Page 2 - Revision history; © 2010, Seagate Technology LLC All rights reserved.
Revision history © 2010, Seagate Technology LLC All rights reserved. Publication number: 100538693, Rev. E September 2010 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Constellation and SeaTools are eith...
Page 3 - Contents; PowerChoice
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E i Contents 1.0 Seagate Technology support services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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ii Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 7.5 Environmental limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287.5.1 Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E iii 12.4.7 Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 12.5 Signal characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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Page 7 - List of Figures
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 1 List of Figures Figure 1. 500GB model current profiles 25 Figure 2. 500GB (3 Gbit) DC current and power vs. input/output operations per second . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Figure 3. 500GB (6 Gbit) DC current and power vs. input/output op...
Page 9 - Seagate Technology support services; SEAGATE ONLINE SUPPORT and SERVICES
Constellation 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 Global Support...
Page 10 - Scope; This manual describes Seagate Technology; Yes
2 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 2.0 Scope This manual describes Seagate Technology ® LLC, Constellation ® SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) disc drives. Constellation drives support the SAS Protocol specifications to the extent described in this manual. The SAS Interface Manual (part number 1002...
Page 11 - Applicable standards and reference documentation; Standards; SAS Interface Manual; Electromagnetic compatibility
Constellation 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 and envir...
Page 12 - Constellation; Taiwanese BSMI
4 Constellation 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 sys-tem rep...
Page 13 - European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS); Reference documents
Constellation 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 PBDE, in ...
Page 14 - General description
6 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 4.0 General description Constellation 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 is designed t...
Page 15 - Standard features; Constellation drives have the following standard features:; Media description
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 7 4.1 Standard features Constellation drives have the following standard features: • Perpendicular recording technology• 1.5 / 3 / 6 Gbit Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface • Integrated dual port SAS controller supporting the SCSI protocol• Support for SAS ...
Page 16 - Sector Size; Programmable drive capacity
8 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 4.3 Performance • Programmable multi-segmentable cache buffer • 600 Mbytes/sec maximum instantaneous data transfers.• 7200 RPM spindle. Average latency = 4.16 msec• Background processing of queue• Supports start and stop commands (spindle stops spinning)• A...
Page 17 - Factory-installed options; • The
Constellation 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): • Other capac...
Page 18 - Performance characteristics; Internal drive characteristics; Access time
10 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 5.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Con-stellation drives. 5.1 Internal drive characteristics ST9500430SS, ST9500431SS & ST9500432SS Drive capacity 50...
Page 20 - Cache operation; Refer to the; Case A; Drive transfers the requested logical blocks to the initiator.; Case B
12 Constellation 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 used in cac...
Page 22 - Reliability specifications; Error rates; Recoverable Errors
14 Constellation 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 Error rates...
Page 23 - Seek errors; seeks. Unrecoverable seek errors; Interface errors; Reliability and service; Preventive maintenance; No routine scheduled preventive maintenance is required.; Hot plugging the drive
Constellation 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 fails, a seek...
Page 25 - Primary Temperature
Constellation 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 per operat...
Page 26 - DST failure definition; Recovered errors will not be reported as diagnostic failures.; Implementation
18 Constellation 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 options impl...
Page 27 - Short and extended tests; DST has two testing options:; Log page entries; The Self-Test Results Value field is set to Fh; Abort
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 19 6.2.6.2.3 Short and extended tests DST has two testing options: 1. short 2. extended These testing options are described in the following two subsections. Each test consists of three segments: an electrical test segment, a servo test segment, and a read/ve...
Page 29 - Physical/electrical specifications; power management; PowerChoice modes; Mode; Reduced electronics; can be invoked using one of these two methods:
Constellation 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 power manageme...
Page 30 - PowerChoice reporting methods; provides these reporting methods for tracking purposes:; Request Sense command reports; • Specified and accumulated Start/Stops and Load/Unload cycles; AC power requirements
22 Constellation 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 drive’s power...
Page 31 - DC power requirements; Notes
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 23 [1] Measured with average reading DC ammeter. [2] Instantaneous +12V current peaks will exceed these values. [3] Power supply at nominal voltage. N (number of drives tested) = 6, 35 Degrees C ambient. [4] For +12 V, a –10% tolerance is allowed during initi...
Page 32 - Operating condition is defined as random 8 block reads.; General DC power requirement notes.; The +5V and +12V supplies should employ separate ground returns.; Conducted noise immunity
24 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E [5] See +12V current profile in Figure 1. [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 voltage tole...
Page 33 - Current profiles; 00GB model current profiles
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 25 7.3.3 Current profiles The +12V (top) and +5V (bottom) current profiles for the Constellation drives are shown below. Figure 1. 500GB model current profiles Note: All times and currents are typical. See Table 2 for maximum current requirements.
Page 34 - Power dissipation; Please refer to Table 2 for power dissipation numbers.
26 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 7.4 Power dissipation ST9500430SS, ST9500431SS and ST9500432SS in 3 Gbit 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 2). Lo...
Page 35 - Am; Random 8 Block Reads
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 27 ST9500430SS, ST9500431SS and ST9500432SS in 6 Gbit 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 3.). Locate the typical I/O ...
Page 36 - Environmental limits; Temperature; Location of the HDA temperature check point
28 Constellation 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). Maximum...
Page 37 - Relative humidity; The values below assume that no condensation on the drive occurs.; Shock and vibration; b. Operating—abnormal
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 29 7.5.2 Relative humidity The values below assume that no condensation on the drive occurs. a. Operating 5% to 95% non-condensing relative humidity with a maximum gradient of 20% per hour. b. Non-operating 5% to 95% non-condensing relative humidity. 7.5.3 Ef...
