Seagate ST3200542AS Manual

Product ManualBarracuda LP Series SATA100564361Rev. DNovember 2009ST32000542ASST31500541ASST31000520AS

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

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

4 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 2000 and 1500GB modelsDrive specification ST32000542AS ST

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 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. D Table 2: Drive specifications summary for 1000GB modelsDrive specification ST31000520ASFormatted ca

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 172.11 WarrantyTo determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the follow

18 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Radio and television interference. This equipment generates and uses radio frequency energy and if

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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32 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commandsS.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disk drives. When S.M

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

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

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 35IndexAACA 17acceleration 15acoustics 16Active 13Active mode 13Agency certification 17al

36 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D input voltage 10interface 8, 23interference 17internal data-transfer rate OD 8is 9ISO d

Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 37Security Set Password 26Security Unlock 26See “S.M.A.R.T. commands” on page 34 25Seek 26See

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Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D iiiContents1.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D vList of FiguresFigure 1. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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