SEAGATE ST31000424SS - Manual

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 1 1.0 Seagate Technology support services SEAGATE ONLINE SUPPORT and SERVICES For information regarding products and services, visit http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/ Available services include: Presales & Technical support Glob...

2 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 2.0 Scope This manual describes Seagate Technology ® LLC, Constellation ® ES Series SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) disc drives. Constellation ES drives support the SAS Protocol specifications to the extent described in this manual. The SAS Interface M...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 3 3.0 Applicable standards and reference documentation The drives documented in this manual have been developed as system peripherals to the highest standards of design and construction. The drives depends on host equipment to provide adequate power...

4 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 3.1.2 Electromagnetic compliance Seagate uses an independent laboratory to confirm compliance with the directives/standards for CE Marking and C-Tick Marking. The drive was tested in a representative system for typical applications. The selected s...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 5 3.1.3 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) The European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive, restricts the presence of chemi-cal substances, including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Hexavalent Chromium, PBB and...

6 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 4.0 General description Constellation ES drives provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems including engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. The Serial Attached SCSI inter-face ...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 7 4.1 Standard features Constellation ES drives have the following standard features: • Perpendicular recording technology• 1.5 / 3 / 6 Gb Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface • Integrated dual port SAS controller supporting the SCSI protocol• Suppo...

8 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 4.3 Performance • Programmable multi-segmentable cache buffer • 600MB/s maximum instantaneous data transfers.• 7200 RPM spindle. Average latency = 4.16ms• Background processing of queue• Supports start and stop commands (spindle stops spinning)• A...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 9 4.7 Factory-installed options You may order the following items which are incorporated at the manufacturing facility during production or packaged before shipping. Some of the options available are (not an exhaustive list of possible options): • O...

10 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 5.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Con-stellation ES drives. 5.1 Internal drive characteristics ST32000444SS ST31000424SS ST3500414SS ST3200044...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 11 5.2.2 Format command execution time for 512-byte sectors (minutes) ST32000444SSST32000445SSST32000446SS ST31000424SSST31000425SSST31000426SS ST3500414SSST3500415SSST3500416SS Maximum (with verify) 627 345 173 Maximum (without verify) 314 173 86 N...

12 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 5.4 Prefetch/multi-segmented cache control The drive provides a prefetch (read look-ahead) and multi-segmented cache control algorithms that in many cases can enhance system performance. Cache refers to the drive buffer storage space when it is u...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 13 5.5.1 Caching write data Write caching is a write operation by the drive that makes use of a drive buffer storage area where the data to be written to the medium is stored while the drive performs the Write command. If read caching is enabled (RC...

14 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 6.0 Reliability specifications The following reliability specifications assume correct host and drive operational interface, including all inter-face timings, power supply voltages, environmental requirements and drive mounting constraints. 6.1 E...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 15 6.1.3 Seek errors A seek error is defined as a failure of the drive to position the heads to the addressed track. After detecting an initial seek error, the drive automatically performs an error recovery process. If the error recovery process fai...

16 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E Caution. The drive motor must come to a complete stop prior to changing the plane of operation. This time is required to insure data integrity. 6.2.4 S.M.A.R.T. S.M.A.R.T. is an acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. This ...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 17 S.M.A.R.T. measures error rates. All errors for each monitored attribute are recorded. A counter keeps track of the number of errors for the current interval. This counter is referred to as the Failure Counter. Error rate is the number of errors ...

18 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 6.2.6 Drive Self Test (DST) Drive Self Test (DST) is a technology designed to recognize drive fault conditions that qualify the drive as a failed unit. DST validates the functionality of the drive at a system level. There are two test coverage op...

20 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 6.2.7 Product warranty Beginning on the date of shipment to the customer and continuing for the period specified in your purchase contract, Seagate warrants that each product (including components and subassemblies) that fails to function properl...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 21 7.0 Physical/electrical specifications This section provides information relating to the physical and electrical characteristics of the drive. 7.1 PowerChoice TM power management Drives using the load/unload architecture provide programmable powe...

22 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 7.1.1 PowerChoice reporting methods PowerChoice TM provides these reporting methods for tracking purposes: Request Sense command reports • Current power condition• Method of entry Note. Processing the Request Sense command does not impact the dri...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 23 Table 2: 2000GB drive (Standard & SED model) DC power requirements Notes 3.0Gb mode 6.0Gb mode (Amps) (Amps) (Amps) (Amps) Voltage +5V +12V [4] +5V +12V [4] Regulation [5] ±5% ±5% [2] ±5% ±5% [2] Avg idle current DCX [1] [7] 0.41 0.43 0.42 0....

