Seagate ST32000641AS User Manual

Product Manual

Barracuda XT Series SATA

ST32000641AS

100586689 Rev. C January 2010

Revision history

Revision Date Sheets affected or comments

Rev . A 09/15/2009 Initial release. Rev. B 11/20/2009 Updated drive specifications on Tables 1-3; added “Warranty” specific section. Made

minor text edits throughout.

Rev. C 01/08/2010 Corrected publication part number.

Copyright © 2008-2010 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100586689, Rev. C January 2010 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United

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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 functions, and thus will not be available for data stor age. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications.

Contents

1.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2.0 Drive specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2.1 Formatted capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.1.1 LBA mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.2 Default logical geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.3 Recording and interface technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.4 Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.5 Start/stop times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.6 Power specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.6.1 Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.6.2 Conducted noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.6.3 Voltage tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.6.4 Power management modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.7 Environmental specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.7.1 Ambient temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.7.2 Temperature gradient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.7.3 Humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.7.4 Altitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.7.5 Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.7.6 Vibration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.8 Acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.8.1 Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.9 Electromagnetic immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.10 Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.11 Agency certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.11.1 Safety certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.11.2 Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.11.3 FCC verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.12 Environmental protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.12.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive. . . . . 15

2.12.2 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.13 Corrosive environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.2 Configuring the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.4 Drive mounting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4.1 Hot-Plug compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

4.3 Supported ATA commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4.3.1 Identify Device command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

4.3.2 Set Features command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

5.0 Seagate Technology support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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List of Figures

Figure 1. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Figure 2. Mounting dimensions (2000GB model). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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1.0 Introduction

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

ST32000641AS These drives provide the following key features:

• The SATA 6Gb/s interface enables the use of the industry’s newest and fastest hard drive controllers while providing backward compatibility to legacy SATA 1.5Gb/s or 3Gb/s systems.

• 7,200 RPM spindle speed.

• High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 600MB 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.

• 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.

XT 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 pr oviding legacy so ftware 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-p oint configuratio n with the Serial ATA host adap ter. There is no master/slave relationship with Serial ATA devices like there is with parallel ATA. If two drives are attached on on e 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 addr esses. 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 a ddi tional in form ation 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:

ST32000641AS The specification summaries listed in the following tables are for quick refe rence. For details on specification measur e-

ment or definition, see the appropriate section of this manual.

Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 2000GB models

Drive specification ST32000641AS

Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* 2000GB Guaranteed sectors 3,907,029,168 Heads 8 Disks 4 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,383 Recording density 1421 kb/in Track density(avg) 240 ktracks/in Areal density (avg) 347Gb/in Spindle speed 7200 RPM Internal data transfer rate (max) 1300Mb/s Sustained data transfer rate OD(max) 138MB/s I/O data-transfer rate (max) 600MB/s ATA data-transfer modes supported PIO modes: 0 to 4

Multiword DMA modes: 0 to 2

Ultra DMA modes 0 to 6 Cache buffer 64MB Height (max) 26.1mm / 1.028 in Width (max) 101.85mm / 4.010 in Length (max) 146.99mm / 5.787 in Weight (typical) 700g / 1.543 lb Average latency 4.16ms Power-on to ready (typical) 15s Standby to ready (typical) 15s Startup current (typical) 12V (peak) 2.8A

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Drive specification ST32000641AS

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 95% (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) 63 Gs at 2ms Non-Operational Shock (max) 300 Gs at 2ms Vibration, operating 5 to 350Hz: 0.50 Gs

Vibration, nonoperating 5 to 350Hz: 5.0 Gs

Drive acoustics, sound power Idle** 2.7 bels (typical)

Performance 2.9 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 web

Load-unload cycles 300,000 at 25°C, 50% rel. humidity Supports Hotplug operation per the

Serial ATA Revision 2.6 specification

12V + 10%

0° to 60°C

30°C per hour max (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)

350 to 500Hz: 0.25 Gs

350 to 500Hz: 2.0 Gs

2.9 bels (max)

3.3 bels (max)

bits read

page:

support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp

From this page, click on the “Verify Your Warranty” link. Y ou will be asked to provide the drive serial number, model number (or part number) and country of purchase. The system will display the war ranty information for your drive.

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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2.1 Formatted capacity

Model

ST32000641AS 2000GB 3,907,029,168 512

*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depe nding on operating environment and

formatting.

Formatted capacity*

Guaranteed sectors

Bytes per sector

2.1.1 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 info rmation about 48 -bit address-

ing support of drives with capacities over 137GB.

2.2 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.

2.3 Recording and interface technology

Interface Serial ATA (SATA) Recording method Perpendicular Recording density (kbits/inch max) 1421kb/in Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 240 ktracks/in

Areal density (Gbits/inch Spindle speed (RPM) 7200 + 0.2% Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max) 1300Mb/s Sustained data transfer rate (MB/s max) 138MB/s I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max) 600MB/s

avg) 347Gb/in

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2.4 Physical characteristics

ST32000641AS

Maximum height 26.1mm / 1.028 in Maximum width 101.85mm / 4.010 in Maximum length 146.99mm / 5.787 in Typical weight 700g / 1.543 lb Cache buffer 64 MB (6 4,768kb)

2.5 Start/stop times

Power-on to ready (s) max. 15.0 Standby to ready (s) max. 15.0 Ready to spindle stop (s) max. 20.0

2000GB model

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2.6 Power specifications

The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. See Figure 1 on page 17.

2.6.1 Power consumption

Power requirements for the drives are listed in the table on page 9. Typical power measurements are based on an avera

ge of drives tested, under nominal conditions, using 5.0V and 12.0V input voltage at 25°C ambient temperature.

• Spinup power

Spinup power is me asured from the time of power-on to th

• Seek mode

During seek mode, the read/write actuator a rm moves towar d a cute a read or write operation. Servo electronics ar e active. Seek mode powe r represents the worst-case power consumption, using only random seeks with read or write latency time. This mode is not typical and is provided for worstcase information.

• Read/write power and current

Read/write power is measured with the head

s on track, based on a 16-sector write followed by a 32-ms delay, then a

16-sector read followed by a 32-ms delay.

• Operating power and current

Operating power is measured using 40 percent random seeks, 40 percent read/write mode (1 write for each 10 reads)

nd 20 percent drive idle mode.

e time that the drive spindle reaches operating speed.

specific position on the disk surface and does not exe-

• Idle mode power

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 n

ot spinning, and the servo and read/write elec-

tronics are in power-down mode.

Table 2: DC power requirements

Power dissipation Avg (watts 25° C ) Avg 5V typ amps Avg 12V typ amps

Spinup — — 2. 8 (p ea k) Idle* † 6.39 0.27 0.42 Operating (average) 9.23 0.31 0.64 Standby 0.57 0.09 0.01 Sleep 0.57 0.09 0.01

*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.

†5W IDLE with DIPLM Enabled

Note. Drive supports PHY layer power management. When enabled, a power savings of ~300mw can be achieved in idle,

standby and sleep modes.

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