Seagate ST91000640NS, ST91000641NS, ST91000642NS, ST9250610NS, ST9250611NS, ST9250612NS, ST9500620NS, ST9500621NS, ST9500622NS 3.2 Formatted capacity , , 3.3 Default logical geometry , , 3.4 Recording and interface technology

Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 7

3.2 Formatted capacity

Model Formatted

capacity* Guaranteed

sectors

Bytes per sector

ST91000640NS

ST91000641NS

ST91000642NS

1000 GB 1,953,525,168

512

ST9500620NS

ST9500621NS

ST9500622NS

500 GB 976,773,168

ST9250610NS

ST9250611NS

ST9250612NS

250 GB 488,397,168

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

and formatting.

3.2.1 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 7.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-

bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes.

3.3 Default 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.

3.4 Recording and interface technology

All models

Interface Serial ATA (SATA)

Recording method Perpendicular

Recording density, KBPI (Kb/in max) 1544

Track density, KTPI (Ktracks/in avg) 270

Areal density (Gb/in2 avg) 417

Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%) 7200

Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max) 1304

Sustained data transfer rate (MB/s max) 115

I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max) 600

Contents

Main Constellation.2TM Serial ATA Revision history Contents Page List of Figures Page 1.0 Seagate Technology support services 2.0 Introduction 2.1 About the Serial ATA interface 3.0 Drive specifications 3.1 Specification summary tables Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 5 Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 1TB, 500 and 250 GB models 6 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Ma nual, Rev. B 3.2 Formatted capacity 3.3 Default logical geometry 3.4 Recording and interface technology 3.5 Physical characteristics 3.6 Seek time 3.7 Start/stop times 3.8 Power specifications Page Page Page Page Page 3.8.4 Power-management modes Idle mode Sleep mode Idle and Standby timers 3.8.4.1 Extended Power Conditions - PowerChoice PowerChoice is invoked using one of two methods PowerChoice exits power saving states under the following conditions PowerChoice provides the following reporting methods for tracking purposes 3.9 Environmental limits 3.9.1 Temperature 3.9.2 Relative humidity Page 3.10 Acoustics 3.11 Electromagnetic immunity 3.12 Reliability 3.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) Table 4: Radio frequency environments 3.13 Agency certification 3.13.1 Safety certification 3.13.2 Electromagnetic compatibility Korean RRL Australian C-Tick (N176) 3.14 Environmental protection 3.14.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive 3.14.2 Reference documents 3.14.3 Product warranty Shipping Storage Product repair and return information 3.14.4 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive 3.15 Corrosive environment 4.0 Configuring and mounting the drive 4.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions Caution: 4.2 Configuring the drive 4.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors 4.4 Drive mounting 4.5 Cooling 5.0 About FIPS Purpose Level 2 security 6.0 About self-encrypting drives 6.1 Data encryption 6.2 Controlled access 6.2.1 Admin SP 6.2.2 Locking SP 6.3 Random number generator (RNG) 6.4 Drive locking 6.5 Data bands 6.6 Cryptographic erase 6.7 Authenticated firmware download 6.8 Power requirements 6.9 Supported commands 6.10 RevertSP 7.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface 7.1 Hot-Plug compatibility 7.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions Notes: Table 5: Serial ATA connector pin definitions Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 35 7.3 Supported ATA commands Table 6: Supported ATA commands 36 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 37 7.3.1 Identify Device command 38 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 39 Note. 40 Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 41 7.3.2 Set Features command Table 7: Set Features command values 7.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands Table 8: S.M.A.R.T. commands Index A B C D G H I K L S T V W