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    Product Manual SV35.5 Series SA T A 100562053 Rev . A March 2009 ST31000525SV ST3500410SV ST325031 1SV[...]

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    Revision history Copyright © 2009 Seagate T echnology LLC. All right s reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100562053 , Rev . A March 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 othe r countries. SV3 5. 5 Series, SeaT ools and SeaTDD are eith er[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A i Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.0 Drive speci[...]

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    ii SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A iii List of Figures Figure 1. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 0 Figure 2. Mounting dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functiona l, mechanical an d interface specifications for the following Seagate SV35.5 TM Series model drive: These drives provide the following key fea tures: • Designed with low spin-up power for opti mization in surve illance applications • Uncompromising [...]

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    2 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduct Manua l, Rev. A 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 inst allation and configuration with true plug-and-pla y connectivity . It is not necessary to set a ny jump - ers or [...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 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 ables The[...]

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    4 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduct Manua l, Rev. A T able 1: Drive specifications summary fo r 1 Tbyte mode ls Drive specification ST31000525SV Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 1 Tbyte 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 cylinders 16,383 Recording de[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 5 * On e Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment 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 and powe[...]

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    6 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduct Manua l, Rev. A T able 2: Drive specifications summary for 500 and 250 G byte mode ls Drive specification ST3500410SV ST325031 1SV Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 500 Gbytes 250 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 976,773,168 488,397,168 Heads 2 1 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/writ[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 7 * On e Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard driv e capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment 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 and powe[...]

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    8 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduct Manua l, Rev. A 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 the drive in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively n umbered from 0 to n–1, [...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 9 2.5 Physical characteristics 2.6 Seek time Seek measurement s are t aken with nominal p ower at 25°C ambient temperatur e. All times are measured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in th e table belo w are defined as follows: • T rack-to-track s eek time is an averag e of all po ssible singl e[...]

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    10 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+ 5V or +12V) thro ugh a na tive SA T A power connector . See Figure 1 on page 20. 2.8.1 Power co nsumption Power requirement s for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. T ypical power measurement s are based on an average of drives tested,[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 11 2.8.4 Power-man agement mo des The drive provides progr ammable powe r management to provid e greater energy ef fici ency . In most systems, you can control power manage ment through the system setup program. The drive features the following power-management mod es: • Active mode The drive is in Active[...]

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    12 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A 2.9 Environment al specifications 2.9.1 Drive case temperatu re Above 1,000 feet (30 5 meters), the maximum tem perature is dera ted 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 2 on page 21. 2.9.2 T emperat[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 13 2.9.5 Sho ck 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 subjected to a [...]

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    14 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A 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 soun d power levels for , steady stat e, idle and a[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 15 2.12 Reliability 2.12.1 Annualized Failu re Rate (AFR) and Mean T ime Betwe en Failures (M TBF) The product shall achieve an Annua lized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.80% (MTBF of 1+ milli on hours) when oper- ated in an environme nt of am bient air t emperat ures of 25°C, assuming delta betwee n ambient air [...]

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    16 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A Korean RRL If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo , they comply with par agraph 1 of Article 1 1 of the El ectromagnetic Compatib ility control Regulation and meet the Electrom agnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requiremen ts of the Ra dio Resear ch Laboratory (RRL) Co[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 17 2.14 Environment al protection Seagate des igns its products to meet enviro nmental pr otection requirements wor ldwide, including regula tions restricting certain chemical substances. 2.14.1 European Union Restr iction of Hazardous Subst ances (RoHS) Directive The European Un ion Restriction of Hazardou[...]

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    18 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 19 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 di s- c[...]

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    20 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A 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 host [...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 21 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-mo unting hole s. See Figure 2 for drive mou nting dime nsions. Follo w these impor tant mounting pr ecau- tions when m ounting the drive: • Allow a minimum clearanc[...]

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    22 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 23 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 Serial A T [...]

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    24 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A 4.2 Serial A T A device p lug connector pin definitions Table 5 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 conne[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 25 4.3 Supported A T A commands The following t able lists st andard A T A an d SA T A commands that the drive su pports. For a det ailed description of the A T A comma nds, refer to Information technology -A T Att achment 8 - A T A/A T API Command Set (A T A8-ACS) ( www .t13.org) and Serial A T A Intern at[...]

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    26 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A 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 placed in the Set Max Features regis - ter as defined to the[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 27 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 block of data, whose contents are sho wn in T abl e 6 on page 25. All reserved bit s or words should be set to[...]

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    28 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A 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 number of u[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 29 Note. Advance d Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acou stic Manage ment (AAM) feat ures are not supp orted Note. See the bit descriptio ns below for words 63 , 84, and 88 of the Identify Drive data. 108– 111 The mandatory value of the worl d wide name (WWN) for the drive. NOTE: This field is valid i[...]

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    30 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A Bit Wor d 8 8 0 Ultra DMA mode 0 is supp orted. 1 Ultra DMA mode 1 is supp orted. 2 Ultra DMA mode 2 is supp orted. 3 Ultra DMA mode 3 is supp orted. 4 Ultra DMA mode 4 is supp orted. 5 Ultra DMA mode 5 is supp orted. 6 Ultra DMA mode 6 is supp orted. 8 Ultra DMA mode 0 is curren tly active. 9 Ultra D[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 31 4.3.2 Set Featu res command This command controls the implement ation of various fe at ures that th e drive support s. When the drive receives 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 n ot repre[...]

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    32 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T . commands S.M.A.R.T . provides near-term failure prediction fo r disc drives. When S.M.A.R.T . is enabled, the d rive moni- tors predetermined drive attributes that are suscep tible to degradation over time. If self- monitoring determin es that a failure is likely , S.M.A.R.T . makes [...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 33 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 e-mail for your questions. Presales Support: Presales@Seagate.com T echnical Support: DiscSupport@Seagate[...]

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    34 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A 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 en d us[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 35 Index A ACA 16 acceleration 13 acoustics 14 Active 11 Active m ode 11 AFR 15 Agency certification 15 altitude 12 ambient temper ature 9 , 10 Annualized Failure Rate 15 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 15 areal density 1 , 8 ATA commands 25 Australia/New Zealan d Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 1 6 Australian Communi[...]

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    36 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A Idle Immediat e 25 Idle mode 10 , 11 Information Technology Equipm ent (ITE) 15 Initialize Device Parameters 25 Input noise ripple 10 input voltage 10 interface 8 , 23 interferen ce 16 internal da ta-transfer rate OD 8 ITE 15 K KCC 16 Korean Communica tions Commission 16 Korean RRL 16 L LBA mode 8 len[...]

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    SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 37 sectors 8 Sectors per track 8 Security Disable Password 25 Security Erase Pre pare 26 Security Erase Unit 26 Security Freeze 26 Security Set Password 26 Security Unlock 26 Seek 26 Seek time 9 Serial ATA (SATA) interface 23 serial ATA ports 2 servo electronics 10 Set Features 26 Set Max Address 26 Set Max[...]

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    38 SV35.5 Series SATA Pr oduc t Manual, Re v. A[...]

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    Seagate T echnology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts V a lley , California 95066 -4544, USA Publication Number: 1005620 53, Rev . A, Printed in U.S.A.[...]