Page 40 - Vibration; Operating normal translational random flat profile; Air cleanliness
32 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 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 Gs 350 - 5...
Page 42 - Mechanical specifications; Mounting configuration dimensions
34 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 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 6 for detailed mounting configuration dimensions. See Se...
Page 43 - About FIPS; Purpose
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 35 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 Modules”. Th...
Page 44 - About self-encrypting drives; • Security Protocol Out; Data encryption; Admin SP
36 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 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 (TCG) Ente...
Page 45 - Drive locking
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 37 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 bands on the d...
Page 46 - The download file must be signed and authenticated.; Power requirements
38 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 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 recoverable since i...
Page 47 - Defect and error management; Drive internal defects/errors; Drive error recovery procedures
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 39 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 defect and...
Page 48 - SAS system errors; SAS Interface; Read and write retry count maximum recovery times
40 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 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 attempt. The ma...
Page 50 - Idle Read After Write
42 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 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 valid write...
Page 51 - Installation; Power is supplied through the SAS connector.; Drive orientation
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 43 11.0 Installation Constellation disc drive installation is a plug-and-play process. There are no jumpers, switches, or terminators on the drive. SAS drives are designed to be used in a host system that provides a SAS-compatible backplane with bays designed...
Page 52 - Cooling; Air flow
44 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 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 environme...
Page 54 - Interface requirements; SAS features; task management functions; Table 4 lists the SAS task management functions supported.; task management responses; Task name; Task management response codes; Function name
46 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 12.0 Interface requirements This section partially describes the interface requirements as implemented on Constellation drives. Additional information is provided in the SAS Interface Manual (part number 100293071). 12.1 SAS features This section lists the...
Page 55 - Dual port support; ports at the same time.
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 47 12.2 Dual port support Constellation SAS drives have two independent ports. These ports may be connected in the same or different SCSI domains. Each drive port has a unique SAS address. The two ports have the capability of independent port clocking (e.g. b...
Page 56 - SCSI commands supported; Supported commands; Command name
48 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 12.3 SCSI commands supported Table 6 lists the SCSI commands supported by Constellation drives. Table 6: Supported commands Command name Command code Supported Change Definition 40h N Compare 39h N Copy 18h N Copy and Verify 3Ah N Format Unit [1] 04h Y DPR...
Page 60 - Inquiry data; Constellation inquiry data; Bytes; PP; Mode Sense data; Default values
52 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 12.3.1 Inquiry data Table 7 lists the Inquiry command data that the drive should return to the initiator per the format given in the SAS Interface Manual . Table 7: Constellation inquiry data Bytes Data (hex) 0-15 00 00 xx** 12 8B 00 PP 0A 53 45 41 47 41 5...
Page 62 - Mode Sense data changeable and default values for 500GB drives; CHG 9a 26 01 0f ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00
54 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E Table 8: 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 ff DEF 82 0...
Page 63 - Miscellaneous operating features and conditions; Miscellaneous features; Miscellaneous status; Supported
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 55 12.4 Miscellaneous operating features and conditions Table 9 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 not supporte...
Page 64 - SAS physical interface
56 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 12.4.1 SAS physical interface Figure 10 shows the location of the SAS device connector J1. Figures 11 and 12 provide the dimensions of the SAS connector. Details of the physical, electrical, and logical characteristics are provided within this section. The...
Page 65 - SAS device plug dimensions; C OF DATUM B
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 57 Figure 11. 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 B 42.73 R...
Page 67 - Physical characteristics; This section defines physical interface connector.; Connector requirements; The SAS device connector is illustrated in Figures 11 and 12.; Electrical description; SAS drives use the device connector for:; Pin descriptions
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 59 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 future revisio...
Page 68 - SAS transmitters and receivers; Power; Signal characteristics; Ready LED Out; Normal command activity
60 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 12.4.6 SAS transmitters and receivers A typical SAS differential copper transmitter and receiver pair is shown in Figure 13. The receiver is AC cou-pling to eliminate ground shift noise. Figure 13. SAS transmitters and receivers 12.4.7 Power The drive rece...
Page 69 - Differential signals; SAS-2 Specification Compliance; LED drive signal; State; VOH; LED o; General interface characteristics; Characteristic
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 61 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. See Table ...
Page 71 - Index; Numerics
Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E 63 Index Numerics 12 volt pins 60 5 volt pins 60 6 Gbps 61 A abort task set function 46 AC coupling 60 AC power requirements 22 ACA active status 55 ACA active, faulted initiator status 55 acoustics 33 active LED Out signal 60 actuator 8 assembly design 6 ada...
Page 72 - See
64 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E description 6 DFE 61 dimensions 34 disc rotation speed 10 drive 32 drive characteristics 10 drive failure 15 Drive Locking 37 drive mounting 34 , 45 drive select 59 dual port support 47 E electrical description of connector 59 signal characteristics 60 spe...
Page 74 - See also
66 Constellation SAS Product Manual, Rev. E R radio interference regulations 3 Random number generator 37 RCD bit 12 read error rates 14 , 39 read/write data heads 10 receivers 60 recommended mounting 31 Recoverable Errors 14 recovered media data 14 reference documents 5 relative humidity 29 reliabi...
