Seagate ST3000VN000, ST2000VN000 manual Formatted capacity, LBA mode, Default logical geometry

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2.2Formatted capacity

Model	Formatted	Guaranteed	Bytes per sector
	capacity*	sectors
ST4000VN000	4000GB	7,814,037,168
ST3000VN000	3000GB	5,860,533,168
			4K
ST2000VN000	2000GB	3,907,029, 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.

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