SEAGATE ST3160310CS - Manuals

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Pipeline HD TM Series model drive: These drives provide the following key features:• High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rate...

2 Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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 not...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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 driv...

4 Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 500 Gbyte models Drive specification ST3500422CS ST3500321CS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 500 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 976,773,168 Heads 4 Disks 2 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 D...

8 Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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 the drive in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 9 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 follows:• Track-to-track seek t...

10 Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. See Figure 3 on page 20. 2.8.1 Power consumption Power requirements for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. Typical power measurements...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 11 2.8.1.1 Typical current profiles Figure 1. 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 eq...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 13 2.9 Environmental specifications 2.9.1 Drive case temperature Above 1,000 feet (305 meters), the maximum temperature is derated linearly to 112°F (44°C) at 10,000 feet (3,048 meters). Drive case temperature should be measured at the location indicate...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 15 2.10 Acoustics emissions Drive emission of sound is measured consistent with the ECMA-74 and its referenced standards. Testing is conducted at room temperature (approximately 25 degrees C). Emission levels are reported as the total A-weighted sound p...

16 Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.12 Reliability 2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) The product shall achieve an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.62% when operated in an environment of ambient air temperatures of 25 ° C. Operation at temperatures outside the specifications in S...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 17 Korean RRL If these drives have the Korea Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) logo, they comply with para-graph 1 of Article 11 of the Electromagnetic Compatibility control Regulation and meet the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Frame...

18 Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.14 Environmental protection Seagate 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) Direct...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 19 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 ...

20 Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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 drives...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 21 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 4 for drive mounting dimensions. Follow these important mounting precau-tions when moun...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 23 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 info...

24 Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 6 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 apply ...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 25 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 International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 2.6 (http://www.sata-io...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 27 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 7 on page...

28 Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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 Gbytes). Drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes will have 0FFF...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 29 Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and 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.. 108–111 The mandatory value of the world wide name (WW...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 31 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. ...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 33 5.0 Seagate Technology support services Online services Internet For information regarding Seagate products and services, visit www.seagate.com . Worldwide support is available 24 hours daily by email for your questions. Presales Support: Presales@Se...

34 Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Customer Service Operations Warranty Service Seagate offers worldwide customer support for Seagate products. Seagate distributors, OEMs and other direct customers should contact their Seagate Customer Service Operations (CSO) representative for warra...

Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 35 Index A ACA 17 acceleration 14 acoustics 15 Active 12 Active mode 12 AFR 16 Agency certification 16 altitude 13 ambient temperature 9 , 10 Annualized Failure Rate 16 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 16 areal density 1 , 8 ATA commands 25 Australia/New Z...

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