August 2007
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One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity
may vary depending on oper ating envi ronme nt and for matting. Seagate reserves the right to chan ge, wi thout notice, product offerings or specifications.
• State-of-the-art cache and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms.
• Full-track multiple-sector transfer capability without local processor intervention.
• 350 Gs nonoperating shock.
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring and reporting.
• Support for Read Multiple and Write Multiple commands.
• Support for autodetection of master/slave drives that use cable select (CSEL).
• SeaTools diagnostic software performs a drive self-test that eliminates unnecessary drive returns.
• The 3D Defense System™, which includes Drive Defense, Data Defense, and Diagnostic Defense, offers
the industry’s most comprehensive protection for disc drives.
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2.0Drive specifications
Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal
power. For convenience, the phrases the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to indicate
ST3400832ACE, ST3300831ACE, ST3250823ACE and ST3200826ACE model drives.
2.1Specification summary table
The specifications listed in this table are for quick reference. For details on specification measurement or definition, see the appropriate section of this manual.
Track-to-track seek time (msec typical)0.8 (read), 1.0 (write)
Average seek (msec typical)18 (read), 20 (write)
Startup current (typical) 12V (peak)2.0 amps
Seek power (typical)8.6 watts
Operating (Consumer S torage Profile)7.2 watts
Idle mode (typical)6.9 watts
Standby mode (typical)0.80 watts
Sleep mode (typical)0.80 watts
Voltage tolerance
(including noise)
Ambient
temperature
Temperature gradient
(°C per hour max)
Relative humidity5% to 90% (operating)
Relative humidity gradient30% per hour max
Wet bulb temperature
(°C max)
Altitude, operating–60.96 m to 3,048 m
Altitude, nonoperating
(below mean sea level, max)
Operational Shock
(Gs max at 2 msec)
Non-Operational Shock
(Gs max at 2 msec)
Vibration, operating0.25 G acceleration
Vibration, nonoperating0.25 G (5–22 Hz)
Drive acoustics, sound power
Idle** (bels)2.6 (typical)
Operational (bels)2.8 (typical)
Nonrecoverable read errors1 per 10
Service life5 Years
Contact start-stop cycles
(25°C, 50% rel. humidity)
5V ± 5%
12V ± 10%
0° to 60°C (operating)
–40° to 70°C (nonoperating)
20°C (operating)
30°C (nonoperating)
5% to 95% (nonoperating)
37.7 (operating)
40 (nonoperating)
(–200 ft. to 10,000+ ft.)
–60.96 m to 12,192 m
(–200 ft. to 40,000+ ft.)
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300 Gs
5.0 Gs (22–350 Hz)
2.8 (max)
3.0 (max)
50,000
14
bits read
2.4 (typical)
2.7 (max)
2.8 (typical)
3.0 (max)
*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment
and formatting.
**During period s of driv e idle, some offline activity may occu r ac cor ding to th e S. M.A .R. T. spe cif icat ion, whi ch ma y in crease ac oustic and
*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment
and formatting.
capacity*
Guaranteed
sectors Bytes per sector
2.2.1LBA 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 4.1.2, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes.
2.3Record i n g an d i nt erface technol o gy
InterfaceA TA
Recording method16/17 EPRML
Recording density BPI (bits/inch max)763,000
Track density TPI (tracks/inch max)120,000
Areal density (Mbits/inch2 max)91,560
Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%)7,200
Internal data-transfer rate OD (Mbytes/sec max)95
Sustained data transfer rate OD (Mbytes/sec max)65.0
I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)100 (Ultra DMA mode 5)
Interleave1:1
Cache buffer
ST3400832ACE, ST3300831ACE, ST3250823ACE and ST3200826ACE8 Mbytes (8,192 kbytes)
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2.4Physical characteristics
Drive specification
Maximum he i g ht
(mm)
(inches)
26.11
1.028
Maximum wid th
Maximum length
Typical weight
(mm)
(inches)
(mm)
(inches)
(grams)
(pounds)
101.85
4.010 ± 0.010
146.99
5.787
635
1.39
2.5Seek time
Seek measurem ent s a re t ake n wi th nom inal po w er a t 25 °C amb ient temperature. All times are measured using
drive diagnostics. The specifications in the table below are defined as follows:
• Track-to-track seek time is an average of all possible single-track seeks in both directions.
• Average seek time is a true statistical random average of at least 5,000 measurements of seeks between
random tracks, less overhead.
Table 2: Typical seek times
T yp ical seek times (msec)Read Write
Track-to-track0.81.0
Average1820
Average latency:4.164.16
Note. These drives are designed to consistently meet the seek times represented in this manual. Physical seeks,
regardless of mode (such as track-to-track and average), are expected to meet or exceed the noted values.
However, due to the manner in which these drives a r e formatted, benchmark tests that include command
overhead or measure logical seeks may produce results that vary from these specifications.
2.6Start/stop times
Power-on to Ready (sec)15.5 (max)
St andby to Ready (sec)14.0 (max)
Ready to spindle stop (sec)10 (max)
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2.7Power specifications
The drive receives DC power (+5V and +12V) through a four-pin standard drive power connector.
2.7.1Power consumption
Power requiremen ts for the dr iv es are lis ted in the ta ble on page 7. Typical power measu rem ent s are ba sed on
an average of drives tested, under nominal conditions, using +5.0V and +12.0V input voltage at 25°C ambient
temperature.
• Spinup power
Spinup power is measured from the time of power-on to the time that the drive spindle re aches operating speed.
• Seek mode
During seek mod e, the read /write actuator arm move s toward a spe cific positi on on the d isc surface and does
not execute a read or write operation. Servo electronics are active. Seek mode power represents the worstcase power consumption, using only random seeks with read or write latency time. This mode is not typical
and is provided for worst-case information.
• Operating power and current
Operating power is measured using a standard Consumer Storage Profile.
• Idle mode powe r
Idle mode power is measured with the drive up to speed, with servo electronics active and with the heads in
a random track location.
• Standby mode
During Standby mode, the drive accepts commands, but the drive is not spinning, and the servo and read/
write electronics are in power-down mode.