Page 2 - Revision history; Revision
Revision history Copyright © 2010 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.Publication number: 100560196, Rev. E December 2010Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Pipeline H...
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Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E i
Page 5 - Contents
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E iii Contents 1.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 7 - List of Figures
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E v List of Figures Figure 1. Typical +5V only startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
Page 9 - vii; Seagate Technology Support Services
Pipeline HD Mini SATA Product Manual, Rev. E vii For information regarding online support and services, visit http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/ Available services include: • Presales & Technical support • Global Support Services telephone numbers & business hours • Authorize...
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Page 11 - Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 1; Introduction; Mini Series SATA model drives:; About the Serial ATA interface; jumpers or other configuration options.
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 1 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Pipeline HD ® Mini Series SATA model drives: • ST9500323CS• ST9320328CS• ST9250311CS• ST91603110CS These drives provide the f...
Page 13 - Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 3; the drive; Specification summary table; Drive specifications
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 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 Pipeline ...
Page 15 - Formatted capacity; Model; Default logical geometry; Cylinders; LBA mode
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 5 2.2 Formatted capacity Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector ST9500323CS 500 Gbytes 976,773,168 512 ST9320328CS 320 Gbytes 625,142,448 ST9250311CS 250 Gbytes 488,397,168 ST91603110CS 160 Gbytes 312,581,808 *One Gbyte equal...
Page 16 - Physical organization; Drive model; Recording and interface technology; Seek time; Typical seek times; Read
6 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 2.4 Physical organization Drive model Read/write heads Number of discs ST9500323CS 4 2 ST9320328CS 3 ST9250311CS 2 1 ST91603110CS 2.5 Recording and interface technology Interface Serial ATA (SATA) Recording method Perpendicular Recording density ...
Page 17 - Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 7; Time to ready; Power specifications; Power requirements for the drives are listed in the table on page; Average latency
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 7 Note. These drives are designed to consistently meet the seek times represented in this manual. Physical seeks, regardless of mode (such as track-to-track and average), are expected to meet the noted val-ues. However, due to the manner in which t...
Page 18 - DC power; Power dissipation; Seek; Typical current profile; Figure 1. Typical +5V only startup and operation current profile
8 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E During Standby mode, the drive accepts commands, but the drive is not spinning, and the servo and read/write electronics are in power-down model Table 3: DC power Power dissipation +5V input average (25° C) ST9500323CS and ST9320328CS ST9250311CS...
Page 19 - Power modes
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 9 2.9.2 Conducted noise Input noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply across an equivalent 15-ohm resistive load on the +5 volt line. Using 5-volt power, the drive is expected to operate with a maximum of 100 mV peak-to-peak square...
Page 20 - Environmental specifications; Actual drive base plate temperature should not exceed
10 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E • Idle and Standby timers Each time the drive performs an Active function (read, write or seek), the standby timer is reinitialized and begins counting down from its specified delay times to zero. If the standby timer reaches zero before any dri...
Page 21 - Acoustics; C). Emission levels are reported as the total A-weighted sound; CE seek
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 11 2.10.5 Shock All shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input shock applied at the drive mount-ing screws. Shock may be applied in the X, Y or Z axis. 2.10.5.1 Operating shock These drives comply with the perform...
Page 22 - Electromagnetic immunity; Radio frequency environments; Test
12 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E *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 . Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs) Seagate follows the ECMA-74 standard...
Page 23 - Reliability; Measurement type; Nonrecoverable read errors; Agency certification; Safety certification
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 13 2.13 Reliability Measurement type Specification Nonrecoverable read errors 1 per 10 14 bits read, max. Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.55% (nominal power, 25°C ambient temperature) Also, refer to Section 2.13.1. Contact start-stop cycles 50,000 ...
Page 24 - Korean RRL; ence to radio and television reception.; Radio and television interference.; How to; Environmental protection
14 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E Korean RRL If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo, they comply with paragraph 1 of Arti-cle 11 of the Electromagnetic Compatibility control Regulation and meet the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requi...
Page 25 - European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS); Corrosive environment
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 15 2.15.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) The European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive, restricts the presence of chemical substances, including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Hexavalent Chromium, PBB a...
Page 27 - Configuring and mounting the drive; Handling and static-discharge precautions
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 17 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 - Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling; Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation.; Drive mounting; Top cover stiffness/deflection; Operating with no performance degradation, emitted noise,
18 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E For installations which require cables, you can connect the drive as illustrated in Figure 2. Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive using four screws in the...
Page 29 - Figure 3. Mounting dimensions—top, side and end view
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 19 Measurements shown in Figure 3 are in inches. Figure 3. Mounting dimensions—top, side and end view
Page 31 - Hot-Plug compatibility; Serial ATA connector pin definitions; Segment; Key and spacing separate signal and power segments
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 21 4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that supports FIS data transfers. It supports ATA pro-grammed input/output (PIO) modes 0–4; multiword DMA modes 0–2, and Ultra DMA modes 0–6. The drive a...
Page 32 - Supported ATA commands; mands” on page
22 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 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 to the case of backplane blindmate connector only. In this case, the mating sequences are: • the ground pins P4 and P12.• the pre...
Page 33 - Command name
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 23 Device Configuration Identify B1h/C2h Device Configuration Set B1h/C3h Download Microcode 92h Execute Device Diagnostics 90h Flush Cache E7h Flush Cache Extended EAh Identify Device ECh Initialize Device Parameters 91h Read Buffer E4h Read DMA C...
Page 34 - ATA-standard security commands
24 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E S.M.A.R.T. Enable Operations B0h/D8h S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Auto Offline B0h/DBh S.M.A.R.T. Enable One Attribute Modification B0h/E0h S.M.A.R.T. Execute Offline B0h/D4h S.M.A.R.T. Read Attribute Thresholds B0h/D1h S.M.A.R.T. Read Data B0h/D0h...
Page 35 - Identify Device command; The Identify Device command (command code EC; Word
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 25 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 the table ...
Page 37 - xxxx; Bit
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 27 92 Master password revision code FFFE H 93 Hardware reset value (see description following this table) xxxx H 94 Auto acoustic management setting xxxx H 95–99 ATA-reserved 0000 H 100–103 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available(see...
Page 38 - Set Features command; Set Features command values
28 Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 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 interru...
Page 39 - Disable write cache; Code in features register
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 29 Note. At power-on, or after a hardware or software reset, the default values of the features are as indicated above. 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 driv...
Page 41 - Index
Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 31 Index A ACA 14 acoustics 4 , 11 Active mode 9 Address 23 AFR 13 Agency certification 13 Altitude 10 Altitude, nonoperating 4 Altitude, operating 4 ambient temperature 6 Annualized Failure Rate 13 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 4 Areal density 3 ,...
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