Seagate ST2000VX000, ST1000VX000 manual Formatted capacity, LBA mode, Default logical geometry

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2.2Formatted capacity

Model	Formatted	Guaranteed	Bytes per sector
	capacity*	sectors
ST3000VX000	3000GB	5,860,533,168
ST2000VX000	2000GB	3,907,029,168	4K
ST1000VX000	1000GB	1,953,525,168

*One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion 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 (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1,where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above.

See Section 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137GB.

2.3Default logical geometry

•Cylinders: 16,383

•Read/write heads: 16

•Sectors per track: 63

LBA mode

When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1,where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above.

2.4 Recording and interface technology

Interface	SATA
Recording method	TGMR
Recording density (kFCI)	1807
Track density (ktracks/inch avg)	352
Areal density (Gb/in2 avg)	625
Spindle speed (RPM)	7200 ± 0.2%
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max)	2147
Maximum sustained data transfer rate, OD read (MB/s )	210
Average data rate, read/write (MB/s)	156
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max)	600

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