1 formatted capacity, 1 lba mode, 2 default logical geometry – Seagate BARRACUDA 7200.11 SERIAL ATA ST3640330AS User Manual

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Barracuda 7200.11 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G

2.1

Formatted capacity

*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment

and formatting.

2.1.1

LBA mode

When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1,
where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above.

See Section 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-
bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes.

2.2

Default logical geometry

LBA mode

When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1,
where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above.

2.3

Recording and interface technology

Model

Formatted

capacity*

Guaranteed

sectors

Bytes per sector

ST31000340AS
ST31000640AS

1000 Gbytes

1,953,525,168

512

ST3750330AS

ST3750630AS

750 Gbytes

1,465,149,168

512

ST3640330AS

ST3640630AS

640 Gbytes

1,250,284,896

512

ST3500320AS

ST3500620AS

ST3500820AS

500 Gbytes

976,773,168

512

Cylinders

Read/write heads

Sectors per track

16,383

16

63

Interface

Serial ATA (SATA)

Recording method

Perpendicular

Recording density (kbits/inch max)

1090

Track density (ktracks/inch avg)

150

Areal density (Gbits/inch

2

avg)

164

Spindle speed (RPM)

7,200 ± 0.2%

Internal data transfer rate (Mbits/sec max)

1287

Sustained data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)

105

I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)

300

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