Page 2 - Revision history; © 2012, Seagate Technology LLC; Revision
Revision history © 2012, Seagate Technology LLC All rights reserved. Publication number: 100620418, Rev. H April 2012Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Constellation and SeaTools are either tr...
Page 3 - Contents; PowerChoice
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H i Contents 1.0 Seagate Technology support services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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ii Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 7.4 Power dissipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 7.5 Environmental limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 5 - iii
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H iii 12.4.2 Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 12.4.3 Connector requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 12.4.4 Electri...
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Page 7 - List of Figures
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H v List of Figures Figure 1. 1TB model current profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Figure 2. 500GB model current profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Page 9 - Seagate Technology support services; SEAGATE ONLINE SUPPORT and SERVICES
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 1 1.0 Seagate Technology support services SEAGATE ONLINE SUPPORT and SERVICES For information regarding products and services, visit http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/ Available services include: Presales & Technical support Global Suppo...
Page 10 - Scope; This manual describes Seagate Technology; SAS Interface Manual; Model Number
2 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 2.0 Scope This manual describes Seagate Technology ® LLC, Constellation.2 TM SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) disk drives. Constellation.2 SAS drives support the SAS Protocol specifications to the extent described in this manual. The SAS Interface Manual (part ...
Page 11 - Applicable standards and reference documentation; Standards; Electromagnetic compatibility
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 3 3.0 Applicable standards and reference documentation The drives documented in this manual have been developed as system peripherals to the highest standards of design and construction. The drives depends on host equipment to provide adequate power and env...
Page 14 - Reference documents
6 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 3.2 Reference documents SAS Interface Manual Seagate part number: 100293071 SCSI Commands Reference Manual Seagate part number: 100293068 Self-Encrypting Drives Reference Manual Seagate part number: 100515636 ANSI SAS Documents SFF-8223 2.5” Drive Form Fa...
Page 15 - General description
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 7 4.0 General description Constellation.2 drives provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems including engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. The Serial Attached SCSI inter-face is design...
Page 17 - Sector Size; Programmable drive capacity
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 9 4.3 Performance • Programmable multi-segmentable cache buffer • 600 MB/s maximum instantaneous data transfers.• 7200 RPM spindle. Average latency = 4.16ms• Background processing of queue• Supports start and stop commands (spindle stops spinning)• Adaptive...
Page 18 - Factory-installed options; • The
10 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 4.7 Factory-installed options You may order the following items which are incorporated at the manufacturing facility during production or packaged before shipping. Some of the options available are (not an exhaustive list of possible options):• Other cap...
Page 19 - Performance characteristics; Internal drive characteristics; and; Access time
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 11 5.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Con-stellation.2 drives. 5.1 Internal drive characteristics ST91000640SS ST9500620SS ST91000641SS ST9500621SS ST9100...
Page 21 - Cache operation; Refer to the; Case A; Drive transfers the requested logical blocks to the initiator.; Case B
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 13 5.4 Prefetch/multi-segmented cache control The drive provides a prefetch (read look-ahead) and multi-segmented cache control algorithms that in many cases can enhance system performance. Cache refers to the drive buffer storage space when it is used in c...
Page 23 - Reliability specifications; Error rates; Recoverable Errors
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 15 6.0 Reliability specifications The following reliability specifications assume correct host and drive operational interface, including all inter-face timings, power supply voltages, environmental requirements and drive mounting constraints. 6.1 Error rat...
Page 24 - Seek errors; seeks. Unrecoverable seek errors; Interface errors; Reliability and service; Preventive maintenance; No routine scheduled preventive maintenance is required.; Hot plugging the drive
16 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 6.1.3 Seek errors A seek error is defined as a failure of the drive to position the heads to the addressed track. After detecting an initial seek error, the drive automatically performs an error recovery process. If the error recovery process fails, a se...
Page 26 - Primary Temperature
18 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H S.M.A.R.T. measures error rates. All errors for each monitored attribute are recorded. A counter keeps track of the number of errors for the current interval. This counter is referred to as the Failure Counter. Error rate is the number of errors per oper...
Page 27 - DST failure definition; Recovered errors will not be reported as diagnostic failures.; Implementation
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 19 6.2.6 Drive Self Test (DST) Drive Self Test (DST) is a technology designed to recognize drive fault conditions that qualify the drive as a failed unit. DST validates the functionality of the drive at a system level. There are two test coverage options im...
