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Product Manual Constellation CS Serial ATA ® 100695091 Rev. A July 2012 Standard Models Seagate Instant Secure Erase Models ST3000NC002 ST3000NC000 ST2000NC001 ST2000NC000 ST1000NC001 ST1000NC000[...]

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Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the SATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.0 Dr[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 5.0 SATA Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.1 Hot-Plug compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.2 SATA device p[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A Figures Figure 1 Typical 3TB model 5V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Figure 2 Typical 3TB model 12V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Figure 3 Typical 2TB model 12V - 6Gb/s startup and operation[...]

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Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A v For information regarding online support and services, visit http://www.seagate.com/about/contact-us/technical-support/ Available services include: • Presales & Technical support • Global Support Services telephone numbers & business hours • Authorized Service Centers For informatio[...]

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Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1 www.seagate.com 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Constellation ® CS Serial ATA model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 7200 RPM spindle speed. • PowerChoice™ for selectable powe[...]

2 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 1.1 About the SATA interface The Serial ATA (SATA) interface provides several advantages over the traditional (parallel) ATA interface. The primary advantages include: • Easy installation and configuration with true plug-and-play connectivity. It is not necessary to set any jump[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3 www.seagate.com 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 s[...]

4 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com * 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. * * During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. [...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 5 www.seagate.com 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1, where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above . See Section 5.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional [...]

6 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 2.6 Seek time Seek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times are measured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in the table below are defined as follows: • Track-to-track seek time is an average of all possible single-track seeks in[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 7 www.seagate.com * During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase ac oustic and power to operational levels. Table 2: 3TB Drive DC power requirements 3.0Gb mode 6.0Gb mode Voltage +5V +12V +5V +12V Regulation ±5% ±5% ±[...]

8 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 2.8.1.1 Typical current profiles 3TB model current profile Figure 1 Typical 3TB model 5V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile Figure 2 Typical 3TB model 12V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 9 www.seagate.com 2TB model current profile Typical 2TB model 5V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profiles Figure 3 Typical 2TB model 12V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profiles[...]

10 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 1TB model current profile Typical 1TB model 5V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profiles Figure 4 Typical 1TB model 12V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profiles[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 11 www.seagate.com 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 +12 volt line or an equivalent 15-ohm resistive load on the +5 volt line. • Using 12-volt power, the drive is expected to operate with a maximu[...]

12 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 2.8.4 Power-management modes The drive provides programmable power management to provide greater energy efficiency. In most systems, you can control power management through the system setup program. The drive features the following power- management modes: • Active mode The dr[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 13 www.seagate.com 2.8.4.1 Extended Power Conditions - PowerChoice TM Utilizing the load/unload architecture a programmable power management interface is provided to tailor systems for reduced power consumption and performance requirements. The table below lists the supported power conditions avail[...]

14 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com PowerChoice Manufacture Default Power Condition Timer Values Default power condition timer values have been established to assure product reliability and data integrity. A minimum timer value threshold of two minutes ensures the appropriate amount of background drive maintenance [...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 15 www.seagate.com 2.9 Environmental limits Temperature and humidity values experienced by the drive must be such that condensation does not occur on any drive part. Altitude and atmospheric pressure specifications are referenced to a standard day at 58.7°F (14.8°C). Maximum wet bulb temperature [...]

16 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 2.9.3 Altitude 2.9.4 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. 2.9.4.1 Operating shock These drives comply with the performance levels specified i[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 17 www.seagate.com 2.10 Acoustics Drive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound power levels (no pure tones). All measurements are consistent with ISO document 7779. Sound power measurements are taken under essentially free-field conditions over a reflecting plane. For all tests[...]

18 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 2.13 Reliability 2.13.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) The product shall achieve an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 1.095% (MTBF of 800 thousand hours) when operated nominal power and typical case temperatures of 40°C. Operation at temperatu[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 19 www.seagate.com Korean RRL If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo, they comply with paragraph 1 of Article 11 of the Electromagnetic Compatibility control Regulation and meet the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirements of the Radio Research Labora[...]

20 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 2.15 Environmental protection Seagate designs its products to meet environmental protection requirements worldwide, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances. 2.15.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive The European Union Restric[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 21 www.seagate.com specifications will be repaired or replaced, at Seagate’s option and at no charge to the customer, if returned by customer at customer’s expense to Seagate’s designated facility in accordance with Seagate’s warranty procedure. Seagate will pay for transporting the repair [...]

22 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 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 elec[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 23 www.seagate.com 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-mounting holes. Refer to Figure 7 for drive mounting dimensions. Follow these important mounting precautions when mounting the drive: • Allow [...]

24 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 4.0 About Seagate Instant Secure Erase drives Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) offer encryption and security services for the protection of stored data, commonly known as “protection of data at rest”. 4.1 Data encryption Encrypting drives use one inline encryption engine for eac[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 25 www.seagate.com 5.0 SATA 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 SATA inte[...]

26 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 5.2 SATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 5 summarizes the signals on the SATA interface and power connectors. Notes 1. All pins are in a single row, with a 1.27 mm (0.050”) pitch. 2. The comments on the mating sequence apply to the case of backplane blindmate connec[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 27 www.seagate.com 5.3 Supported ATA commands The following table lists SATA standard commands that the drive supports. For a detailed description of the ATA commands, refer to the Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 3.0 ( http://www .sata-io.org ). See “S.M.A.R.T. commands[...]

28 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 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 Features register as defined to the right. Address: Password: Lock: Unlock: Freeze Lock: 00[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 29 www.seagate.com 5.3.1 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 512-byte block of data, whose contents are shown on page 27. All reserved bits or words should be[...]

30 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 59 Number of sectors transferred during a Read Multiple or Write Multiple command xxxx H 60–61 Total 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[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 31 www.seagate.com 93 Hardware reset value 0000 H 95–99 ATA-reserved 0000 H 100–103 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available (see Section 2.2 for related information). These words are required for drives that support the 48-bit addressing feature. Maximum value: 0000FFFFFFFFFFFFh.[...]

32 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com Bit Word 84 0 SMART error login is supported. 1 SMART self-test is supported. 2 Media serial number is supported. 3 Media Card Pass Through Command feature set is supported. 4 Streaming feature set is supported. 5 GPL feature set is supported. 6 WRITE DMA FUA EXT and WRITE MULTIP[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 33 www.seagate.com 5.3.2 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 register do[...]

34 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A www.seagate.com 5.3.3 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, S.M.A.R[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 35 A ACA 19 acoustics 17 Active 12 Active mode 12 actuator arm 6 AES-256 24 Agency certification 18 altitude 16 ambient 15 Ambient temperature 15 ambient temperature 6 Annualized Failure Rate 18 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 18 areal density 5 ATA commands 27 Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CI[...]

36 Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A logical geometry 5 M maintenance 18 master/slave 2 maximum start current 7 mounting 23 mounting screws 16 mounting the drive 22 N noise 11 nominal power 6 non-operating temperature 15 Nonoperating shock 16 Nonoperating vibration 16 Nonrecoverable read errors 18 NOP 27 O Operating power 6 Operati[...]

Constellation CS Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 37 Standby Immediate 28 Standby mode 6, 12 standby timer 12 Standby to Ready 6 Start/stop times 6 static-discharge 22 subassembly 19 Surge immunity 17 T temperature 6, 15 non-operating 15 timer 12 timers 12 track density 5 Track-to-track 6 Track-to-track seek time 6 U UL60950-1 18 V Vibration 16 vo[...]

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