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Product Manual Video 3.5 HDD 100633414 Rev. H May 2013 ST2000VM003 ST1000VM002[...]
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© 2013 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Publication number: 100633414, Rev. H May 2013 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 one o[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H Contents Seagate Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.1 About the[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H Figures Figure 1 Typical Current Profiles (5V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Figure 2 Typical Current Profiles (12V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Figure 3 Attaching SATA ca[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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 Warranty S[...]
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8 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 9 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate ® Video 3.5 HDD (formerly Pipeline HD ® )SATA model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 5900 RPM spindle speed • High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates w[...]
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10 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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 work[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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 specificati[...]
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12 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H Drive Specifications www.seagate.com * One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity m ay vary depending on operating environment and formatting. * *During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 13 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.2 Formatted capacity * One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion 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 bl[...]
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14 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.5 Physical characteristics Maximum height 2TB model 26.1mm / 1.028 in 1TB model 20.20mm / 0.795 in Maximum width 101.6mm / 4.0 in (± 0.010 in) Maximum length 147.00mm / 5.78 in Typical weight 2TB model 535g / 1.18 lb 1TB model 415g / 0.915 lb Cache buffer 64MB (65,536kb[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 15 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. (Refer to Figure 3 ). 2.8.1 Power consumption Power requirements for the drives are listed in Table 2 on page 15 . Typical power measurements are based on an average o[...]
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16 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H Drive Specifications www.seagate.com Figure 1 Typical Current Profiles (5V) Figure 2 Typical Current Profiles (12V)[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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 of [...]
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18 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.9 Environmental specifications 2.9.1 Drive case temperature This section provides the temperature, humidity, shock, and vibration specifications. Ambient temperature is defined as the temperature of the environment immediately surrounding the drive. Above 1000ft. (305 me[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 19 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.9.5 Shock All shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input shock applied at the drive mounting screws. Shock may be applied in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.9.5.1 Operating shock These drives comply with the performance levels specified in this d[...]
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20 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.10 Acoustics Table 4 Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor acoustics Model 2.1 bels (typ) 2.3 bels (max) 2.3 bels (typ) 2.4 bels (max) 1.9 bels (typ) 2.1 bels (max) 2.2 bels (typ) 2.3 bels (max) Drive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound power levels ([...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 21 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.12 Reliability - Annualized Failure Rate The product will achieve an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.55% when operated in an environment of ambient air temperatures of 25°C. Operation at temperatures outside the specifications shown in Section 2.9 may increase the pr[...]
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22 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H Drive Specifications www.seagate.com Australian C-Tick (N176) If these models have the C-Tick marking, they comply with the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 and meet the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirements of the Australian Communication Authority (ACA). 2.14.3 FCC verificat[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 23 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications "O" indicates the hazardous and toxic substance content of the part (at the homogenous material level) is lower than the threshold defined by the China RoHS MCV Standard. "X" indicates the hazardous and toxic substance content of the part (at the homoge[...]
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24 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H Drive Specifications www.seagate.com[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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) haza[...]
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26 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com Figure 3 Attaching SATA cabling Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. Video 3.5 HDD 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 screws[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 27 www.seagate.com Configuring and Mounting the Drive Figure 4 Mounting dimensions (2TB model) Recommended case temperature measurement location[...]
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28 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com Figure 5 Mounting dimensions (1TB model) Recommended case temperature measurement location[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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 th[...]
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30 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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 and[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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 EC[...]
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32 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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- tures[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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 on page 30. All reserved bits or words s[...]
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34 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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 53 [...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 35 www.seagate.com Serial ATA Interface 81 Minor version number 0028 H 82 Command sets supported 346B H 83 Command sets supported 7D69 H 84 Command sets support extension (see note following this table) 4133 H See Word 108-111 note. (4133 H = 1000000100101 binary) 85 Command sets enabled 34 xx H 86 Command sets [...]
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36 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H Serial ATA Interface www.seagate.com Note Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not supported. Note See the bit descriptions below for words 63, 84, and 88 of the Identify Drive data. Table 9 Bit Descriptions Description (if bit is set to 1) Bit Word 63 0 Multiword DMA mode 0 is supported. 1 Multiw[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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 regi[...]
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38 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 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 likely, [...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 39 Index A ACA 22 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 22 Australian Communication Authority (ACA) 22 Australian C-Tick 22 Average latency 14 Average [...]
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40 Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H L Latency 14 LBA mode 13 Length 14 Logical geometry 13 M Master/slave 10 Mounting 26 Mounting screws 19 Mounting the drive 25 N Noise 17 Nominal power 14 Nonoperating shock 19 Nonoperating vibration 19 O Operating 15 Operating shock 19 Operating vibration 19 P Physical characteristics 14 Point-to-point 10 , 2[...]
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Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. H 41 Standby mode 15 , 17 Standby timer 17 Standby to Ready 14 Start/stop times 14 Static-discharge 25 Subassembly 22 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 9 [...]
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