Page 28 - The Self-Test Results Value field is set to Fh; Abort
20 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 6.2.6.2.3 Short and extended tests DST has two testing options:1. short2. extended These testing options are described in the following two subsections. Each test consists of three segments: an electrical test segment, a servo test segment, and a read/ve...
Page 29 - Product warranty; See Section 1.0 for warranty contact information.; Shipping
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 21 6.2.7 Product warranty See Section 1.0 for warranty contact information. Shipping When transporting or shipping a drive, use only a Seagate-approved container. Keep your original box. Sea-gate approved containers are easily identified by the Seagate Appr...
Page 30 - Physical/electrical specifications; power management; PowerChoice modes; Mode; can be invoked using one of these two methods:
22 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 7.0 Physical/electrical specifications This section provides information relating to the physical and electrical characteristics of the drive. 7.1 PowerChoice TM power management Drives using the load/unload architecture provide programmable power manage...
Page 31 - PowerChoice reporting methods; provides these reporting methods for tracking purposes:; Request Sense command reports; • Specified and accumulated Start/Stops and Load/Unload cycles; AC power requirements
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 23 7.1.1 PowerChoice reporting methods PowerChoice TM provides these reporting methods for tracking purposes: Request Sense command reports • Current power condition• Method of entry Note. Processing the Request Sense command does not impact the drive’s pow...
Page 32 - DC power requirements
24 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H Table 2: 1000GB drive (Standard & SED model) DC power requirements
Page 33 - Notify Spinup primitive.
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 25 Table 3: 500GB drive (Standard & SED model) DC power requirements [1] Measured with average reading DC ammeter. [2] Instantaneous +12V current peaks will exceed these values. [3] Power supply at nominal voltage. N (number of drives tested) = 6, 35 De...
Page 35 - Current profiles; TB model current profiles
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 27 7.3.3 Current profiles The +12V (top) and +5V (bottom) current profiles for the Constellation drives are shown below. Figure 1. 1TB model current profiles
Page 36 - 00GB model current profiles
28 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H Note: All times and currents are typical. See Table 2 and 3 for maximum current requirements. Figure 2. 500GB model current profiles
Page 37 - Power dissipation; TB model drive in 3Gb operation; Please refer to Table 2 for power dissipation numbers.
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 29 7.4 Power dissipation 1TB model drive in 3Gb operation Please refer to Table 2 for power dissipation numbers. To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 5). Locate the typical I/O rate ...
Page 38 - TB model drive in 6Gb operation
30 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 1TB model drive in 6Gb operation Please refer to Table 2 for power dissipation numbers. To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 6.). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in your s...
Page 39 - 00GB model drive in 3Gb operation; Please refer to Table 3 for power dissipation numbers.
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 31 500GB model drive in 3Gb operation Please refer to Table 3 for power dissipation numbers. To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 5). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in your ...
Page 40 - 00GB model drive in 6Gb operation
32 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 500GB model drive in 6Gb operation Please refer to Table 3 for power dissipation numbers. To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 6.). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in your...
Page 41 - Environmental limits; Temperature; Location of the HDA temperature check point; Image is for reference only, may not represent actual drive.; Relative humidity
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 33 7.5 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). Maxim...
Page 42 - b. Operating—abnormal
34 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 7.5.3 Effective altitude (sea level) a. Operating –200 to +10,000 feet (–61 to +3,048 meters) b. Non-operating –200 to +40,000 feet (–61 to +12,210 meters) 7.5.4 Shock and vibration Shock and vibration limits specified in this document are measured direc...
Page 43 - Recommended mounting
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 35 d. Packaged Seagate finished drive bulk packs are designed and tested to meet or exceed applicable ISTA and ASTM standards. Volume finished drives will be shipped from Seagate factories on pallets to minimize freight costs and ease material handling. Sea...
Page 44 - Vibration; Acoustics
36 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 7.5.4.2 Vibration a. Operating—normal The drive as installed for normal operation, shall comply with the complete specified performance while subjected to continuous vibration not exceeding5 - 500 Hz 0.5 Gs Vibration may be applied in the X, Y, or Z axis...
