to the right. Address: Pas[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 25 4.3.1 Identify Dev ice command The Identify Device command (command code EC H ) transfers information about the drive to the host following power up. The da ta is organized as a sing le 512-byte blo ck of data, whose conten ts are shown in T able 6 on page 23. All reserved bit s or words shoul[...]

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    26 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 60–61 T otal number of user-addressable LBA sectors available (see Section 2.2 for related information) *Note: The maximum value allowed in this field is: 0FFFFFFFh (268,435,455 sectors, 137 Gbytes). Drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes will have 0FFFFFFFh in this fi eld and the actual num[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 27 Note. Advance d Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acou stic Manage ment (AAM) feat ures are not supp orted 129– 159 Seagate-reserved xxxx H 160– 254 A T A-reserved 00 00 H 255 Integ rity word xxA5 H Word Description V alue[...]

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    28 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Note. See the bit descriptio ns below for words 63 , 88, and 93 of the Identify Drive data. Description (if bit is set to 1) Bit Wor d 6 3 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 activ[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 29 4.3.2 Set Featu res comman d This command controls the implement ation of various feat ures that th e drive supports. When the drive receives this command, it sets BSY , checks the contents of the Featur es register , clears BSY and generate s an inter- rupt. If the value in the register does [...]

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    30 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T . commands S.M.A.R.T . provides near-term failure prediction for disc drives. When S.M.A.R.T . is enabled, the drive moni- tors predetermined drive attributes that are suscep t ible to degradation ove r time. If self-monitoring determin es that a failure is likely , S.M.A.R.T .[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 31 5.0 Seagate T echnology support services Online services Internet For information regarding Se agate products and ser vices, visit www .sea gate.com . Worldwide support is available 24 hours da ily by email for your questions. Presales Support: Presales@Seagate.com T echnical Support: DiscSupp[...]

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    32 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Customer Service Operations W arranty Service Seagate of fers worldwide customer support for Seagate product s. Seagate distributor s, OEMs and ot her direct customers should contact their Seagate Customer Serv ice Operat ions (CSO) re presentative for warr anty- related issues. Resellers or e[...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 33 Index A ACA 14 acceleration 11 acoustics 11 Active 9 Active m ode 9 actuator arm 8 AFR 13 Agency certification 13 altitude 10 Ambient tempera ture 10 ambient temper ature 7 , 8 Annualized Failure Rate 13 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 13 areal density 1 , 6 ATA commands 23 Australia/New Zeala n[...]

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    34 Barracuda 7200.10 Seria l ATA Product Manual, Rev. B I I/O data-tr ansfer rate 6 I/O duty cycle 13 Identify Devic e 23 Identify Devic e command 25 Idle 9 , 23 Idle Immediat e 23 Idle mode 8 , 9 IEC950 13 Information Technology Equipm ent (ITE) 13 Initialize Device Parameters 23 Input noise ripple 9 input voltage 8 interface 6 , 21 interferen ce [...]

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    Barracuda 7200.10 Serial ATA Product Manual, Re v. B 35 S S.M.A.R.T. Disable Operations 24 S.M.A.R.T. Enable O perations 24 S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Autosave 24 S.M.A.R.T. Execute Offline 24 S.M.A.R.T. implement ation 23 S.M.A.R.T. Read At tribute Th resholds 24 S.M.A.R.T. Read Data 24 S.M.A.R.T. Read Log Sector 24 S.M.A.R.T. Return Status 24 S.M.[...]

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    Seagate T echnolog y LLC 920 Disc Drive , Scotts V all ey , California 95066-4544, USA Publication Number: 1004807 57, Rev . B, Printed in U.S.A.[...]