2.2Formatted capacity

Model

Formatted capacity*

Guaranteed sectors

Bytes per sector

 

 

 

 

ST3500841SCE

500 Gbytes

976,773,168

512

 

 

 

 

ST3400833SCE

400 Gbytes

781,422,768

512

 

 

 

 

ST3300822SCE

300 Gbytes

586,072,368

512

 

 

 

 

ST3250824SCE

250 Gbytes

488,397,168

512

 

 

 

 

ST3200827SCE

200 Gbytes

390,721,968

512

 

 

 

 

ST3160212SCE

160 Gbytes

312,581,808

512

 

 

 

 

ST3120213SCE

120 Gbytes

234,441,648

512

 

 

 

 

ST3802110SCE

80 Gbytes

156,301,488

512

 

 

 

 

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

2.2.1LBA 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 137 Gbytes.

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.

2.4Recording and interface technology

Interface

ATA

 

 

Recording method

16/17 EPRML

 

 

Recording density KBPI (kbits/inch max)

 

ST3500841SCE, ST3400833SCE, ST3300822SCE,

790.1

ST3250824SCE, ST3200827SCE

 

ST3160212SCE, ST3120213SCE, ST3802110SCE

840.0

 

 

Track density KTPI (ktracks/inch max)

 

ST3500841SCE, ST3400833SCE, ST3300822SCE,

124.5

ST3250824SCE, ST3200827SCE

 

ST3160212SCE, ST3120213SCE, ST3802110SCE

141.5

 

 

Areal density (Gbits/inch2 max)

 

ST3500841SCE, ST3400833SCE, ST3300822SCE,

97.69

ST3250824SCE, ST3200827SCE

 

 

 

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Seagate ST3120213SCE manual Formatted capacity, Default logical geometry, Recording and interface technology, LBA mode