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    Product Manual Barracuda 100636864 Rev . B March 2011 ST31000524AS ST3750525AS ST3500413AS ST3320413AS ST3250312AS ST3160316AS[...]

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    Copyright © 2011 Seagate T echnology LLC. All rights r eserved. Seagate, Seagate T echnology and the W ave logo are r egistered trad emarks of Seagate T echnology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Barracu da, SeaT ools and SeaTDD are either trademar ks or re gistered tradem arks of Seagate T echnology LLC or one of its af filiated c[...]

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

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Figures Figure 1 Attaching SATA c abling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Figure 2 Mounting dim ensions (100 0 and 750GB models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Figure 3 Mounting dim ensions (5 00, 3[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 7 For information r egar ding online suppor t and services, visit http://www .sea gate.com/www/en-us/about/ contact_ us/ Available services include: • Pres ales & T echnic al support • Global Support Serv ices telephone nu mbers & business h ours • Authorized Service Centers For informat ion regar[...]

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    8 Barracuda SATA Product Manual , Rev. B[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 9 1.0 Intr oduction This manual describes the functiona l, mechanical and in terface specificat ions for the follo wing Seagate Barracuda ® model drives: These drives pr ovide t he following key featur es: • 7200 RPM spindle s peed. • High instantaneous (burst) data-trans fer rates (up to 600MB per second)[...]

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    10 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Introduction www.seagate.com The Serial A T A host adapter and drive shar e the functio n of emulating paralle l A T A device behavior to pr ovide backward compatibility with existing host systems and software. The Command and Control Block r egisters, PIO and DMA data tra nsfers, resets, and interrupts are[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 11 2.0 Drive Specifications Unless otherwise n oted, all specificatio ns are measured under ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power . For convenien ce, the phra ses the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to indic ate the following drive models: 2.1 Specification summary tables The spec[...]

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    12 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com * One GB eq uals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating env ironment and formatting. * *During periods of drive idle, some offlin e activity may occur according to the S.M. A.R.T. specification, which [...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 13 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications Record ing density (max.) 1413kb/in 1413kb/in T rack density (avg.) 236 ktracks/in 236 ktracks/in Areal density (avg.) 329Gb/in 2 329Gb/in 2 Spindle speed 7200 RPM 7200 RPM Internal data tran sf er rate (max) 1695Mb/s 1695Mb/s Sustained data transf er rate O D (max) 125MB[...]

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    14 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com * One GB eq uals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating env ironment and formatting. * *During periods of drive idle, some offlin e activity may occur according to the S.M. A.R.T. specification, which [...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 15 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications * One GB equals one billion bytes when referri ng to hard drive capacity. Ac cessible capa city may vary depending on o perating env ironment and formatting. * *During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur acco rding to the S.M.A. R.T. specification, whic[...]

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    16 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these dr ives in LBA mode, all blocks (se ctors) are consecutively nu mbered from 0 to n–1, where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as def ined above . See Section 4.3.1 , "Identify Device command" (wor ds 60-61 and 100- 103[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 17 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.4 Recor ding and in terface technology 2.5 Physical characteristics 2.6 Seek time Seek measurements are taken with nomin al power at 25°C ambient temperat ure. All times are measured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in the table below are de fined as follows[...]

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    18 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.7 Start/stop times 2.8 Power specifications The drive r eceives DC power (+5V o r +12V) thr ough a native SA T A power conn ector . Refer to Figure 1 on page 28 on page 28. 2.8.1 Power consumption Power requirements for the drives are listed in Table 4 on page 19 and T[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 19 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications * Dur ing per iods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and power to operational levels. †5W IDLE with DIPLM Enabled 2.8.2 Conducted noise Input noise ripple is measured at the host system [...]

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    20 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.8.4 Power -management modes The drive provides programmable power management to provide greater energy ef ficiency . In most system s, you can control power manage ment through the system s etup program. The drive features the following power - management modes: • Ac[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 21 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.9 Environmental specifications 2.9.1 Ambient temperature Ambient temperat ure is defined as the temp eratur e of the env ironmen t immediately sur roundin g the drive. Act ual drive case temper ature should not exce ed 69°C (156°F) w ithin the op erating ambie nt cond[...]

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    22 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 500, 320, 250 and 160GB models The non-oper ating shock level that the drive can e xperience with out incurring physical dama ge or degradat ion in pe rformance when subsequ ently put into operation is 350 Gs based on a non- repetiti ve half-sine shock pulse of 2-ms dura[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 23 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.11 Electromagnetic immunity When properly installed in a representative host syste m, the drive ope rates without errors or degrada tion in performance when subjected to the radio fr equency (RF) en viron ments defined in the f ollowing Table 7 : 2.12 Reliability The pr[...]

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    24 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.13 W arranty T o determine the wa rranty for a spe cific drive, use a w eb browser to access the following web page: support.seagate.com/custom er/warranty_validation.jsp From this page, click on the “V erify Y o ur W arranty” link. Y ou will be asked to provide th[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 25 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications This equipment is design ed to pr ovide r easonable pr otecti on against such in terference in a residential installation. However , there is no guarantee that in terference will not oc cur in a particular installati on. If this equipment does cause interference to r adio[...]

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    26 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.16 Corrosive envir o nment Seagate electronic drive componen ts pass acceler ated corrosion testing equivalen t to 10 years expo sure to light industrial environments conta ining sulfurous gases, chlori ne and nitric oxide , classes G an d H per ASTM B845. However , th[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 27 3.0 Configuring and Mounting the Drive This section contains the spec if ications and instructions for co nfiguring and mounting the drive. 3.1 Handling and static-d ischarge precautions After unpack ing, and befor e instal lation, the drive ma y be exposed to potential handling an d electrostatic discharge [...]