26 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E [5] See +12V current profile in Figure 3. [6] This condition occurs after OOB and Speed Negotiation completes but before the drive has received the Notify Spinup primitive. [7] See paragraph 7.3.1, "Conducted noise immunity." Specified vo...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 27 7.3.3 Current profiles The +12V (top) and +5V (bottom) current profiles for the Constellation ES drives are shown below. Figure 1. 2TB model current profiles Note: All times and currents are typical. See Table 2 for maximum current requirements.

30 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 7.4 Power dissipation 2TB models in 3Gb operation Please refer to Table 2 for power dissipation numbers. To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 4). Locate the typical I/O ra...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 31 2TB models in 6Gb operation Please refer to Table 2 for power dissipation numbers. To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 5.). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in you...

32 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 1TB models in 3Gb operation Please refer to Table 2 for power dissipation numbers. To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 6). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in your...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 33 1TB models in 6Gb operation Please refer to Table 2 for power dissipation numbers. To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 7.). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in you...

34 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 500GB models in 3Gb operation Please refer to Table 2 for power dissipation numbers. To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 8). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in yo...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 35 500GB models in 6Gb operation Please refer to Table 2 for power dissipation numbers. To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure 9.). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in y...

36 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 7.5 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°F (14.8°C...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 37 7.5.3 Effective altitude (sea level) a. Operating –200 to +10,000 feet (–61 to +3,048 meters) b. Non-operating –200 to +40,000 feet (–61 to +12,210 meters) 7.5.4 Shock and vibration Shock and vibration limits specified in this document are measur...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 39 7.5.4.2 Vibration a. Operating—normal The drive as installed for normal operation, shall comply with the complete specified performance while subjected to continuous vibration not exceeding 5 - 22 Hz 0.25 Gs, limited displacement 22 - 350 Hz 0.5 ...

40 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E should never be exposed to condensing water on the surface of the printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) or exposed to an ambient relative humidity greater than 95%. Materials used in cabinet fabrication, such as vulca-nized rubber, that can outga...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 41 7.6 Mechanical specifications The following nominal dimensions are exclusive of the decorative front panel accessory. However, dimensions of the front panel are shown in figure below. Refer to Figure 12 for detailed mounting configuration dimensi...

42 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 8.0 About FIPS The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2, FIPS PUB 140-2, is a U.S. govern-ment computer security standard used to accredit cryptographic modules. It is titled “Security Requirements for Cryptographic Mo...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 43 9.0 About self-encrypting drives Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) offer encryption and security services for the protection of stored data, com-monly known as “protection of data at rest.” These drives are compliant with the Trusted Computing Group ...

44 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 9.2.2 Locking SP The Locking SP controls read/write access to the media and the cryptographic erase feature. Access to the Locking SP is available using the BandMasterX or EraseMaster passwords. Since the drive owner can define up to 16 data band...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 45 9.6 Cryptographic erase A significant feature of SEDs is the ability to perform a cryptographic erase. This involves the host telling the drive to change the data encryption key for a particular band. Once changed, the data is no longer recoverab...

46 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 10.0 Defect and error management Seagate continues to use innovative technologies to manage defects and errors. These technologies are designed to increase data integrity, perform drive self-maintenance, and validate proper drive operation. SCSI ...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 47 The drive firmware error recovery algorithms consist of 12 levels for read recoveries and five levels for write. Each level may consist of multiple steps, where a step is defined as a recovery function involving a single re-read or re-write attem...

48 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 10.4 Background Media Scan Background Media Scan (BMS) is a self-initiated media scan. BMS is defined in the T10 document SPC-4 available from the T10 committee. BMS performs sequential reads across the entire pack of the media while the drive is...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 49 10.7 Idle Read After Write Idle Read After Write (IRAW) utilizes idle time to verify the integrity of recently written data. During idle periods, no active system requests, the drive reads recently written data from the media and compares it to v...

50 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 11.0 Installation Constellation ES disc drive installation is a plug-and-play process. There are no jumpers, switches, or termina-tors on the drive. SAS drives are designed to be used in a host system that provides a SAS-compatible backplane with...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 51 11.2 Cooling Cabinet cooling must be designed by the customer so that the ambient temperature immediately surrounding the drive will not exceed temperature conditions specified in Section 7.5.1, "Temperature." The rack, cabinet, or drawer...

52 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 11.3 Drive mounting Mount the drive using the bottom or side mounting holes. If you mount the drive using the bottom holes, ensure that you do not physically distort the drive by attempting to mount it on a stiff, non-flat surface. The allowable ...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 53 12.0 Interface requirements This section partially describes the interface requirements as implemented on Constellation ES drives. Addi-tional information is provided in the SAS Interface Manual (part number 100293071). 12.1 SAS features This sec...