Page 45 - Electromagnetic susceptibility
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 37 chloride, and nitrate contaminants. Sulfur is found to be the most damaging. In addition, electronic components should never be exposed to condensing water on the surface of the printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) or exposed to an ambient relative humi...
Page 46 - Mechanical specifications; Mounting configuration dimensions
38 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 7.6 Mechanical specifications Refer to Figure 9 for detailed mounting configuration dimensions. See Section 11.3, “Drive mounting.” Note. These dimensions conform to the Small Form Factor Standard documented in SFF-8201 and SFF-8223 found at www.sffcommi...
Page 47 - About FIPS; Purpose
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 39 8.0 About FIPS The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 is a U.S. Government Computer Security Standard used to accredit cryptographic modules. It is titled 'Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules (FIPS PUB 140-2)' an...
Page 48 - Figure 10. Example of FIPS tamper evidence labels.
40 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H Figure 10. Example of FIPS tamper evidence labels. Note. Image is for reference only, may not represent actual drive.
Page 49 - About self-encrypting drives; Data encryption; Admin SP
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 41 9.0 About self-encrypting drives Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) offer encryption and security services for the protection of stored data, com-monly known as “protection of data at rest.” These drives are compliant with the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) En...
Page 50 - Default password; Drive locking
42 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 9.2.3 Default password When the drive is shipped from the factory, all passwords are set to the value of MSID. This 32-byte random value can only be read by the host electronically over the interface. After receipt of the drive, it is the responsi-bility...
Page 51 - The download file must be signed and authenticated.; Power requirements
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 43 Three conditions must be met before the drive will allow the download operation:1. The download must be an SED file. A standard (base) drive (non-SED) file will be rejected. 2. The download file must be signed and authenticated. 3. As with a non-SED driv...
Page 52 - Defect and error management; Drive internal defects/errors; Drive error recovery procedures; SCSI Interface Manual
44 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 10.0 Defect and error management Seagate continues to use innovative technologies to manage defects and errors. These technologies are designed to increase data integrity, perform drive self-maintenance, and validate proper drive operation. SCSI defect a...
Page 53 - SAS system errors; SAS Interface; Read and write retry count maximum recovery times
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 45 The drive firmware error recovery algorithms consist of 20 levels for read recoveries and five levels for write. Each level may consist of multiple steps, where a step is defined as a recovery function involving a single re-read or re-write attempt. The ...
Page 55 - Idle Read After Write; Levels of PI; There are 4 types of Protection Information.; Setting and determining the current Type Level
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 47 10.7 Idle Read After Write Idle Read After Write (IRAW) utilizes idle time to verify the integrity of recently written data. During idle periods, no active system requests, the drive reads recently written data from the media and compares it to valid wri...
Page 56 - Identifying a Protection Information drive
48 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 10.8.3 Identifying a Protection Information drive The Standard Inquiry provides a bit to indicate if PI is support by the drive. Vital Product Descriptor (VPD) page 0x86 provides bits to indicate the PI Types supported and which PI fields the drive suppo...
Page 57 - Installation; Power is supplied through the SAS connector.; Physical interface; Drive orientation
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 49 11.0 Installation Constellation.2 disk drive installation is a plug-and-play process. There are no jumpers, switches, or termina-tors on the drive. SAS drives are designed to be used in a host system that provides a SAS-compatible backplane with bays des...
Page 58 - Cooling; Air flow
50 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 11.2 Cooling Cabinet cooling must be designed by the customer so that the ambient temperature immediately surrounding the drive will not exceed temperature conditions specified in Section 7.5.1, "Temperature." The rack, cabinet, or drawer environ...
Page 60 - Interface requirements; SAS features; task management functions; Table 5 lists the SAS task management functions supported.; task management responses; Task name; Task management response codes; Function name
52 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 12.0 Interface requirements This section partially describes the interface requirements as implemented on Constellation.2 drives. Addi-tional information is provided in the SAS Interface Manual (part number 100293071). 12.1 SAS features This section list...
Page 61 - Dual port support; ports at the same time.
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 53 12.2 Dual port support Constellation.2 SAS drives have two independent ports. These ports may be connected in the same or differ-ent SCSI domains. Each drive port has a unique SAS address. The two ports have the capability of independent port clocking (e...
