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2.2Formatted capacity
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ST2000VM002 | 2000GB | 3,907,029,168 | 4096 (512 bytes per sector emulated at the | |
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ST1500VM002 | 1500GB | 2,930,277,168 | 4096 (512 bytes per sector emulated at the | |
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*One Gbyte equals one billion 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
See Section 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words
2.3Default logical geometry
Cylinders | Read/write heads | Sectors per track |
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16,383 | 16 | 63 |
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LBA mode
When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to
2.4Recording and interface technology
Interface | Serial ATA (SATA) |
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Recording method | Perpendicular |
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Recording density (max) | 1632kb/in |
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Track density (avg) | 274 ktracks/in |
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Areal density (avg) | 422Gb/in |
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Spindle speed (RPM) | 5900 ± 0.2% |
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Internal data transfer rate (max) | 1928Mb/s |
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Sustained data transfer rate (max) | 144MB/s |
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I/O | 300MB/s |
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