seagate CONSTELLATION SERIAL ATA REV B 4-2009 product manual
Product Manual
Constellation Serial ATA
ST9500530NS
ST9160511NS
100538694
Rev. B
April 2009
Revision history
Revision Date Sheets affected or comments
Rev. A 02/24/09 Initial release.
Rev. B 04/20/09 5, 7-9, 12-13 and 15.
Copyright © 2009 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.
Publication number: 100538694, Rev. B April 2009
Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the
United States and/or other countries. Constellation, SeaTools and SeaTDD are either trademarks or regis
tered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or
other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or
TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer's operating system may use a different standard of measure
ment and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other
functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Quantitative usage examples for various applica
tions are for illustrative purposes. Actual quantities will vary based on various factors, including file size,
file format, features and application software. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product
offerings or specifications.
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Contents
1.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.0 Drive specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1 Specification summary tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2 Formatted capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2.1 LBA mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.3 Default logical geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.4 Recording and interface technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.5 Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.6 Seek time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.7 Start/stop times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.8 Power specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.8.1 Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.8.2 Conducted noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.8.3 Voltage tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.8.4 Power-management modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.9 Environmental specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.9.1 Ambient temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.9.2 Temperature gradient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.9.3 Humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.9.4 Altitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.9.5 Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.9.6 Vibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.10 Acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.11 Electromagnetic immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.12 Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) . . . 16
2.13 Agency certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.13.1 Safety certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.13.2 Electromagnetic compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.13.3 FCC verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.14 Environmental protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.14.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive . . . . . 18
2.14.2 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.15 Corrosive environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.2 Configuring the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.4 Drive mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.5 Cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.1 Hot-Plug compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.3 Supported ATA commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.3.1 Identify Device command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.3.2 Set Features command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
5.0 Seagate Technology support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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List of Figures
Figure 1. Typical 5V/12V startup and operation current profile for ST9500530NS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Figure 2. Typical 5V/12V startup and operation current profile for ST9160511NS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Figure 3. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Figure 4. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Figure 5. Mounting dimensions—top, side and end view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Figure 6. Air flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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1.0 Introduction
This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate
Constellation
ST9500530NS ST9160511NS
These drives provide the following key features:
• 7,200 RPM spindle speed.
• High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 300 Mbytes per second).
• Perpendicular recording technology provides the drives with increased areal density.
• State-of-the-art cache and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms.
• Native Command Queueing with command ordering to increase performance in demanding applications.
• Full-track multiple-sector transfer capability without local processor intervention.
• Quiet operation.
• SeaTools diagnostic software performs a drive self-test that eliminates unnecessary drive returns.
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring and reporting.
• Supports latching SATA cables and connectors.
• Worldwide Name (WWN) capability uniquely identifies the drive.
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Serial ATA model drives:
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1.1 About the Serial ATA interface
The Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the traditional (parallel) ATA interface. The primary
advantages include:
• Easy installation and configuration with true plug-and-play connectivity. It is not necessary to set any jumpers or other configuration options.
• Thinner and more flexible cabling for improved enclosure airflow and ease of installation.
• Scalability to higher performance levels.
In addition, Serial ATA makes the transition from parallel ATA easy by providing legacy software support. Serial
ATA was designed to allow you to install a Serial ATA host adapter and Serial ATA disc drive in your current
system and expect all of your existing applications to work as normal.
The Serial ATA interface connects each disc drive in a point-to-point configuration with the Serial ATA host
adapter. There is no master/slave relationship with Serial ATA devices like there is with parallel ATA. If two
drives are attached on one Serial ATA host adapter, the host operating system views the two devices as if they
were both “masters” on two separate ports. This essentially means both drives behave as if they are Device 0
(master) devices.
Note. The host adapter may, optionally, emulate a master/slave environment to host software where two
devices on separate Serial ATA ports are represented to host software as a Device 0 (master) and
Device 1 (slave) accessed at the same set of host bus addresses. A host adapter that emulates a
master/slave environment manages two sets of shadow registers. This is not a typical Serial ATA
environment.
The Serial ATA host adapter and drive share the function of emulating parallel ATA device behavior to provide
backward compatibility with existing host systems and software. The Command and Control Block registers,
PIO and DMA data transfers, resets, and interrupts are all emulated.
The Serial ATA host adapter contains a set of registers that shadow the contents of the traditional device registers, referred to as the Shadow Register Block. All Serial ATA devices behave like Device 0 devices. For additional information about how Serial ATA emulates parallel ATA, refer to the “Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized
AT Attachment” specification. The specification can be downloaded from www.serialata.org.
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2.0 Drive 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 the
following drive models:
ST9500530NS ST9160511NS
Product data communicated in this manual is specific only to the model numbers listed in this manual. The data
listed in this manual may not be predictive of future generation specifications or requirements. If you are
designing a system which will use one of the models listed or future generation products and need further
assistance, please contact your Field Applications Engineer (FAE) or our global support services group as
shown in Section 5.0.
2.1 Specification summary tables
The specifications listed in the following tables are for quick reference. For details on specification measurement or definition, see the appropriate section of this manual.
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Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 500 and 160 GB models
Drive specification ST9500530NS ST9160511NS
Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 500 160
Guaranteed sectors 976,773,168 312,581,808
Heads 6 2
Discs 3 1
Bytes per sector 512
Default sectors per track 63
Default read/write heads 16
Default cylinders 16,383
Recording density, KBPI (kbits/in max) 1,410
Track density, KTPI (ktracks/in avg.) 200
Areal density, (Gbits/in2 avg) 283
Spindle speed (RPM) 7,200
Internal data transfer rate (Mbits/sec max) 1,136
Sustained data transfer rate OD (Mbytes/sec max) 95
I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 300
ATA data-transfer modes supported PIO modes 0–4
Cache buffer 32 Mbytes
Height (mm max) 14.8 mm (0.583 inches)
Width (mm max) 70.0 mm (2.76 inches)
Length (mm max) 100.5 mm (3.957 inches)
Weight (max) 196 grams (0.43 lbs) 188 grams (0.41 lbs)
Average latency 4.16 msec
Power-on to ready (sec max) 20 sec
Standby to ready (sec max) 6 sec 4 sec
Track-to-track seek time (msec typical) 0.5 read; 0.7 write
Average seek, read (msec typical) 8.0
Average seek, write (msec typical) 8.4
Startup current (typical) 12V (peak) 2.0 amps
Voltage tolerance (including noise) 5V ± 5%
Ambient temperature 5° to 55°C (operating)
Temperature gradient (°C per hour max) 20°C (operating)
Relative humidity 5% to 95% (operating)
Relative humidity gradient 20% per hour max
Wet bulb temperature (°C max) 37.7 (operating)
Altitude, operating –60.96 m to 3,048 m
Altitude, nonoperating
(below mean sea level, max)
Operational Shock (max at 2 msec) 70 Gs
Non-Operational Shock (max at 2 msec) 400 Gs
Multiword DMA modes 0–2
Ultra DMA modes 0–6
12V ± 5%
–40° to 70°C (nonoperating)
20°C (nonoperating)
5% to 95% (nonoperating)
40.0 (nonoperating)
(–200 ft. to 10,000+ ft.)
–60.96 m to 12,192 m
(–200 ft. to 40,000+ ft.)
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Drive specification ST9500530NS ST9160511NS
Vibration, operating 5–22 Hz: 0.25 Gs, Limited displacement
Vibration, nonoperating 5–500 Hz: 3.0 Gs
Drive acoustics, sound power (bels)
Active 2.6 (typical) 2.5 (typical)
Idle** 2.3 (typical) 2.1 (typical)
Nonrecoverable read errors 1 sector per 10
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.73%
Warranty To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access
Motor start-stop cycles
(25°C, 50% rel. humidity)
Supports Hotplug operation per
Serial ATA Revision 2.5 specification
*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment
and formatting.
**During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and
power to operational levels.
22–350 Hz: 0.50 Gs
350–500 Hz: 0.25 Gs
15
bits read
the following web page:
From this page, click on the “Verify Your Warranty” link. You will be asked to
provide the drive serial number, model number (or part number) and country
of purchase. The system will display the warranty information for your drive.
50,000
Ye s
www.seagate.com/support/service/
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2.2 Formatted capacity
Model
ST9500530NS 500 Gbytes 976,773,168
ST9160511NS 160 Gbytes 312,581,808
*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment
and formatting.
Formatted
capacity*
Guaranteed
sectors
Bytes per sector
512
2.2.1 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 48bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes.
2.3 Default logical geometry
Cylinders Read/write heads Sectors per track
16,383 16 63
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.
