Page 3 - Contents
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C i Contents 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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ii Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C
Page 5 - iii; List of Figures
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C iii List of Figures Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Page 7 - Introduction; Barracuda
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda ® 7200.9 Serial ATA model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • 7,200 RPM spindle speed. • High...
Page 8 - About the Serial ATA interface; • Scalability to higher performance levels.
2 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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. • Th...
Page 9 - Drive specifications; Specification summary tables
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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; for 160 Gbyte models
4 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 160 Gbyte models Drive specification ST3160811AS ST3160211AS Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 160 Heads 2 Discs 1 Guaranteed sectors 312,581,808 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Defaul...
Page 12 - for 120 Gbyte models
6 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C Table 2: Drive specifications summary for 120 Gbyte models Drive specification ST3120811AS ST3120211AS Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 120 Heads 2 Discs 1 Guaranteed sectors 234,441,648 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Defaul...
Page 14 - for 80 and 40 Gbyte models
8 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C Table 3: Drive specifications summary for 80 and 40 Gbyte models Drive specification ST380811AS ST380211AS ST340211AS Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 80 40 Heads 1 Discs 1 Guaranteed sectors 156,301,488 78,165,360 Bytes per sector 512 Default...
Page 16 - Formatted capacity; Default logical geometry; LBA mode
10 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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 ...
Page 18 - Seek time; Read
12 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.6 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 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 13 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. See Figure 4 on page 24. 2.8.1 Power consumption Power requirements for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. Typical power measurem...
Page 20 - Typical current profiles; Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile; Conducted noise; injected noise at up to 10 MHz.; Voltage tolerance
14 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.8.1.1 Typical current profiles Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile 2.8.2 Conducted noise Input noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply across an...
Page 21 - Power modes
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 15 2.8.4 Power-management modes The drive provides programmable power management to provide greater energy efficiency. In most systems, you can control power management through the system setup program. The drive features the following power-managem...
Page 22 - Environmental specifications
16 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.9 Environmental specifications 2.9.1 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 a...
Page 23 - Acoustics; by the following equation:; Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor acoustics; Seek
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 17 2.9.6 Vibration All vibration specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input vibration applied at the drive mounting screws. Vibration may be applied in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.9.6.1 Operating vibration The maximum vibratio...
Page 24 - Radio frequency environments; Test
18 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.11 Electromagnetic immunity When properly installed in a representative host system, the drive operates without errors or degradation in performance when subjected to the radio frequency (RF) environments defined in the following table: 2.12 Re...
Page 25 - Agency certification; Safety certification; • Certificate number:
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 19 2.13 Agency certification 2.13.1 Safety certification The drives are recognized in accordance with UL 1950 and CSA C22.2 (950) and meet all applicable sections of IEC950 and EN 60950 as tested by TUV North America. 2.13.2 Electromagnetic compatib...
Page 26 - FCC verification; • Reorient the receiving antenna.; Environmental protection; European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
20 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.13.3 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-...
Page 27 - Corrosive environment
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 21 2.15 Corrosive environment Seagate electronic drive components pass accelerated corrosion testing equivalent to 10 years exposure to light industrial environments containing sulfurous gases, chlorine and nitric oxide, classes G and H per ASTM B84...
Page 29 - Configuring and mounting the drive; Handling and static-discharge precautions; • Handle the drive by its edges or frame only.
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 23 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 expo...
Page 30 - Configuring the drive; Figure 3. Serial ATA connectors and jumper options; Serial ATA cables and connectors; Figure 4. Attaching SATA cabling
24 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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 dr...
Page 31 - Drive mounting; Figure 5. Mounting dimensions—top, side and end view
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 25 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 5 for drive mounting dimensions. Follow these important mounting precau-tions when ...
Page 33 - Hot-Plug compatibility
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 27 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 34 - Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions; • the ground pins P4 and P12.; Serial ATA connector pin definitions
28 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 7 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 35 - Supported ATA commands; Command name
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 29 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.T....
Page 37 - Identify Device command; The Identify Device command (command code EC; Word
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 31 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 8 onp...
Page 39 - Bit
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 33 Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not supported Note. See the bit descriptions below for words 63, 88, and 93 of the Identify Drive data. 104–127 ATA-reserved 0000 H 128 Security status 000...
Page 41 - Code in features register
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 35 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 drive moni-tors predetermined drive attributes that are susceptible to degradation over time. If self-monitoring determine...
Page 43 - Seagate Technology support services; Internet; For information regarding Seagate products and services, visit; Seagate Service Centers; Presales Support; Seagate technical support is available to assist you online at
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 37 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] Te...
Page 44 - Customer Service Operations; Warranty Service; USA/Canada/Latin America support services; Direct dial; and Mexico; Europe, the Middle East and Africa Support Services
38 Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 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 w...
Page 45 - Index
Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C 39 Index A ACA 19 acceleration 17 acoustics 17 Active 15 Active mode 15 actuator arm 13 Agency certification 19 altitude 16 Ambient temperature 16 ambient temperature 12 , 13 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 18 areal density 1 , 11 ATA commands 29 Aust...