Page 62 - SCSI commands supported; Supported commands; Command name
54 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 12.3 SCSI commands supported Table 7 lists the SCSI commands supported by Constellation.2 drives. Table 7: Supported commands Command name Command code Supported Change Definition 40h N Compare 39h N Copy 18h N Copy and Verify 3Ah N Format Unit [1] [5] 0...
Page 66 - Inquiry data; Constellation.2 inquiry data; Bytes; Mode Sense data
58 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 12.3.1 Inquiry data Table 8 lists the Inquiry command data that the drive should return to the initiator per the format given in the SAS Interface Manual . Table 8: Constellation.2 inquiry data Bytes Data (hex) 0-15 00 00 xx** 12 8B 00 PP 0A 53 45 41 47 ...
Page 68 - CHG 9a 26 01 0f ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00
60 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H Table 9: Mode Sense data changeable and default values for 1TB model drives MODE DATA HEADER: 01 9a 00 10 01 00 00 10 BLOCK DESCRIPTOR: 00 00 00 00 74 70 6d b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 MODE PAGES:DEF 81 0a c0 14 ff 00 00 00 05 00 ff ffCHG 81 0a ff ff 00 0...
Page 70 - Miscellaneous operating features and conditions; Miscellaneous features; Miscellaneous status; Supported
62 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 12.4 Miscellaneous operating features and conditions Table 11 lists various features and conditions. A “Y” in the support column indicates the feature or condition is supported. An “N” in the support column indicates the feature or condition is not suppo...
Page 71 - SAS physical interface
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 63 12.4.1 SAS physical interface Figure 13 shows the location of the SAS device connector J1. Figures 14 and 15 provide the dimensions of the SAS connector. Details of the physical, electrical, and logical characteristics are provided within this section. T...
Page 72 - SAS device plug dimensions; C OF DATUM B
64 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H Figure 14. SAS device plug dimensions C OF DATUM B L 5.08 1.27 (6X) 1.27 (14X) 15.875 0.35MIN 15.875 33.43 0.05 B 4.90 0.08 0.84 0.05 (22X) 0.15 B P15 P1 S7 S1 SEE Detail1 0.30 0.05 (4X) 4.00 0.08 0.15 D 0.30 0.05 (2X) 41.13 0.15 B B C C A A 0.20 B 42.73...
Page 74 - Physical characteristics; This section defines physical interface connector.; Connector requirements; The SAS device connector is illustrated in Figures 14 and 15.; Electrical description
66 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 12.4.2 Physical characteristics This section defines physical interface connector. 12.4.3 Connector requirements Contact your preferred connector manufacturer for mating part information. Part numbers for SAS connectors will be provided in a future revis...
Page 75 - SAS transmitters and receivers; Power; Signal characteristics; Ready LED Out; Normal command activity; Ready LED Meaning bit mode page 19h
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 67 12.4.6 SAS transmitters and receivers A typical SAS differential copper transmitter and receiver pair is shown in Figure 16. The receiver is AC cou-pling to eliminate ground shift noise. Figure 16. SAS transmitters and receivers 12.4.7 Power The drive re...
Page 76 - Differential signals; SAS-2 Specification Compliance; LED drive signal; State; General interface characteristics; Characteristic
68 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H The Ready LED Out signal is designed to pull down the cathode of an LED. The anode is attached to the proper +3.3 volt supply through an appropriate current limiting resistor. The LED and the current limiting resis-tor are external to the drive. See Tabl...
Page 77 - Index; Numerics
Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H 69 Index Numerics 12 volt pins 67 5 volt pins 67 6 Gbps 68 A abort task set function 52 AC coupling 67 AC power requirements 23 ACA active status 62 ACA active, faulted initiator status 62 acoustics 36 active LED Out signal 67 actuator 9 assembly design 7 a...
Page 78 - See
70 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H description 7 DFE 68 dimensions 38 disk rotation speed 11 drive 36 drive characteristics 11 drive failure 16 Drive Locking 42 drive mounting 38 , 51 drive select 66 dual port support 53 E electrical description of connector 66 signal characteristics 67 s...
Page 80 - See also
72 Constellation.2 SAS Product Manual, Rev. H R radio interference regulations 3 Random number generator 42 RCD bit 13 read error rates 15 , 44 read/write data heads 11 receivers 67 recommended mounting 35 Recoverable Errors 15 recovered media data 15 reference documents 6 relative humidity 33 relia...
Page 84 - Seagate Technology LLC
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