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Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E v List of Figures Figure 1. Typical +5V only startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Pipeline HD Mini SATA Product Manual, Rev. E vii 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 • Authorize...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Pipeline HD ® Mini Series SATA model drives: • ST9500323CS• ST9320328CS• ST9250311CS• ST91603110CS These drives provide the f...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 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. E 5 2.2 Formatted capacity Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector ST9500323CS 500 Gbytes 976,773,168 512 ST9320328CS 320 Gbytes 625,142,448 ST9250311CS 250 Gbytes 488,397,168 ST91603110CS 160 Gbytes 312,581,808 *One Gbyte equal...

6 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 2.4 Physical organization Drive model Read/write heads Number of discs ST9500323CS 4 2 ST9320328CS 3 ST9250311CS 2 1 ST91603110CS 2.5 Recording and interface technology Interface Serial ATA (SATA) Recording method Perpendicular Recording density ...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 7 Note. These drives are designed to consistently meet the seek times represented in this manual. Physical seeks, regardless of mode (such as track-to-track and average), are expected to meet the noted val-ues. However, due to the manner in which t...

8 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E During Standby mode, the drive accepts commands, but the drive is not spinning, and the servo and read/write electronics are in power-down model Table 3: DC power Power dissipation +5V input average (25° C) ST9500323CS and ST9320328CS ST9250311CS...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 9 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. Using 5-volt power, the drive is expected to operate with a maximum of 100 mV peak-to-peak square...

10 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E • Idle and Standby timers Each time the drive performs an Active function (read, write or seek), the standby timer is reinitialized and begins counting down from its specified delay times to zero. If the standby timer reaches zero before any dri...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 11 2.10.5 Shock All shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input shock applied at the drive mount-ing screws. Shock may be applied in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.10.5.1 Operating shock These drives comply with the perform...

12 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E *During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and power to operational levels . Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs) Seagate follows the ECMA-74 standard...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 13 2.13 Reliability Measurement type Specification Nonrecoverable read errors 1 per 10 14 bits read, max. Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.55% (nominal power, 25°C ambient temperature) Also, refer to Section 2.13.1. Contact start-stop cycles 50,000 ...

14 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Korean RRL If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo, they comply with paragraph 1 of Arti-cle 11 of the Electromagnetic Compatibility control Regulation and meet the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requi...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 15 2.15.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) The European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive, restricts the presence of chemical substances, including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Hexavalent Chromium, PBB a...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 17 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...

18 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E For installations which require cables, you can connect the drive as illustrated in Figure 2. Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive using four screws in the...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 19 Measurements shown in Figure 3 are in inches. Figure 3. Mounting dimensions—top, side and end view

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 21 4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that supports FIS data transfers. It supports ATA pro-grammed input/output (PIO) modes 0–4; multiword DMA modes 0–2, and Ultra DMA modes 0–6. The drive a...

22 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 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 to the case of backplane blindmate connector only. In this case, the mating sequences are: • the ground pins P4 and P12.• the pre...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 23 Device Configuration Identify B1h/C2h Device Configuration Set B1h/C3h Download Microcode 92h Execute Device Diagnostics 90h Flush Cache E7h Flush Cache Extended EAh Identify Device ECh Initialize Device Parameters 91h Read Buffer E4h Read DMA C...

24 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E S.M.A.R.T. Enable Operations B0h/D8h S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Auto Offline B0h/DBh S.M.A.R.T. Enable One Attribute Modification B0h/E0h S.M.A.R.T. Execute Offline B0h/D4h S.M.A.R.T. Read Attribute Thresholds B0h/D1h S.M.A.R.T. Read Data B0h/D0h...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 25 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. E 27 92 Master password revision code FFFE H 93 Hardware reset value (see description following this table) xxxx H 94 Auto acoustic management setting xxxx H 95–99 ATA-reserved 0000 H 100–103 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available(see...

28 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 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 interru...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 29 Note. At power-on, or after a hardware or software reset, the default values of the features are as indicated above. 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 driv...

Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 31 Index A ACA 14 acoustics 4 , 11 Active mode 9 Address 23 AFR 13 Agency certification 13 Altitude 10 Altitude, nonoperating 4 Altitude, operating 4 ambient temperature 6 Annualized Failure Rate 13 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 4 Areal density 3 ,...

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