Seagate ST936751SS, ST973451SS Reliability, Formatted capacities, Programmable drive capacity

3.4Reliability

•Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.55%

•Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of 1,600,000 hours

•Incorporates industry-standard Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)

•5-year warranty

3.5Formatted capacities

Standard OEM models are formatted to 512 bytes per block. The block size is selectable at format time and must be a multiple of 4 bytes. Users having the necessary equipment may modify the data block size before issuing a format command and obtain different formatted capacities than those listed.

To provide a stable target capacity environment and at the same time provide users with flexibility if they choose, Seagate recommends product planning in one of two modes:

1.Seagate designs capacity points at certain block sizes that Seagate guarantees current and future prod- ucts will meet. We recommend customers use this capacity in their project planning, as it ensures a stable operating point with backward and forward compatibility from generation to generation. The current guar- anteed operating points for this product are:

Capacity (Blocks)

	ST973451SS		ST936751SS
Sector Size	Decimal	Hex	Decimal	Hex
512	143,374,744	88BB998h	71,687,372	445DCCCh
520	140,395,093	85E4255h	70,197,547	42F212Bh
524	137,577,184	83342E0h	68,766,592	4194B80h
528	136,331,467	82040CBh	68,165,733	4102065h

2.Seagate drives also may be used at the maximum available capacity at a given block size, but the excess capacity above the guaranteed level will vary between other drive families and from generation to genera- tion, depending on how each block size actually formats out for zone frequencies and splits over servo bursts. This added capacity potential may range from 0.1 to 1.3 percent above the guaranteed capacities listed above. Using the drives in this manner gives the absolute maximum capacity potential, but the user must determine if the extra capacity potential is useful, or whether their assurance of backward and for- ward compatibility takes precedence.

3.6Programmable drive capacity

Using the Mode Select command, the drive can change its capacity to something less than maximum. See the Mode Select (6) parameter list table in the SAS Interface Manual, part number 100293071. A value of zero in the Number of Blocks field indicates that the drive will not change the capacity it is currently formatted to have. A number other than zero and less than the maximum number of LBAs in the Number of Blocks field changes the total drive capacity to the value in the Number of Blocks field. A value greater than the maximum number of LBAs is rounded down to the maximum capacity.

3.7Factory-installed accessories

OEM standard drives are shipped with the Savvio 15K SAS Installation Guide (part number 100407741) unless otherwise specified.

Savvio 15K SAS Product Manual, Rev. B 9