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DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A v List of Figures Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following DiamondMax ® 21 Serial ATA model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 7,200 RPM spindle speed. • High instantaneous...

2 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface The Serial ATA 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 n...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3 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 dri...

4 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 320 Gbyte models Drive specification STM3320820AS STM3320620AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 320 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 625,142,448 Heads 4 Discs 2 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 6...

6 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A Table 2: Drive specifications summary for 250 Gbyte models Drive specification STM3250824AS STM3250820AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 250 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 488,397,168 Heads 3 Discs 2 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 6...

8 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A Table 3: Drive specifications summary for the 160 Gbyte models Drive specification STM3160815AS STM3160215AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 160 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 312,581,808 Heads 2 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per tra...

10 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A Table 4: Drive specifications summary for the 80 Gbyte model Drive specification ST380215AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 80 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 156,301,488 Heads 1 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default rea...

12 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A Table 5: Drive specifications summary for the 40 Gbyte model Drive specification STM340215AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 40 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 78,165,360 Heads 1 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default rea...

14 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.2 Formatted capacity *One Gbyte equals one billion 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 blocks (se...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 15 2.4 Recording and interface technology 2.5 Physical characteristics Model capacity 320 250 160 80 40 Interface Serial ATA (SATA) Recording method Perpendicular Recording density (kbits/inch max) 781 813 824 Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 145 137.2...

16 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 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 p...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 17 • Operating power and current Operating power is measured using 40 percent random seeks, 40 percent read/write mode (1 write for each 10 reads) and 20 percent drive idle mode. • Idle mode power Idle mode power is measured with the drive up to speed,...

18 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile 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 o...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 19 • Idle mode The buffer remains enabled, and the drive accepts all commands and returns to Active mode any time disc access is necessary. • Standby mode The drive enters Standby mode when the host sends a Standby Immediate command. If the host has se...

20 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.9 Environmental specifications 2.9.1 Ambient temperature Ambient temperature is defined as the temperature of the environment immediately surrounding the drive. Actual drive case temperature should not exceed 69°C (156°F) within the operating ambi...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 21 2.9.5.2 Nonoperating shock The nonoperating shock level that the drive can experience without incurring physical damage or degradation in performance when subsequently put into operation is 350 Gs based on a nonrepetitive half-sine shock pulse of 2 ...

22 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.11 Electromagnetic immunity When properly installed in a representative host system, the drive operates without errors or degradation in performance when subjected to the radio frequency (RF) environments defined in the following table: Table 8: R...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 23 2.12 Reliability 2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) The product shall achieve an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.34% (MTBF of 0.7 million hours) when oper-ated in an environment of ambient air temperatures ...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 25 2.14 Environmental protection Maxtor designs its products to meet environmental protection requirements worldwide, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances. 2.14.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) The Eu...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 27 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...

28 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Serial ATA interface connects point-to-point with the Serial ATA host adapter. There is no master/slave relationship because each drive is considered a master in a point-to-point relationship. If two drive...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 29 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. See Figure 5 for drive mounting dimensions. Follow these important mounting precau-tions when mou...

30 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A Figure 6. Drive dimensions for 40-160 GB models

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 31 4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that supports FIS data transfers. It supports ATA programmed input/output (PIO) modes 0–4; multiword DMA modes 0–2, and Ultra DMA modes 0–6. For detailed inf...

32 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 9 summarizes the signals on the Serial ATA 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 appl...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 33 4.3 Supported ATA commands The following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive supports. For a detailed description of the ATA commands, refer to the Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment specification. See “S.M.A.R.T. co...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 35 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 512-byte block of data, whose contents are shown in Table 10 onpag...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 37 Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not supported 104–127 ATA-reserved 0000 H 128 Security status 0001 H 129–159 Maxtor -reserved xxxx H 160–254 ATA-reserved 0000 H 255 Integrity word xxA5 H Wor...

38 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A Note. See the bit descriptions below for words 63, 88, and 93 of the Identify Drive data. Description (if bit is set to 1) Bit Word 63 0 Multiword DMA mode 0 is supported. 1 Multiword DMA mode 1 is supported. 2 Multiword DMA mode 2 is supported. 8 M...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 39 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 inter-rupt....

40 DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 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 susceptible to degradation over time. If self-monitoring determines t...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 41 5.0 Maxtor support services Before contacting Maxtor Support, use the Hard Disk Information feature in MaxBlast to view the model num-ber and serial number of your drive. These numbers can be used to get help from Maxtor Support, register your drive...

DiamondMax 21 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A 43 Index A ACA 24 acceleration 21 acoustics 21 Active 18 Active mode 18 actuator arm 16 AFR 23 Agency certification 23 altitude 20 Ambient temperature 20 ambient temperature 16 Annualized Failure Rate 23 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 23 areal density 1...