Page 2 - Revision history; Revision
Revision history Copyright © 2008-2009 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.Publication number: 100529369, Rev. B, February 2009Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Barr...
Page 3 - Contents
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B i Contents 1.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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ii Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B
Page 5 - iii; List of Figures
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B iii List of Figures Figure 1. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 7 - Introduction; Barracuda
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda ® 7200.12 Serial ATA model drives: These drives provide the following key features:• 7,200 RPM spindle speed.• High...
Page 8 - About the Serial ATA interface; ers or other configuration options.
2 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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...
Page 9 - Drive specifications; the drive
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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...
Page 10 - Drive specifications summary
4 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 1000 and 750 Gbyte models Drive specification ST31000528AS ST3750528AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 1000 Gbytes 750 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 1,953,525,168 1,465,149,168 Heads 4 3 Discs 2 Bytes ...
Page 12 - for 500 Gbyte models
6 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Table 2: Drive specifications summary for 500 Gbyte models Drive specification ST3500418AS and ST3500410AS ST3320418AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 500 Gbytes 320 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 976.773,168 625,142,448 Heads 2 Discs 1 Bytes p...
Page 14 - for 250 Gbyte models
8 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Table 3: Drive specifications summary for 250 Gbyte models Drive specification ST3250318AS ST3160318AS Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 250 Gbytes 160 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 488,397,168 312,581,808 Heads 1 Discs 1 Bytes per sector 512 De...
Page 16 - Formatted capacity; Default logical geometry; LBA mode
10 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.1 Formatted capacity *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. 2.1.1 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks...
Page 18 - Seek time; Read; Average
12 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.5 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 al...
Page 19 - Power specifications; Avg 5V typ amps
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 13 2.7 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. See Figure 2 on page 22. 2.7.1 Power consumption Power requirements for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. Typical power measure...
Page 21 - Environmental specifications
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 15 2.8 Environmental specifications 2.8.1 Ambient temperature Ambient temperature is defined as the temperature of the environment immediately surrounding the drive. Actual drive case temperature should not exceed 69°C (156°F) within the operating ...
Page 23 - Acoustics; Electromagnetic immunity; Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor acoustics; Seek; Radio frequency environments; Test
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 17 2.9 Acoustics Drive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound power levels (no pure tones). All mea-surements are consistent with ISO document 7779. Sound power measurements are taken under essentially free-field conditions ove...
Page 24 - Reliability; C. Operation at temperatures outside the specifica-; Agency certification; Safety certification; Nonrecoverable read errors
18 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.11 Reliability 2.11.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) The product shall achieve an Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.32% (MTBF of 0.75 million hours) when oper-ated in an environment of ambient air temperat...
Page 25 - . This booklet is available from the Super-
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 19 Korean RRL If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo, they comply with paragraph 1 of Article 11 of the Electromagnetic Compatibility control Regulation and meet the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requir...
Page 26 - Environmental protection; China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive; Corrosive environment; 中国限制危险物品的指令
20 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.13 Environmental protection Seagate designs its products to meet environmental protection requirements worldwide, including regulations restricting certain chemical substances. 2.13.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) D...
Page 27 - Configuring and mounting the drive; Handling and static-discharge precautions; • Handle the drive by its edges or frame
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 21 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...
Page 28 - Configuring the drive; Figure 1. Serial ATA connectors; Serial ATA cables and connectors; Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling
22 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 d...
Page 29 - Drive mounting
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 23 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 3 for drive mounting dimensions. Follow these important mounting precau-tions when...
Page 31 - Hot-Plug compatibility
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 25 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...
Page 32 - Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions; installed in a blind-mate backplane configuration.; Serial ATA connector pin definitions
26 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 8 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 a...
Page 33 - Supported ATA commands; Command name
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 27 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.sa...
Page 35 - Identify Device command; The Identify Device command (command code EC; xxxx
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 29 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 9 on...
Page 36 - Word
30 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 60–61 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available(see Section 2.1 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...
Page 37 - Bit
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 31 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. 104–107 ATA-reserved 0000 H 108–111 The mandatory ...
Page 41 - Seagate Technology support services; Internet; For information regarding Seagate products and services, visit; mySeagate; Global Customer Support; Presales Support
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 e-mail for your questions. Presales Support: [email protected] ...
Page 42 - Customer Service Operations; Warranty Service; See; USA/Canada/Latin America support services; Direct dial; and Mexico; Europe, the Middle East and Africa Support Services
36 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 ...
Page 43 - Index
Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 37 Index A ACA 19 acceleration 16 acoustics 17 Active 14 Active mode 14 AFR 18 Agency certification 18 altitude 15 Ambient temperature 15 ambient temperature 12 , 13 Annualized Failure Rate 18 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 18 areal density 1 , 11 A...
Page 48 - Seagate Technology LLC
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