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    28 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com Figure 1 Attaching SA T A cabling Each cable is key ed to ensure correct orientation. Barracuda drives s upport latching SA T A c onnectors. 3.4 Drive mounting Y o u can moun t the drive in an y orientation u sing four sc re ws in the side-mounting hole s o[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 29 www.seagate.com Configuring and Mounting the Drive Figure 2 Mounting dimensio ns (1000 and 750GB models) Recommended case temperature measurement location[...]

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    30 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com Figure 3 Mounting dimensions (500, 320, 250 and 160GB models) Recommended case temperature measurement location[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 31 4.0 Serial A T A (SA T A) Interface These drives u se the industry-stan dard Serial A T A interface that supports FIS data tran sfers. It supports A T A prog rammed input/outpu t (PIO) modes 0 to 4; multiwor d DMA modes 0 to 2, and Ultra DMA modes 0 to 6. For detailed informa tion about the Ser ial A T A int[...]

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    32 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Serial A T A (SA T A) Interface www.seagate.com Notes 1. All pins are in a single row , with a 1.27 mm (0.050”) pitch. 2. The comments on the mat ing sequence apply to the case of back plane blindmate conn ector only . In this ca se, the matin g sequences are: • the gr ound pi ns P4 and P12. • the pre[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 33 www.seagate.com Serial A T A (SA T A) Interface Device Reset 08 H Download Microcode 92 H Execute Device Diagno stics 90 H Flush Cache E7 H Flush Cache Ext ended EA H Format T rack 50 H Identify Device EC H Idle E3 H Idle Immediate E1 H Initialize Device Parameters 91 H Read Buff er E4 H Read DMA C8 H Read D[...]

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    34 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Serial A T A (SA T A) Interface www.seagate.com Set Max Address F9 H Note: Individual Set Max Address commands ar e identifi ed by the value placed in the S et Max Features register as defined to t he right. Address: Password: Lock: Unlock: Free ze Lock: 00 H 01 H 02 H 03 H 04 H Set Max Address Extended 37 [...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 35 www.seagate.com Serial A T A (SA T A) Interface 4.3.1 Identify Device command The Identify Device command ( command code EC H ) transfers informa tion about th e drive to t he host followin g power up. The d ata is or ganized as a sing le 512-byte block of data, whose contents a re shown in on page 32. All r[...]

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    36 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Serial A T A (SA T A) Interface www.seagate.com 56 Number of curren t logical sector s per logical trac k xxxx H 57–58 Current capa city in sector s xxxx H 59 Number of sectors tran sferred during a Read Multiple or Write Multiple command xxxx H 60–61 T otal number of user -addressable LBA sector s avai[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 37 www.seagate.com Serial A T A (SA T A) Interface 87 Command sets enable extension 4000 H 88 Ultra DMA support an d current mode (see note following this table) xx 3F H 89 Security er ase time 0000 H 90 Enhanced security eras e time 0000 H 92 Mas ter password r evision code FFFE H 93 H ard w a re re se t v al [...]

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    38 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Serial A T A (SA T A) Interface www.seagate.com Bit Wor d 84 0 SMART error login is supporte d. 1 SMART self-test is supported. 2 Media serial number is su pported. 3 Media Card Pass Thr ough Comma nd featur e set is supp orted. 4 Str eaming featur e set is s upported. 5 GPL feature set is support ed. 6 WRI[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 39 www.seagate.com Serial A T A (SA T A) Interface 4.3.2 Set Features command This command cont rols t he implementation of various featur es th at the drive suppor ts. When the drive r eceiv es this command, it se ts BSY , checks the conte nts of the Feat ures r egister , clears BSY and ge nerates an inte rrup[...]

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    40 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Serial A T A (SA T A) Interface www.seagate.com 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T . commands S.M.A.R.T . provides near -te rm failure pr ediction for disk drives. When S.M.A.R.T . is enabled, the dr ive monitors predetermined drive attributes th at are susceptible to degradation over time. If s elf-monitoring de termines tha[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 41 www.seagate.com Serial A T A (SA T A) Interface[...]

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    42 Barracuda SATA Product M anual, Rev. B Serial A T A (SA T A) Interface www.seagate.com[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev . B 43 A ACA 24 acceleration 22 acoustics 22 Active 20 Active mode 20 Agency certification 24 altitude 21 Ambient temperature 21 ambient temper ature 17, 18 Annualized Failure Rate 24 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 23 areal density 17 ATA commands 32 Australia/New Zealan d Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 24 Australian Commu[...]

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    44 Barracuda SATA Product Ma nual, Rev. B Idle 20, 33 Idle Immediate 33 Idle mode 18, 20 Information Technology Equipment (ITE) 24 Initialize Devi ce Parameters 33 Input noise ripple 19 input voltage 18 interface 17, 31 interference 24 internal data-trans fer rate OD 17 is 17 ISO document 7779 22 ITE 24 K KCC 24 Korean Communicatio ns Commission 24[...]

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    Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev . B 45 S.M.A.R.T. Save Attribute Values 34 S.M.A.R.T. Writ e Log sector 34 Safety certification 24 SATA 31 screws 21 sectors 16 Sectors per track 16 Security Disable Password 33 Security Erase Prepare 33 Security Erase Unit 33 Security Freeze 33 Security Set Password 33 Security Unlock 33 See “S.M.A.R.T. command[...]

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