Seagate BARRACUDA ST31000528AS User Manual

Product ManualBarracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA100529369Rev. GFebruary 2010ST31000528ASST3750528ASST3500418ASST3500410ASST3320418ASST3250318ASST3160318AS

4 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 1000 and 750GB modelsDrive specification ST31000528AS

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 5*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity m

6 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G Table 2: Drive specifications summary for 500GB modelsDrive specification ST3500418AS and ST350

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 7*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity m

8 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G Table 3: Drive specifications summary for 250GB modelsDrive specification ST3250318AS ST3160318

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 9*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity m

10 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 2.1 Formatted capacityModelFormatted capacity*Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sectorST31000528AS 1

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 112.3 Recording and interface technologyInterface Serial ATA (SATA)Recording method Perpendicular

12 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 2.5 Seek timeSeek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All ti

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 132.7 Power specificationsThe drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power c

Revision history© 2008-2010 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.Publication number: 100529369, Rev. G, February 2010Seagate,

14 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 2.7.2 Conducted noiseInput noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply across an e

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 152.8 Environmental specifications2.8.1 Ambient temperatureAmbient temperature is defined as the

16 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 2.8.5 ShockAll shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input sh

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 172.9 AcousticsDrive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound power levels (no

18 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 2.11 WarrantyTo determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the fo

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 19Korean RRLIf these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo, they comply wit

20 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 2.13 Environmental protectionSeagate designs its products to meet environmental protection requ

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 213.0 Configuring and mounting the driveThis section contains the specifications and instructions

22 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 3.2 Configuring the driveEach drive on the Serial ATA interface connects point-to-point with th

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 233.4 Drive mountingYou can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-moun

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G iContents1.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Recommended case temperature measurement location24 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G Figure 4. Mounting dimensions (500, 320, 250 a

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 254.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interfaceThese drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that

26 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitionsTable 8 summarizes the signals on the Seria

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 274.3 Supported ATA commandsThe following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive

28 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G Security Erase Prepare F3HSecurity Erase Unit F4HSecurity Freeze F5HSecurity Set Password F1HSe

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 294.3.1 Identify Device commandThe Identify Device command (command code ECH) transfers informati

30 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 60–61Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available(see Section 2.1 for related informa

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 31Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not

32 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G Bit Word 880 Ultra DMA mode 0 is supported.1 Ultra DMA mode 1 is supported.2 Ultra DMA mode 2 i

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 334.3.2 Set Features commandThis command controls the implementation of various features that the

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34 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commandsS.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disk drives. When

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 355.0 Seagate Technology support servicesInternetFor information regarding Seagate products and s

36 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G Customer Service OperationsWarranty ServiceSeagate offers worldwide customer support for Seagat

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 37IndexAACA 19acceleration 16acoustics 17Active 14Active mode 14Agency certification

38 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G Initialize Device Parameters 27Input noise ripple 14input voltage 13interface 11, 25i

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 39Security Erase Prepare 28Security Erase Unit 28Security Freeze 28Security Set Password

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Seagate Technology LLC920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066-4544, USAPublication Number: 100529369, Rev. G, Printed in U.S.A.

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G iiiList of FiguresFigure 1. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 11.0 IntroductionThis manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications fo

2 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 1.1 About the Serial ATA interfaceThe Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 32.0 Drive specificationsUnless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient co