Page 2 - Document Revision History; Revision
© 2013 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Publication number: 100724268, Rev. B May 2013 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Seagate Terascale HDD and SeaTools are either trademarks o...
Page 3 - Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B; Contents
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B i Contents Seagate® Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 4 - Figures; Figure 1
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B ii Figures Figure 1 Typical 4TB model 5V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Figure 2 Typical 4TB model 12V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Figure 3 Loca...
Page 6 - Introduction; About the SATA interface; Model Number; Note
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 2 www.seagate.com 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following SeagateSeagate ® Terascale HDD model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 5900 RPM spindle speed. • Po...
Page 7 - Drive Specifications; the drive; Specification summary tables; The specifications listed in; Standard models
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 3 www.seagate.com 2.0 Drive Specifications Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power. Forconvenience, the phrases the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to indicate the f...
Page 8 - Formatted capacity; Model
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 4 www.seagate.com * 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 environment and formatting. ** During periods of drive idle, some offline acti...
Page 9 - LBA mode; where; Recording and interface technology
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 5 www.seagate.com 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1, where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above . See Section 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (...
Page 10 - Seek time; Read; Average; TB models
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 6 www.seagate.com 2.5 Seek time Seek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times are measured using drivediagnostics. The specifications in the table below are defined as follows: • Track-to-track seek time is an avera...
Page 11 - • Spinup power; Typical DC - average of average operating currents; • Average Idle Current; a random track location.; DC power requirements
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 7 www.seagate.com * 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. • Spinup power Spinup power is measured from the time of power-on to ...
Page 12 - Typical current profiles
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 8 www.seagate.com 2.7.1.1 Typical current profiles 4TB model current profile Figure 1 Typical 4TB model 5V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile Figure 2 Typical 4TB model 12V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile
Page 14 - Extended Power Conditions - PowerChoice; PowerChoice is invoked using one of two methods
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 10 www.seagate.com 2.7.4.1 Extended Power Conditions - PowerChoice TM Utilizing the load/unload architecture a programmable power management interface is provided to tailor systems for reducedpower consumption and performance requirements. The table below...
Page 15 - PowerChoice Manufacture Default Power Condition Timer Values
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 11 www.seagate.com PowerChoice Manufacture Default Power Condition Timer Values Default power condition timer values have been established to assure product reliability and data integrity. A minimum timervalue threshold of two minutes ensures the appropri...
Page 16 - Environmental limits; Humidity; Relative humidity; Operating
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 12 www.seagate.com 2.8 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°...
Page 17 - Altitude; Operating shock; Vibration; Operating vibration; * Rotary Random Operating Vibration; Non-operating vibration
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 13 www.seagate.com 2.8.3 Altitude 2.8.4 Shock All shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input shock applied at the drive mounting screws.Shock may be applied in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.8.4.1 Operating shock These drives com...
Page 18 - Acoustics; Electromagnetic immunity; Table 4; Performance Seek; Test
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 14 www.seagate.com 2.9 Acoustics Drive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound power levels (no pure tones). All measurements areconsistent with ISO document 7779. Sound power measurements are taken under essentially free-field conditi...
Page 19 - Reliability; Operations at nominal voltages.
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 15 www.seagate.com 2.12 Reliability 2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) The product shall achieve an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 1.1% (MTBF of 800 thousand hours) when operated atnominal power and typical case t...
Page 20 - Agency certification; Korean RRL; FCC verification; Radio and television interference.; How to Identify and Resolve Radio-
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 16 www.seagate.com 2.13 Agency certification 2.13.1 Safety certification These products are certified to meet the requirements of UL60950-1, CSA60950-1 and EN60950 and so marked as to thecertify agency. 2.13.2 Electromagnetic compatibility Hard drives tha...
Page 21 - Environmental protection
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 17 www.seagate.com 2.14 Environmental protection Seagate designs its products to meet environmental protection requirements worldwide, including regulations restrictingcertain chemical substances. 2.14.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances ...
Page 22 - Product warranty; ). The drive serial number is required to; Shipping
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 18 www.seagate.com 2.16 Product warranty Beginning on the date of shipment to the customer and continuing for the period specified in your purchase contract, Seagatewarrants that each product (including components and subassemblies) that fails to function...
Page 23 - Configuring and Mounting the Drive; Handling and static-discharge precautions; Table 5; Caution
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 19 www.seagate.com 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 m...
Page 24 - Drive mounting; Figure 5
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 20 www.seagate.com 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. Refer to Figure 5 for drive mounting dimensions. Follow these important mounting pre...
Page 25 - Hot-Plug compatibility
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 21 www.seagate.com 4.0 SATA Interface These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA (SATA) interface that supports FIS data transfers. It supports ATAprogrammed input/output (PIO) modes 0 to 4; multiword DMA modes 0 to 2, and Ultra DMA modes 0 to 6. F...
Page 26 - SATA device plug connector pin definitions; Notes; • All used voltage pins (V
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 22 www.seagate.com 4.2 SATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 5 summarizes the signals on the SATA 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...
Page 27 - Supported ATA commands; Command name
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 23 www.seagate.com 4.3 Supported ATA commands The following table lists SATA standard commands that the drive supports.For a detailed description of the ATA commands, refer to the Serial ATA International Organization:Serial ATA Revision 3.0 ( http://www....
Page 29 - Identify Device command; The Identify Device command (command code EC
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 25 www.seagate.com 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 on p...
Page 30 - Bit
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 26 www.seagate.com 68 Minimum PIO cycle time with IORDY flow control (120 nsec) 0078 H 69–74 ATA-reserved 0000 H 75 Queue depth 001F H 76 SATA capabilities xxxx H 77 Reserved for future SATA definition xxxx H 78 SATA features supported xxxx H 79 SATA feat...
Page 32 - Set Features command
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 28 www.seagate.com 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...
Page 33 - Draft; Code in features register
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 29 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 monitorspredetermined drive attributes that are susceptible to degradation over time. If self-monitoring d...
Page 34 - temperature 12; Index
Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 30 A ACA 16acoustics 14Active 9Active mode 9actuator arm 6Agency certification 16altitude 13ambient 12Ambient temperature 12ambient temperature 6Annualized Failure Rate 16Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 15areal density 5ATA commands 23Australia/New Zealand ...
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