Seagate BARRACUDA ST31500541AS User Manual

Product ManualBarracuda LP Series SATA100564361Rev. BJune 2009ST32000542ASST31500541ASST31000520AS

4 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. BTable 1: Drive specifications summary for 2000 and 1500 Gbyte modelsDrive specification ST32000542AS

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 5*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may va

6 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. BTable 2: Drive specifications summary for 1000 and 500 Gbyte modelsDrive specification ST31000520AS

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 7*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may va

8 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B2.1 Formatted capacity ModelFormatted capacity*Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sectorST32000542AS 2000

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 92.4 Physical characteristicsST32000542AS and ST31500541AS ST31000520AS ST3500412ASMaximum height 26.1

10 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B2.7 Power specificationsThe drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connec

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 11Table 3: DC power requirements Power dissipation (2TB and 1.5TB models) Avg (watts 25° C) Avg 5V ty

12 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B2.7.1.1 Typical current profiles Note. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile (2 disk typ

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 132.7.4 Power-management modesThe drive provides programmable power management to provide greater ener

Revision historyCopyright © 2009 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.Publication number: 100564361, Rev. B June 2009Seagate,

14 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B2.8 Environmental specifications2.8.1 Ambient temperatureAmbient temperature is defined as the tempe

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 152.8.5 ShockAll shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input shock a

16 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B2.9 AcousticsDrive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound power levels (no pure

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 172.11 Reliability2.11.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) The produ

18 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. BKorean RRLIf these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo, they comply with par

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 192.13 Environmental protectionSeagate designs its products to meet environmental protection requireme

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Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 213.0 Configuring and mounting the driveThis section contains the specifications and instructions for

22 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B3.2 Configuring the driveEach drive on the Serial ATA interface connects point-to-point with the Ser

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 233.4 Drive mountingYou can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B iContents1.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Recommended case temperature measurement location24 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. BFigure 4. Mounting dimensions (500 GB models)

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 254.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interfaceThese drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that supp

26 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitionsTable 6 summarizes the signals on the Serial ATA

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 274.3 Supported ATA commandsThe following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive supp

28 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. BSecurity Erase Prepare F3HSecurity Erase Unit F4HSecurity Freeze F5HSecurity Set Password F1HSecurit

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 294.3.1 Identify Device commandThe Identify Device command (command code ECH) transfers information ab

30 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B60–61Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available(see Section 2.1 for related information)

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 31Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not suppo

32 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. BBit Word 880 Ultra DMA mode 0 is supported.1 Ultra DMA mode 1 is supported.2 Ultra DMA mode 2 is sup

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 334.3.2 Set Features commandThis command controls the implementation of various features that the driv

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34 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commandsS.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disc drives. When S.M.

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 355.0 Seagate Technology support servicesInternetFor information regarding Seagate products and servic

36 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. BCustomer Service OperationsWarranty ServiceSeagate offers worldwide customer support for Seagate pro

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 37IndexAACA 18acceleration 15acoustics 16Active 13Active mode 13AFR 17Agency certification

38 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. BIdentify Device command 29Idle 13, 27Idle Immediate 27Idle mode 10, 13Information Techno

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 39S.M.A.R.T. Read Data 28S.M.A.R.T. Read Log Sector 28S.M.A.R.T. Return Status 28S.M.A.R.T. Save

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Seagate Technology LLC920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066-4544, USAPublication Number: 100564361, Rev. B, Printed in U.S.A.

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B iiiList of FiguresFigure 1. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 11.0 IntroductionThis manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the

2 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B1.1 About the Serial ATA interfaceThe Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the tradi

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 32.0 Drive specificationsUnless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditi