Seagate NL35 SERIES SATA DATASHEET
NL35 Series SATA
Nearline RAID-ready 500GB, 400GB and 250GB SATA disc drives
Massive capacity, high reliability and RAID-friendly integration make the NL35 Series SATA ideal
for capacity-intensive RAID storage applications
Key Advantages
• RAID-friendly integration features increase system uptime, optimize performance and ease management
• Superior reliability enables operation in 24x7 RAID environments
• Industry’s highest capacity ensures maximum scalability in dynamic, capacity-intensive RAID storage systems
• Leverages SAS compatibility with SATA to enable tiered storage systems that can be tuned to meet a wide range of performance and capacity points
Best Fit Applications
• RAID storage arrays
• Storage Area Networks (SAN)
• Network Attached Storage (NAS)
• Enterprise backup and restore systems
• Video archiving and distribution systems
• Fixed content storage
Reliable, HighCapacity SATA
Drives Optimized for
RAID Storage
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their respective owners. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating
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Nearline RAID-Ready
• Higher reliability to meet demands of 24x7
RAID storage applications
• Seagate proprietary Workload Management
technology protects drives from extreme
workloads to optimize drive reliability
• NCQ (Native Command Queuing) combines
with 8- or 16-Mbyte cache memory to
ensure more efficient processing of peak
workloads
Integration-Friendly
• Speaks the “language” of complex system
controllers and hosts to simplify system
integration, improve RAID performance and
reduce drive failures
• Offers industry’s most comprehensive set of
RAID integration features, including Error
Recovery Control, One-Step Microcode
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NL35 Series SATA
Nearline RAID-ready 500GB, 400GB and 250GB SATA* disc drives
Model Number
Interface/External Transfer Rate (Mbytes/sec)
Performance
Spindle Speed (RPM)
Average Latency (msec)
Seek Time
Average Read/Write (msec)
Track-to-Track Read/Write (msec)
Transfer Rate
Maximum Internal (Mbits/sec)
Maximum Internal Formatted (Mbytes/sec)
Maximum Sustained (Mbytes/sec)
Cache, Multisegmented (Mbytes)
Configuration/Organization
Bytes per Sector
Reliability/Data integrity
Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read
Error Control/Correction (ECC)
Media scanning
Interface ports
Power Management
Typical (watts)
Idle Average (watts)
Standby Average (watts)
Environmental
Temperature, Operating (°C)
Temperature, Nonoperating (°C)
Shock, Operating: 2 msec (Gs)
Shock, Nonoperating: 2 msec (Gs)
Acoustics Idle (bels—sound power)
Rotational Vibration (Rad/sec)
Physical
Height (in/mm)
Width (in/mm)
Depth (in/mm)
Weight (lb/g)
Warranty
Limited warranty (years)
500GB
1
SATA
Specifications
ST3500841NS
ST3500641NS
150
300
7200
4.16
8.0/9.0
0.8/1.0
754
95
65
8, 16
512
1 sector per 10
14
10 bit
Offline Scan
Single
13.0
7.4
0.8
0 to 60
–40 to 70
63
350
2.8
12.5
1/26.11
4/101.85
5.78/146.99
1.4/0.635
5
400GB
1
SATA
ST3400833NS
ST3400633NS
150
300
7200
4.16
8.0/9.0
0.8/1.0
754
95
65
8, 16
512
1 sector per 10
14
10 bit
Offline Scan
Single
9.2
7.7
1.2
0 to 60
–40 to 70
63
300
2.8
8.5
1/26.11
4/101.85
5.78/146.99
1.4/0.635
5
400GB
1
SATA
ST3400832NS
ST3400632NS
150
7200
4.16
8.0/9.0
0.8/1.0
754
95
65
8, 16
512
1 sector per 10
14
10 bit
Offline Scan
Single
9.2
7.7
1.2
0 to 60
–40 to 70
63
300
2.8
8.5
1/26.11
4/101.85
5.78/146.99
1.4/0.635
5
250GB
1
SATA
ST3250824NS
ST3250624NS
150
300
7200
4.16
8.0/9.0
0.8/1.0
754
95
65
8, 16
512
1 sector per 10
14
10 bit
Offline Scan
Single
9.2
7.7
1.2
0 to 60
–40 to 70
63
300
2.8
8.5
1/26.11
4/101.85
5.78/146.99
1.4/0.635
5
250GB
1
SATA
ST3250823NS
ST3250623NS
150
7200
4.16
8.0/9.0
0.8/1.0
754
95
65
8, 16
512
1 sector per 10
14
10 bit
Offline Scan
Single
9.2
7.7
1.2
0 to 60
–40 to 70
63
300
2.8
8.5
1/26.11
4/101.85
5.78/146.99
1.4/0.635
5
1
One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.
*Fibre Channel versions available exclusively through leading storage system manufacturers.
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