Seagate ST1500VM002, ST2000VM002 User Manual
Product Manual
Pipeline HD
ST2000VM002
ST1500VM002
®
100633414
Rev. B
January 2011
Document Revision History
Revision Date Description of changes
Rev. A 07/12/2010 Initial release.
Rev. B 01/07/2011 Added to the feature list; updated specifications
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Contents
Seagate Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.1 About the Serial ATA Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.0 Drive Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.1 Specification summary tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.2 Formatted capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2.1 LBA mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.3 Default logical geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.4 Recording and interface technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.5 Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.6 Seek time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.7 Start/stop times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.8 Power specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.8.1 Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.8.2 Conducted noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.8.3 Voltage tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.8.4 Power-management modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.9 Environmental specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.9.1 Drive case temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.9.2 Temperature gradient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.9.3 Humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.9.4 Altitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.9.5 Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.9.6 Vibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.10 Acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.10.1 Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.11 Electromagnetic immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.12 Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.13 Agency certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.13.1 Safety certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.13.2 Electromagnetic compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.13.3 FCC verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.14 Environmental protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.14.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive . . . . . 22
2.14.2 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.15 Corrosive environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.0 Configuring and Mounting the Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.2 Configuring the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.4 Drive mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.0 Serial ATA Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.1 Hot-Plug compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.3 Supported ATA commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.3.1 Identify Device command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4.3.2 Set Features command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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Figures
Figure 1 Typical Current Profiles (5V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Figure 2 Typical Current Profiles (12V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Figure 3 Attaching SATA cabling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Figure 4 Mounting dimensions (2000 and 1500GB models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B
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Available services include:
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1.0 Introduction
This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate
Pipeline HD® SATA model drives:
ST2000VM002 ST1500VM002
These drives provide the following key features:
• 5900 RPM spindle speed
• High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates with a default of 3Gb/s. Limit settings to 1.5Gb/s are available via
S.M.A.R.T. Command Transport command.
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring and reporting
• Perpendicular recording, Tunneling Magnetoresistive (TMR) recording heads and EPRML technology, for
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
• Compliant with RoHS requirements in China and Europe
• SeaTools diagnostic software performs a drive self-test that eliminates unnecessary drive returns.
• Supports latching SATA cables and connectors
• Worldwide Name (WWN) capability uniquely identifies the drive.
• Supports Trusted Send/Receive Security Protocol
• Reliability for 24×7 video applications
• Supports ATA8 streaming commands
• Supports power-up in the standby feature
• Supports Trusted Send/Receive Security Protocol
• Performance-tuned for seamless video applications
• Built-in error recovery for non-stop video streaming
• Best-in-class acoustic performance means virtually silent operation
• Enhanced caching capabilities enable superior video recording quality.
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.
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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 disk drive in your current system
and expect all of your existing applications to work as normal.
The Serial ATA interface connects each disk 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.
The host adapter may, optionally, emulate a master/slave environment to host software where two
Note
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 International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 3.0”. The specification can be
downloaded from www.sata-io.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:
ST2000VM002 ST1500VM002
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.
Table 1 Drive specifications summary for 2000GB and 1500GB Models
Drive specification ST2000VM002 ST1500VM002
Formatted capacity (4K/sector)*
Guaranteed sectors
Heads
Disks
Bytes per sector
Default sectors per track
Default read/write heads
Default cylinders
Recording density (max)
Track density (avg)
Areal density (avg)
Spindle speed
Internal data transfer rate (max)
Sustained data transfer rate OD
I/O data-transfer rate
ATA data-transfer modes supported
Cache buffer
Height (max)
Width (max)
Length (max)
Weight (typical)
Average latency
2000GB 1500GB
3,907,029,168 2,930,277,168
66
33
4K
(512 bytes per sector emulated
at the interface)
63 63
16 16
16,383 16,383
1632kb/in 1632kb/in
274ktracks/in 274 ktracks/in
422Gb/in
5900 RPM 5900 RPM
1928Mb/s 1928Mb/s
144MB/s 144MB/s
300MB/s 300MB/s
26.1mm / 1.028 in 26.1mm / 1.028 in
101.6mm / 4.0 in
(± 0.010 in)
147.00mm / 5.78 in 147.00mm / 5.78 in
635g / 1.39 lb 635g / 1.39 lb
2
PIO modes: 0 to 4
Multiword DMA modes: 0 to 2
Ultra DMA modes: 0 to 6
64MB 64MB
4.16ms 4.16ms
(512 bytes per sector emulated
at the interface)
422Gb/in
101.6mm / 4.0 in
(± 0.010 in)
4K
2
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Table 1 Drive specifications summary for 2000GB and 1500GB Models (Continued)
Drive specification ST2000VM002 ST1500VM002
Power-on to ready (max)
Standby to ready (max)
Track-to-track seek time (typical)
Average seek (typical)
Startup current (typical) 12V (peak)
Voltage tolerance
(including noise)
Ambient temperature
Temperature gradient (max)
Relative humidity
Relative humidity gradient (max)
Wet bulb temperature (max)
Altitude, operating
Altitude, nonoperating
(below mean sea level, max)
Operational Shock (max)
Non-Operational Shock (max)
Vibration, operating
Vibration, nonoperating
Drive acoustics, sound power
Idle**
Seek
Nonrecoverable read errors
Warranty
Load/Unload cycles
Supports Hotplug operation per the
Serial ATA Revision 3.0 specification
<17s <17s
<17s <17s
<1.0ms read;
<1.2ms write
<12ms read;
<13ms write
2.0A 2.0A
5V: ± 5%
12V: ±10%
0° to 75°C (operating)
–40° to 70°C (nonoperating)
20°C per hour (operating)
30°C per hour (nonoperating)
5% to 95% (operating)
5% to 95% (nonoperating)
30% per hour 30% per hour
37.7°C (operating)
40.0°C (nonoperating)
–304.8m to 3,048m
(–1000 ft. to 10,000+ ft.)