54 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 12.2 Dual port support Constellation ES SAS drives have two independent ports. These ports may be connected in the same or differ-ent SCSI domains. Each drive port has a unique SAS address. The two ports have the capability of independent port cl...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 55 12.3 SCSI commands supported Table 8 lists the SCSI commands supported by Constellation ES drives. Table 8: Supported commands Command name Command code Supported Change Definition 40h N Compare 39h N Copy 18h N Copy and Verify 3Ah N Format Unit ...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 59 12.3.1 Inquiry data Table 9 lists the Inquiry command data that the drive should return to the initiator per the format given in the SAS Interface Manual . Table 9: Constellation ES inquiry data Bytes Data (hex) 0-15 00 00 xx** 12 8B 00 30 02 53 ...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 61 Table 10: Mode Sense data changeable and default values for 2TB drives MODE DATA HEADER: 01 92 00 10 00 00 00 08 BLOCK DESCRIPTOR: e8 e0 88 b0 00 00 02 00 MODE PAGES: DEF 81 0a c0 0b ff 00 00 00 05 00 ff ff CHG 81 0a ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff 00 ff ff...

62 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E Table 11: Mode Sense data changeable and default values for 1TB drives MODE DATA HEADER: 01 92 00 10 00 00 00 08 BLOCK DESCRIPTOR: 74 70 6d b0 00 00 02 00 MODE PAGES: DEF 81 0a c0 0b ff 00 00 00 05 00 ff ff CHG 81 0a ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff 00 ff ff...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 63 Table 12: Mode Sense data changeable and default values for 500GB drives MODE DATA HEADER: 01 92 00 10 00 00 00 08 BLOCK DESCRIPTOR: 3a 38 60 30 00 00 02 00 MODE PAGES: DEF 81 0a c0 0b ff 00 00 00 05 00 ff ff CHG 81 0a ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff 00 ff ...

64 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 12.4 Miscellaneous operating features and conditions Table 13 lists various features and conditions. A “Y” in the support column indicates the feature or condition is supported. An “N” in the support column indicates the feature or condition is n...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 65 12.4.1 SAS physical interface Figure 16 shows the location of the SAS device connector J1. Figures 17 and 18 provide the dimensions of the SAS connector. Details of the physical, electrical, and logical characteristics are provided within this se...

66 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E Figure 17. SAS device plug dimensions C OF DATUM B L 5.08 1.27 (6X) 1.27 (14X) 15.875 0.35MIN 15.875 33.43 0.05 B 4.90 0.08 0.84 0.05 (22X) 0.15 B P15 P1 S7 S1 SEE Detail1 0.30 0.05 (4X) 4.00 0.08 0.15 D 0.30 0.05 (2X) 41.13 0.15 B B C C A A 0.20...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 67 Figure 18. SAS device plug dimensions (detail) 6.10 Detail A 0.30 0.05 x 45 (5X) 0.40 0.05 X 45 (3X) CORING ALLOWED IN THIS AREA. 2.25 0.05 4.85 0.05 0.10 B E S14 S8 4.40 0.15 SEE Detail 2 3.90 0.15 SECTION A - A SECTION C - C A 0.35 0.05 45 R0.3...

68 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 12.4.2 Physical characteristics This section defines physical interface connector. 12.4.3 Connector requirements Contact your preferred connector manufacturer for mating part information. Part numbers for SAS connectors will be provided in a futu...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 69 12.4.6 SAS transmitters and receivers A typical SAS differential copper transmitter and receiver pair is shown in Figure 19. The receiver is AC cou-pling to eliminate ground shift noise. Figure 19. SAS transmitters and receivers 12.4.7 Power The ...

70 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E The Ready LED Out signal is designed to pull down the cathode of an LED. The anode is attached to the proper +3.3 volt supply through an appropriate current limiting resistor. The LED and the current limiting resis-tor are external to the drive. ...

Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 71 Index Numerics 12 volt pins 69 5 volt pins 69 6 Gbps 70 A abort task set function 53 AC coupling 69 AC power requirements 22 ACA active status 64 ACA active, faulted initiator status 64 acoustics 39 active LED Out signal 69 actuator 8 assembly de...

72 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E description 6 DFE 70 dimensions 41 disc rotation speed 10 drive 39 drive characteristics 10 Drive Locking 44 drive mounting 41 , 52 drive select 68 dual port support 54 E electrical description of connector 68 signal characteristics 69 specificat...

74 Constellation ES Series SAS Product Manual, Rev. E R radio interference regulations 3 Random number generator 44 RCD bit 12 read error rates 14 , 46 read/write data heads 10 receivers 69 recommended mounting 38 Recoverable Errors 14 recovered media data 14 reference documents 5 relative humidity ...

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