Seagate ST1500DL003, ST2000DL003 manual Formatted capacity, LBA mode, Default logical geometry

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Table 1 Drive specifications summary for 2000GB and 1500GB Models (Continued)
Drive specification	ST2000DL003	ST1500DL003
Warranty	To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to
	access the following web page: support.seagate.com/customer/
	warranty_validation.jsp
	From this page, click on the “Verify Your Warranty” link. You will be asked
	to provide the drive serial number, model number (or part number) and
	country of purchase. The system will display the warranty information for
	your drive.
Load/Unload cycles	300K at 25°C, 50% rel. humidity
Supports Hotplug operation per	Yes
the Serial ATA Revision 3.0
specification

*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting.

**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.

2.2Formatted capacity

Model	Formatted	Guaranteed	Bytes per sector
	capacity*	sectors
ST2000DL003	2000GB	3,907,029,168	4096
ST1500DL003	1500GB	2,930,277,168	4096

*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 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 137GBs.

2.3Default logical geometry

Cylinders	Read/write heads	Sectors per track
16,383	16	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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