2.4 Recording and interface technology
Interface Serial ATA (SATA)
Recording method Perpendicular
Recording density, KBPI (kbit
Track density, KTPI (ktracks/inch avg) 200
Areal density (Gbits/inch
Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%) 7,200
Internal data transfer rate (Mbits/sec max) 1,136
Sustained data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 95
I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 300 (Ultra DMA mode 5)
s/inch max) 1,410
2
avg) 283
500GB 160GB
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2.5 Physical characteristics
Maximum height 14.8 mm (0.583 inches)
Maximum width 70.0 mm (2.76 inches)
Maximum length 100.5 mm (3.957 inches)
Max weight
ST9500530NS 196 grams (0.43 lbs)
ST9160511NS 188 grams (0.41 lbs)
Cache buffer 32 Mbytes (32,768 kbytes)
2.6 Seek time
Seek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient 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
• Average seek time is a true statistical random avera
random tracks, less overhead.
*Typical seek times (msec) Read Write
Track-to-track 0.5 0.7
Average 8.0 8.4
possible single-track seeks in both directions.
ge of at least 5,000 measurements of seeks between
Full Stroke 17.4 17.9
Average latency: 4.16
*Measured in performance mode.
Note. Th
ese 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 the noted
values. However, due to the manner in which these drives are formatted, benchmark tests that
include command overhead or measure logical seeks may produce results that vary from these
specifications.
2.7 Start/stop times
ST9500530NS ST9160511NS
Power-on to Ready (sec) 20 (max)
Standby to Ready (sec) 6 (max) 4 (max)
Ready to spindle stop (sec) 20 (max)
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2.8 Power specifications
%
The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. See Figure 4 on page 20.
2.8.1 Power consumption
Power requirements for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. Typical power measurements are based on
n average of drives tested, under nominal conditions, using 5.0V and 12.0V input voltage at 25°C ambient
a
temperature.
• Spinup power
Spinup power is measured from the time of power-on to
speed.
• Standby mode
During Standby mode, the drive accepts commands, but th
write electronics are in power-down mode.
Table 2: DC power requirements
Parameter
Voltage +5 V +12 V Power +5 V +12 V Power
Regulation +/-5% +/-5% (watts) +/-5% +/-5
Average Idle Current 0.28 0.11 2.69 0.29 0.11 2.71
Advanced Idle Current
Idle_A 0.24 0.10 2.42 0.24 0.10 2.45
Idle_B 0.14 0.08 1.71 0.15 0.08 1.72
Idle_C 0.14 0.05 1.37 0.15 0.05 1.38
Standby 0.16 0.02 1.05 0.17 0.02 1.06
Average Sleep Current 0.16 0.02 1.06 0.16 0.02 1.03
Maximum Start Current:
DC (Peak DC) 0.39 0.64 9.64 0.40 0.65 9.77
AC (Peak AC) 0.73 1.50 21.59 0.72 1.55 22.25
Delayed Motor Start (DC max) 0.16 0.03 1.12 0.17 0.02 1.08
Peak Operating Current (random read):
Typical DC 0.29 0.13 3.05 0.30 0.14 3.11
Maximum DC 0.29 0.15 3.22 0.30 0.15 3.30
Maximum DC (peak) 0.84 0.52 10.44 0.84 0.56 10.92
Peak Operating Current (random write):
Typical DC 0.34 0.14 3.42 0.35 0.14 3.49
Maximum DC 0.36 0.14 3.50 0.36 0.15 3.59
Maximum DC (peak) 1.02 0.58 12.06 1.02 0.60 12.30
Peak operating current (sequential read):
Typical DC 0.58 0.12 4.27 0.58 0.12 4.33
Maximum DC 0.59 0.12 4.35 0.60 0.12 4.44
Maximum DC (peak) 0.82 0.22 6.74 0.84 0.22 6.84
Peak operating current (sequential write):
Typical DC 0.63 0.12 4.52 0.64 0.12 4.59
Maximum DC 0.67 0.12 4.77 0.68 0.12 4.84
Maximum DC (peak) 1.04 0.20 7.60 1.06 0.20 7.70
*During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and
power to operational levels.
the time that the drive spindle reaches operating
e drive is not spinning, and the servo and read/
ST9500530NS ST9500530NS
(1.5GB) (3.0GB)
(w atts)
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