Page 2 - Revision history; © 2010, Seagate Technology LLC All rights reserved.
Revision history © 2010, Seagate Technology LLC All rights reserved. Publication number: 100545983, Rev. B October 2010 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Momentus and SeaTools are either trad...
Page 3 - Contents
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B i Contents 1.0 Seagate Technology support services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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ii Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 6.4 Drive locking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 6.5 Data bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 5 - iii; List of Figures
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B iii List of Figures Figure 1. Typical 5V/12V startup and operation current profile for 1TB models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Figure 2. Typical 5V/12V startup and operation current profile for 500GB models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1...
Page 7 - Seagate Technology support services; SEAGATE ONLINE SUPPORT and SERVICES
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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 Globa...
Page 8 - Introduction; Serial ATA model drives:
2 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 2.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Constellation.2 TM Serial ATA model drives: . Note. Previous generations of Seagate Self-Encrypting Drive models were called Fu...
Page 9 - • Authenticated firmware download; About the Serial ATA interface; ers or other configuration options.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 3 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Self-Encrypting Drive models have the following additional features: • Automatic data encryption/decryption• Controlled access• Random number generator• Drive locking• 16 independent data bands• Cryptographic erase of use...
Page 10 - Drive specifications; the drive; Specification summary tables; Model Number
4 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 3.0 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 d...
Page 11 - Drive specifications summary for 1TB, 500 and 250 GB models
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 5 Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 1TB, 500 and 250 GB models Drive specification ST91000640NS ST91000641NS ST91000642NS ST9500620NS ST9500621NS ST9500622NS ST9250610NS ST9250611NS ST9250612NS Formatted GB (512 bytes/sector)* 1000 500 250 Gu...
Page 13 - Formatted capacity; Default logical geometry; LBA mode; Recording and interface technology; Interface
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 7 3.2 Formatted capacity Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector ST91000640NS ST91000641NS ST91000642NS 1000 GB 1,953,525,168 512 ST9500620NS ST9500621NS ST9500622NS 500 GB 976,773,168 ST9250610NS ST9250611NS ST9250612NS 250 GB ...
Page 14 - Read
8 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 3.5 Physical characteristics Maximum height 14.8 mm (0.583 in) Maximum width 70.0 mm (2.76 in) Maximum length 100.5 mm (3.957 in) Max weight 1TB models 500GB models 250GB models 200 g (0.441 lb) 183 g (0.403 lb) 179 g (0.395 lb) Cache buffer 64 Mby...
Page 15 - Power specifications; Power consumption
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 9 3.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. See Figure 5 on page 26. 3.8.1 Power consumption Power requirements for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. Typical power measuremen...
Page 16 - DC power requirementss; Parameter
10 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Table 2: 1000GB drive (Standard & SED model) DC power requirementss Parameter Voltage +5 V +12 V Power +5 V +12 V Power Regulation (watts) (w atts) Average Idle Current 0.27 0.16 3.27 0.27 0.16 3.31 Advanced Idle Current Idle1 0.22...
Page 17 - DC power requirements
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 11 500GB drive (Standard & SED model) DC power requirements * 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 . Parameter Voltage...
Page 19 - Typical current profiles
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 13 3.8.1.1 Typical current profiles Figure 1. Typical 5V/12V startup and operation current profile for 1TB models Figure 2. Typical 5V/12V startup and operation current profile for 500GB models
Page 21 - Power modes
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 15 3.8.4 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-manageme...
Page 22 - PowerChoice is invoked using one of two methods; Power Condition Name; Reduced electronics
16 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Each power condition has a set of current, saved and default settings. Default settings are not modifiable. Default and saved settings persist across power-on resets. The current settings do not persist across power-on resets. At the time of manuf...
Page 23 - Environmental limits; Temperature; The maximum allowable drive case temperature is 60°C.; Relative humidity; The values below assume that no condensation on the drive occurs.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 17 3.9 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)...
Page 25 - Acoustics; Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor acoustics; Active
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 19 3.9.5 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. 3.9.5.1 Operating vibration The maximum vibration...
Page 26 - • 250 average motor start/stop cycles per year.; Radio frequency environments; Test
20 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 3.11 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: 3.12 Rel...
Page 27 - Agency certification; Safety certification; Constellation.2 Serial ATA; FCC verification
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 21 3.13 Agency certification 3.13.1 Safety certification The drives are recognized in accordance with UL 60950-1 as tested by UL, CSA 60950-1 as tested by CSA, and EN60950-1 as tested by TUV. The security features of Self-Encrypting Drive models are ...
Page 28 - Radio and television interference.; • Reorient the receiving antenna.; Environmental protection; Reference documents; Self-Encrypting Drives Reference Manual; Product warranty
22 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Radio and television interference. This equipment generates and uses radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in strict accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions, may cause interference to radio and television reception. This equ...
Page 30 - China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive; Corrosive environment; 表示该部件(于同类物品程度上)所含的危险和有毒物质低于中国
24 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 3.14.4 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive This product has an Environmental Protection Use Period (EPUP) of 20 years. The following table contains information mandated by China's "Marking Requirements for Control of Pol...
Page 31 - Configuring and mounting the drive; Handling and static-discharge precautions; • Handle the drive by its edges or frame
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 25 4.0 Configuring and mounting the drive This section contains the specifications and instructions for configuring and mounting the drive. 4.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions After unpacking, and before installation, the drive may be expos...
Page 32 - Figure 5. Attaching SATA cabling
26 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 4.2 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 dri...
Page 33 - Drive mounting; • Allow a minimum clearance of
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 27 4.4 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 6 for drive mounting dimensions. Follow these important mounting precau-tions when m...
Page 34 - Cooling
28 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 4.5 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 3.9.1, "Temperature." The rack, cabinet, or drawer e...
Page 35 - About FIPS; Purpose; Figure 8. Example of FIPS tamper evidence labels.
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 29 5.0 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 Mod...
Page 36 - About self-encrypting drives; • Security Protocol Out; Data encryption; Admin SP
30 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 6.0 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 (...
Page 37 - Drive locking
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 31 6.2.2 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 bands...
Page 38 - The download file must be signed and authenticated.; Power requirements
32 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 6.6 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 recoverabl...
Page 39 - Hot-Plug compatibility; The drive motor must come to a complete stop
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 33 7.0 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 i...
Page 40 - Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions; • the ground pins P4 and P12.; Serial ATA connector pin definitions
34 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 7.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 5 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 app...
Page 41 - See; Supported ATA commands; Command name
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 35 7.3 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 43 - Identify Device command; The Identify Device command (command code EC; xxxx
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 37 7.3.1 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 6 on p...
Page 44 - Word
38 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 60–61 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available(see Section 3.2 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 0...
Page 45 - Bit
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 39 Note. See the bit descriptions below for words 63, 84, and 88 of the Identify Drive data. 108–111 The mandatory value of the world wide name (WWN) for the drive. NOTE: This field is valid if word 84, bit 8 is set to 1 indicating 64-bit WWN support...
Page 49 - Index
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 43 Index A ACA 21 acceleration 19 acoustics 19 Active 15 Active mode 15 Admin SP 30 AES-128 data encryption 30 Agency certification 21 altitude 18 ambient 17 ambient temperature 8 , 9 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 20 areal density 2 , 7 ATA commands ...
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