SEAGATE ST9250311CS - Manuals

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Pipeline HD ® Mini Series SATA model drives: • ST9250311CS• ST91603110CS These drives provide the following key features:• 5,...

2 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA 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 i...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA 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 Pipeline ...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 5 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 ...

6 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.4 Physical organization 2.5 Recording and interface technology 2.6 Physical characteristics Drive model Read/write heads Number of discs ST9250311CS 2 1 ST91603110CS 2 1 Interface Serial ATA (SATA) Recording method Perpendicular Recording densi...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 7 2.7 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...

8 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.9 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V) through a native SATA power connector. 2.9.1 Power consumption Power requirements for the drives are listed in the table on page 8. Typical power measurements are based on an average of d...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 9 2.9.1.1 Typical current profile Figure 1. Typical +5V only startup and operation current profile 2.9.2 Conducted noise Input noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply across an equivalent 15-ohm resistive load on the +5 volt line. ...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 11 2.10 Environmental specifications 2.10.1 Base plate temperature Actual drive base plate temperature should not exceed 70°C (158°F). Above 1,000 feet (305 meters), the maximum temperature is derated linearly by 1°C every 1000 feet. 2.10.2 Tempera...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 13 2.11 Acoustics Drive emission of sound is measured consistent with the ECMA-74 and its’ referenced standards. Testing is conducted at room temperature (approximately 25 ° C). Emission levels are reported as the total A-weighted sound power level...

14 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.13 Reliability Measurement type Specification Nonrecoverable read errors 1 per 10 14 bits read, max. Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) <0.55% Load/Unload (U/UL) 25°C, 50% relative humidity 32°C, 80% relative humidity 5°C, 80% relative humidity ...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 15 2.14 Agency certification 2.14.1 Safety certification These products are certified to meet the requirements of UL60950-1, CSA60950-1 and EN60950 and so marked as to the certify agency. 2.14.2 Electromagnetic compatibility Hard drives that displa...

16 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 2.14.3 FCC verification These drives are intended to be contained solely within a personal computer or similar enclosure (not attached as an external device). As such, each drive is considered to be a subassembly even when it is individually mar...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 17 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) T...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 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 exp...

20 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on the Serial ATA interface connects in a point-to-point configuration with the Serial ATA host adapter. There is no master/slave relationship because each drive is considered a master in a point-to-point rel...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 21 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-mounting holes. See Figure 3 for drive mounting dimensions. Follow these important mounting precautions when mount-ing the drive...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 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. The drive al...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 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: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment specification . See “S.M.A.R....

28 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 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 the table ...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 29 59 Number of sectors transferred during a Read Multiple or Write Multiple command xxxx H 60–61 Total number of user-addressable sectorsThis field contains a value that is one greater than the total number of user-addressable sectors. The maximum...

30 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 94 Auto acoustic management setting xxxx 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 f...

32 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 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-r...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 35 5.0 Seagate Technology support 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: [email protected] T...

36 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 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 ...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. A 37 Index A ACA 15 acoustics 4 , 13 Active mode 10 Address 26 AFR 14 Agency certification 15 Altitude 11 Altitude, nonoperating 4 Altitude, operating 4 ambient temperature 7 Annualized Failure Rate 14 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 4 Areal density 3 ...

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