2.2Formatted capacity

 

Formatted

Guaranteed

 

Model

capacity

sectors

Bytes per sector

 

 

 

 

ST3400832ACE

400 Gbytes

781,422,768

512

 

 

 

 

ST3300831ACE

300 Gbytes

586,072,368

512

 

 

 

 

ST3250823ACE

250 Gbytes

488,397,168

512

 

 

 

 

ST3200826ACE

200 Gbytes

390,721,968

512

 

 

 

 

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

2.3

Recording and interface technology

 

 

 

 

Interface

 

ATA

 

 

Recording method

16/17 EPRML

 

 

Recording density BPI (bits/inch max)

763,000

 

 

Track density TPI (tracks/inch max)

120,000

 

 

Areal density (Mbits/inch2 max)

91,560

Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%)

7,200

 

 

Internal data-transfer rate OD (Mbytes/sec max)

95

 

 

Sustained data transfer rate OD (Mbytes/sec max)

65.0

 

 

I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)

100 (Ultra DMA mode 5)

 

 

 

Interleave

 

1:1

 

 

Cache buffer

 

ST3400832ACE, ST3300831ACE, ST3250823ACE and ST3200826ACE

8 Mbytes (8,192 kbytes)

 

 

 

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