Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA, 3Gb/s, 500GB Manual

Product ManualBarracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA100529369Rev. BFebruary 2009ST31000528ASST3750528ASST3500418ASST3500410ASST3320418ASST3250318ASST3160318AS

4 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. BTable 1: Drive specifications summary for 1000 and 750 Gbyte modelsDrive specification ST310005

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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. BTable 2: Drive specifications summary for 500 Gbyte modelsDrive specification ST3500418AS and S

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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. BTable 3: Drive specifications summary for 250 Gbyte modelsDrive specification ST3250318AS ST316

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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. B2.1 Formatted capacity*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 112.3 Recording and interface technology2.4 Physical characteristics Interface Serial ATA (SATA)

12 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B2.5 Seek timeSeek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All ti

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

Revision historyCopyright © 2008-2009 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.Publication number: 100529369, Rev. B, February 20

14 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B2.7.2 Conducted noiseInput noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply across an e

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

16 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B2.8.5 ShockAll shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input sh

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

18 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B2.11 Reliability2.11.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) The

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

20 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B2.13 Environmental protectionSeagate designs its products to meet environmental protection requ

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

22 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B3.2 Configuring the driveEach drive on the Serial ATA interface connects point-to-point with th

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

24 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. BFigure 4. Mounting dimensions (500, 320, 250 and 160 GB models)Recommended case temperature mea

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

26 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitionsTable 8 summarizes the signals on the Seria

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

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

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

30 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B60–61Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available(see Section 2.1 for related informa

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

32 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B15 Shall be cleared to 0.Bit Word 880 Ultra DMA mode 0 is supported.1 Ultra DMA mode 1 is suppo

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 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. B4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commandsS.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disc drives. When

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

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

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 37IndexAACA 19acceleration 16acoustics 17Active 14Active mode 14AFR 18Agency certific

38 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. BI/O duty cycle 18Identify Device 27Identify Device command 29Idle 14, 27Idle Immediat

Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 39S.M.A.R.T. Execute Offline 28S.M.A.R.T. implementation 27S.M.A.R.T. Read Attribute Threshol

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

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

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

2 Barracuda 7200.12 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B1.1 About the Serial ATA interfaceThe Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the

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