Page 2 - Document Revision History; Revision; Updated voltage tolerance specifications.
© 2012 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Publication number: 100686584, Rev. D January 2012 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Barracuda and SeaTools are either trademarks or regist...
Page 3 - Contents
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Contents Seagate Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 5 - Figures; Figure 1
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Figures Figure 1 Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Figure 2 Mounting dimensions (3-disk: 3TB, 2TB; 2-disk: 1.5TB models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2...
Page 7 - Seagate Technology Support Services
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 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 Servic...
Page 9 - About the SATA interface
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 9 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following SeagateBarracuda ® model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 7200 RPM spindle speed. • High instantaneous (burst) data-trans...
Page 11 - Drive Specifications; the drive; Specification summary tables; The specifications listed in
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 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...
Page 12 - Drive Specifications
12 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Drive Specifications www.seagate.com *All specifications above are based on native configurations. ** 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 ...
Page 14 - Formatted capacity; where; Model
14 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Drive Specifications www.seagate.com * All specifications above are based on native configurations. ** 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...
Page 15 - Default logical geometry; Recording and interface technology; SATA
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 15 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.3 Default logical geometry • Cylinders : 16,383 • Read/write heads : 16 • Sectors per track : 63 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1, where n i...
Page 16 - Physical characteristics; Maximum height; Average; Note
16 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.5 Physical characteristics 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 fo...
Page 17 - Power specifications; Table 3; Avg 5V typ amps
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 17 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.7 Start/stop times Time-to-ready may be longer than normal if the drive power is removed without going through normal OS powerdown procedures. 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a ...
Page 19 - Power modes
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 19 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.8.3 Voltage tolerance Voltage tolerance (including noise): • 5V ±5% • 12V +10% / -7.5% 2.8.4 Power-management modes The drive provides programmable power management to provide greater energy efficiency. In most systems, ...
Page 20 - Environmental specifications; Section
20 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 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...
Page 21 - Operating vibration; Seek
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 21 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 1TB, 750GB, 500GB, 320GB and 250GB models The non-operating 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 ...
Page 22 - Electromagnetic immunity; Table 8; Agency certification; Test
22 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.10.1 Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs) Seagate follows the ECMA-74 standards for measurement and identification of PDTs. An exception to this process is the use of the absolute threshold of hearing. Seagate uses t...
Page 23 - Korean RRL; • Family name: Barracuda; Radio and television interference.; • Reorient the receiving antenna.; Environmental protection
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 23 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 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...
Page 24 - Corrosive environment
24 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.14.2 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive This product has an Environmental Protection Use Period (EPUP) of 20 years. The following table contains information mandated by China's "Marking Requir...
Page 25 - Configuring and Mounting the Drive; Handling and static-discharge precautions; Caution; • Handle the drive by its edges or frame; Configuring the drive; Table 9
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 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 potent...
Page 26 - Configuring and Mounting the Drive; Attaching SATA cabling; Drive mounting; Figure 2
26 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com Figure 1 Attaching SATA cabling Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. Barracuda drives support latching SATA connectors. 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive in any orientation using four s...
Page 29 - Segment; Signal
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 29 4.0 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 informatio...
Page 30 - SATA Interface; • All used voltage pins (V; Supported ATA commands; Power
30 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D SATA Interface www.seagate.com Notes 1. All pins are in a single row, with a 1.27 mm (0.050 in) 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...
Page 31 - Command name
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 31 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 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 H Idle E3 H Idle Immediate E1 H Initialize Device Parameters 91 H Read Buffer E4 H Read DMA ...
Page 33 - The Identify Device command (command code EC; Word
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 33 www.seagate.com SATA 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 512-byte block of data, whose contents are sh...
Page 35 - Bit
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 35 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 92 Master password revision code FFFE H 93 Hardware reset value xxxx H 94 Automatic acoustic management 8080 H 95–99 ATA-reserved 0000 H 100–103 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available (see Section 2.2 for related...
Page 38 - Draft; Code in features register
38 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D SATA 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-mon...
Page 39 - Index
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 39 A ACA 23acceleration 21acoustics 21Active 19Active mode 19Agency certification 22altitude 20Ambient temperature 20ambient temperature 16, 17Annualized Failure Rate 22areal density 15ATA commands 30Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 23Australian Comm...
Page 40 - quick reference 11
40 Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D mounting screws 20mounting the drive 25 N noise 18nominal power 16Nonoperating shock 20Nonoperating vibration 21 O operating 17, 18Operating power 17Operating shock 20Operating vibration 21 P Physical characteristics 16point-to-point 9, 25Power consumption 17...
Page 44 - Seagate Technology LLC
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