–304.8m to 12,192m
(–1000 ft. to 40,000+ ft.)
80 Gs at 2ms 80 Gs at 2ms
300 Gs at 2ms 300 Gs at 2ms
2Hz–22Hz: 0.25 Gs,
Limited displacement
22Hz–350Hz: 0.50 Gs
350Hz–500Hz: 0.25 Gs
5Hz–22Hz: 3.0 Gs
22Hz–350Hz: 3.0 Gs
350Hz–500Hz: 3.0 Gs
2.0 bels (typical)
2.2 bels (max)
2.2 bels (typical)
2.4 bels (max)
14
1 per 10
bits read 1 per 10
<1.0ms read;
<1.2ms write
<12ms read;
<13ms write
5V: ± 5%
12V: ±10%
0° to 75°C (operating)
–40° to 70°C (nonoperating)
20°C per hour (operating)
30°C per hour (nonoperating)
5% to 95% (operating)
5% to 95% (nonoperating)
37.7°C (operating)
40.0°C (nonoperating)
–304.8m to 3,048m
(–1000 ft. to 10,000+ ft.)
–304.8m to 12,192m
(–1000 ft. to 40,000+ ft.)
2Hz–22Hz: 0.25 Gs,
Limited displacement
22Hz–350Hz: 0.50 Gs
350Hz–500Hz: 0.25 Gs
5Hz–22Hz: 3.0 Gs
22Hz–350Hz: 3.0 Gs
350Hz–500Hz: 3.0 Gs
2.0 bels (typical)
2.2 bels (max)
2.2 bels (typical)
2.4 bels (max)
14
bits read
To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the
following web page: support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp
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.
300K at 25°C, 50% rel. humidity
Yes
*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
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2.2 Formatted capacity
Drive Specifications
Model
ST2000VM002
ST1500VM002
*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment
and formatting.
Formatted
capacity*
2000GB 3,907,029,168 4096 (512 bytes per sector emulated at the
1500GB 2,930,277,168 4096 (512 bytes per sector emulated at the
Guaranteed
sectors
Bytes per sector
interface)
interface)
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 48-bit
addressing support of drives with capacities over 137GBs.
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 (max) 1632kb/in
Track density (avg) 274 ktracks/in
Areal density (avg) 422Gb/in
Spindle speed (RPM) 5900 ± 0.2%
Internal data transfer rate (max) 1928Mb/s
Sustained data transfer rate (max) 144MB/s
I/O data-transfer rate (max) 300MB/s
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2.5 Physical characteristics
Maximum height
2000GB and 1500GB models 26.1mm / 1.028 in
Maximum width 101.6mm / 4.0 in (± 0.010 in)
Maximum length 147.00mm / 5.78 in
Typical weight
2000GB and 1500GB models 635g / 1.39 lb
Cache buffer
2000 and 1500GB models 64MB (65,536kb)
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 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.
Typical seek times (ms)
Track-to-track
Average
Average latency
These drives are designed to consistently meet the seek times represented in this manual. Physical
Note
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
Start/stop times @ 25°C
Power-on to ready (max)
Standby to ready (max)
Ready to spindle stop (max)
Read Write
1.0 1.2
12.0 13.0
4.16 4.16
2000 and 1500GB models
<17.0s
<17.0s
10.0s
2.8 Power specifications
The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. (Refer to Figure 3 ).
2.8.1 Power consumption
Power requirements for the drives are listed in Table 2 on page 15. Typical power measurements are based on an
average of drives tested, under nominal conditions, using 5.0V and 12.0V input voltage at 25°C ambient
temperature.
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