Seagate BARRACUDA ST32000542AS User Manual

Product ManualBarracuda LP Series SATA100564361Rev. C September 2009ST32000542ASST31500541ASST31000520AS

4 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 2000 and 1500 Gbyte modelsDrive specification ST32000542A

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

6 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Table 2: Drive specifications summary for 1000 Gbyte modelsDrive specification ST31000520ASFormatte

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

8 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.1 Formatted capacity ModelFormatted capacity*Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sectorST32000542AS 200

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 92.4 Physical characteristicsST32000542AS and ST31500541AS ST31000520ASMaximum height 26.1 mm (1.028

10 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.7 Power specificationsThe drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power conne

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

12 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.7.1.1 Typical current profiles Note. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile (2 disk ty

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

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

14 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.8 Environmental specifications2.8.1 Ambient temperatureAmbient temperature is defined as the temp

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

16 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 2.9 AcousticsDrive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound power levels (no pur

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

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

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

20 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 3.0 Configuring and mounting the driveThis section contains the specifications and instructions for

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 213.2 Configuring the driveEach drive on the Serial ATA interface connects point-to-point with the Se

22 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 3.4 Drive mountingYou can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 234.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interfaceThese drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that sup

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

24 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitionsTable 6 summarizes the signals on the Serial AT

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 254.3 Supported ATA commandsThe following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive sup

26 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Security Erase Prepare F3HSecurity Erase Unit F4HSecurity Freeze F5HSecurity Set Password F1HSecuri

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 274.3.1 Identify Device commandThe Identify Device command (command code ECH) transfers information a

28 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 60–61Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available(see Section 2.1 for related information

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 29Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not supp

30 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Bit Word 880 Ultra DMA mode 0 is supported.1 Ultra DMA mode 1 is supported.2 Ultra DMA mode 2 is su

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 314.3.2 Set Features commandThis command controls the implementation of various features that the dri

32 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 4.3.3 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. C 335.0 Seagate Technology support servicesInternetFor information regarding Seagate products and servi

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34 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Customer Service OperationsWarranty ServiceSeagate offers worldwide customer support for Seagate pr

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 35IndexAACA 18acceleration 15acoustics 16Active 13Active mode 13AFR 17Agency certificatio

36 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C Idle 13, 25Idle Immediate 25Idle mode 10, 13Information Technology Equipment (ITE) 17In

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 37S.M.A.R.T. Read Log Sector 26S.M.A.R.T. Return Status 26S.M.A.R.T. Save Attribute Values 26S.

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

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

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

2 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 1.1 About the Serial ATA interfaceThe Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the trad

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