seagate ST32000542AS, ST31500541AS, ST31000520AS User Manual

Product Manual

Barracuda LP Series SATA

ST32000542AS ST31500541AS ST31000520AS

100564361 Rev. D November 2009

Revision history

Revision Date Sheets affected or comments

Rev. A 04/16/09 Initial release. Rev. B 06/08/09 4 & 11. Rev. C 09/01/09 28. (add command - write uncorrectable = 45h); 11. (DC pwr req.

update Idle Watts);1, 3, 8-9, 11, 14, 22 & 28. (remove 500GB model);

28. (Word 75 & 81 edit code);5. (corrected Non-Op shock value)

Rev. D 11/18/09 Updated drive specifications on Tables 1 -3; added “Warranty”

specific section. Made minor text edits throughout.

Copyright © 2009 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100564361, Rev. D November 2009 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC

in the United States and/or other countries. Barracuda LP Series, SeaTools and SeaTDD are either trade marks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affil iated 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 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 measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other func tions, and thus will not be available for data storage. 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 Formatted capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.1.1 LBA mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.2 Default logical geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.3 Recording and interface technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.4 Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.5 Access time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.6 Start/stop times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.7 Power specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.7.1 Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.7.2 Conducted noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.7.3 Voltage tolerance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.7.4 Power-management modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.8 Environmental specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.8.1 Ambient temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.8.2 Temperature gradient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.8.3 Humidity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.8.4 Altitude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.8.5 Shock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.8.6 Vibration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.9 Acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.9.1 Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.10 Electromagnetic immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.11 Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.12 Agency certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.12.1 Safety certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.12.2 Electromagnetic compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.12.3 FCC verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.13 Environmental protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.13.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive. . . . . 19

2.13.2 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.14 Corrosive environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3.2 Configuring the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3.4 Drive mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Figure 2. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Figure 3. Mounting dimensions (2.0, 1.5 and 1. 0 TB mo d els ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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1.0 Introduction

This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda

ST32000542AS ST31500541AS ST31000520AS These drives provide the following key features:

• 5900 RPM spindle speed.

• High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 300MB 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.

• Compliant with RoHS requirements in China and Europe.

• 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.

LP Series 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 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.

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 content s of the traditio nal device regi sters, 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 2.6”. 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:

ST32000542AS ST31500541AS ST31000520AS 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 2000 and 1500GB models

Drive specification ST32000542AS ST31500541AS

Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)*

Guaranteed sectors 3,907,029,168 2,930,277,168 Heads 8 Disk 4 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,383 Recording density (max.) 1417kb/in Track density (avg.) 236 ktracks/in Areal density (avg.) 341.5 Gbits/in Spindle speed 5900 RPM Internal data transfer rate (max.) 1285Mb/s Sustained data transfer rate OD (max.) 95MB/s I/O data-transfer rate (max.) 300MB/s ATA data-transfer modes supported PIO modes: 0 to 4

Cache buffer 32MB Height (max) 26.1mm / 1.028 in Width (max) 101.85mm / 4.010 in Length (max) 146.99mm / 5.787 in Weight (typical) 655g / 1.444 lb Average latency 5.1ms Power-on to ready (typical) <13s

Standby to ready (typical)

Track-to-track seek time (typical) <1.0ms (read)

Average read (typical) Average write (typical)

Startup current (typical) 12V (peak) 2.0A Voltage tolerance (including noise) 5V ± 5%

Operating temperature (Drive Case temperature)

Nonoperating temperature (Ambient) –40° to 70°C Temperature gradient (max) 20°C per hour max (operating)

Relative humidity 5% to 90% (operating)

Relative humidity gradient (max.) 30% per hour Wet bulb temperature (max.) 37.7°C (operating)

Altitude, operating –60.96m to 3,048m

Altitude, nonoperating (below mean sea level, max)

2000GB 1500GB

Multiword DMA modes: 0 to 2 Ultra DMA modes: 0 to 6

<12s

<1.2ms (write) <16.0ms

<16.0ms

12V ± 10% 0° to 60°C

30°C per hour max (nonoperating)

5% to 95% (nonoperating)

40.0°C (nonoperating)

(–200 ft to 10,000+ ft) –60.96m to 12,192m

(–200 ft to 40,000+ ft)

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Drive specification ST32000542AS ST31500541AS

Operational Shock (max) 70 Gs at 2ms Non-Operational Shock (max) 300 Gs at 2ms Vibration, operating 5 to 350 Hz: 0.50 Gs

Vibration, nonoperating 5 to 350 Hz: 5.0 Gs

Drive acoustics, sound power Idle** 2.5 bels (typical)

Seek Profile 2.6 bels (typical)

Nonrecoverable read errors 1 per 10 Warranty To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the following

Contact start-stop cycles 50,000 at 25°C, 50% rel. humidity Supports Hotplug operation per the

Serial ATA Revision 2.6 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 a ctivity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may incr ease acoustic and

power to operational levels.

350 to 500 Hz: 0.25 Gs

350 to 500 Hz: 2.0 Gs

2.6 bels (max)

2.8 bels (max)

bits read

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.

Yes

support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp

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Table 2: Drive specifications summary for 1000GB models

Drive specification ST31000520AS

Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)*

Guaranteed sectors 1,953,525,168 Heads 4 Disks 2 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,383 Recording density (max) 1417kbits/in Track density (avg) 236 ktracks/in avg Areal density (avg) 341.5Gb/in2 avg Spindle speed 5900 RPM Internal data transfer rate (max) 1285Mb/s Sustained data transfer rate OD (max) 95MB/s I/O data-transfer rate (max) 300MB/s ATA data-transfer modes supported PIO modes: 0 to 4

Cache buffer 32MB Height (max) 26.1mm / 1.028 in Width (max) 101.85mm / 4.010 in Length (max) 146.99mm / 5.787 in Weight (typical) 622g / 1.371 lb Average latency 5.1ms Power-on to ready (typical) <12s Standby to ready (typical) <6s Track-to-track seek time <1.0ms (read)

Average read (typical) Average write (typical)

Startup current (typical) 12V (peak) 2.0A Voltage tolerance (including noise) 5V ± 5%

Operating temperature (Drive Case temperature)

Nonoperating temperature (Ambient) –40° to 70°C Temperature gradient (max) 20°C per hour (operating)

Relative humidity 5% to 90% (operating)

Relative humidity gradient (max) 30% per hour Wet bulb temperature (max) 37.7°C max (operating)

Altitude, operating –60.96m to 3,048m

Altitude, nonoperating (below mean sea level, max)

Operational Shock (max) 70 Gs at 2ms

1000GB

Multiword DMA modes: 0 to 2 Ultra DMA modes: 0 to 6

<1.2ms (write) <16.0ms

<16.0ms

12V ± 10% 0° to 60°C

30°C per hour (nonoperating)

5% to 95% (nonoperating)

40.0°C max (nonoperating)

(–200 ft to 10,000+ ft) –60.96m to 12,192m

(–200 ft. to 40,000+ ft.)

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Drive specification ST31000520AS

Non-Operational Shock (max.) 350 Gs at 2ms Vibration, operating 5 to 350 Hz: 0.50 Gs

Vibration, nonoperating 5 to 350 Hz: 5.0 Gs

Drive acoustics, sound power Idle** 1.9 bels (typical)

Seek Profile 2.0 bels (typical)