Seagate ST3400632NS, ST3250823NS, ST3400832NS, ST3250623NS User Manual

Product Manual

NL35 Series® Serial ATA

ST3400832NS ST3400632NS ST3250823NS ST3250623NS

100367731 Rev . B August 2007

August 2007 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC

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One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on oper ating envi ronme nt and for matting. Seagate reserves the right to chan ge, wi thout 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.5 Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.6 Seek time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.7 Start/stop times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.8 Power specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.8.1 Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.8.2 Conducted noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.8.3 Voltage tolerance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.8.4 Power-management modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.9 Environmental specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.9.1 Ambient temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.9.2 Temperature gradient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.9.3 Humidity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.9.4 Altitude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.9.5 Shock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.9.6 Vibration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.10 Acoustics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.11 Electromagnetic immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.12 Reliability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.13 Agency certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.13.1 Safety certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.13.2 Electromagnetic compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.13.3 FCC verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.14 Environmental protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.15 Corrosive environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.2 Configuring the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.4 Drive mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4.1 Hot-Plug compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

4.3 Supported ATA commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

4.3.1 Identify Device command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

4.3.2 Set Features command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

5.0 Seagate Technology support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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List of Figures

Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Figure 3. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Figure 4. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Figure 5. Mounting dimensions—top, side and end view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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1.0 Introduction

This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate NL35 Series Serial ATA model drives:

NL35 Series Serial ATA

• ST3400832NS

• ST3400632NS

• ST3250823NS

• ST3250623NS These drives provide the following key features:

• 7,200 RPM spindle speed.

• 8 Mbyte buffer on ST3400832NS and ST3250823NS models; 16 Mbyte buffer on ST3400632NS and ST3250623NS models.

• High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 150 Mbytes per second).

• Tunneling Magnetoresistive (TMR) recording heads.

• 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.

• 300 Gs nonoperating shock.

• 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.

• Supports S.M.A.R.T. Command Transport (SCT) to provide enterprise-like features in an industry-accepted transport mechanism. See Section 4.3.3.1 for additional information about SCT.

• Supports the Write Same command to allow large writes without host interface overhead.

• Supports Error Recovery Control to allow the host to put a soft time limit on read and write commands.

• One-Step Microcode Download which allows enterprise clients to download new drive code with a single download command using the host download utility.

• Workload management features to manage drive temperature and activity. This optimizes drive reliability in nearline environments with no user intervention required.

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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 transit io n from pa rallel ATA eas y 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 operatin g 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 cont ai ns a set of registe rs that sha dow the conte nt s of the trad iti onal device r egisters, 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 ST3400832NS, ST3250823NS, ST3400632NS, and ST3250623NS models.

2.1 Specification summary tables

The specifications listed in table 1 are for quick reference. For details on specification measurement or definition, see the appropriate section of this manual.

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T a ble 1: Drive speci ficat ion s

Drive specification ST3400832NS ST3400632NS ST3250823NS ST3250623NS

Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector) 400 250 Guaranteed sectors 781,422,768 488,397,168 Bytes per sector 512 Default sectors per track 63 Default read/write heads 16 Default cylinders 16,383 Recording density in BPI (bits/inch max) 763,000 Track density TPI (tracks/inch avg) 120,000

Areal density (Mbits/inch Spindle speed (RPM) 7,200

avg) 91,560

Internal data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)

Sustained transfer rate OD (Mbytes/sec) 65 I/O data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 150 ATA data-transfer modes supported PIO modes 0–4

SATA data-transfer modes supported 1.5 Gbits/sec Cache buffer 8 Mbytes 16 Mbytes 8 Mbytes 16 Mbytes Height (max) 26.1 1 mm (1.028 inches) Width (max) 101.85 mm (4.010 inches) Length (max) 146.99 mm (5.787 inches) Weight (max) grams / lb. 635 / 1.39 Average latency (msec) 4.16 Power-on to ready (typical) 10 sec St andby to ready (typical) 10 sec Track-to-track seek time (msec typical) 0.8 (read), 1.0 (write) Average seek, read (msec typical) 8.0 Average seek, write (msec typical) 9.0

Multiword DMA modes 0–2 Ultra DMA modes 0–6

Startup current (typical) 12V (peak) 2.8 amps Seek power (typical) watts 9.9 Operating power (typical) watts 9.2 Idle mode (typical) watts 7.71 St andby mode (typical) watts 1.2 Sleep mode 1.2 Voltage tolerance

(including noise) Ambient temperature 0° to 60°C (op.)

5V ± 5% 12V ± 10%

–40° to 70°C (nonop.)

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T a ble 1: Drive speci ficat ion s

Drive specification ST3400832NS ST3400632NS ST3250823NS ST3250623NS

Temperature gradient (°C per hour max)

Relative humidity 5% to 90% (operating)

Relative humidity gradient 30% per hour max Wet bulb temperature

(°C max) Altitude, operating –60.96 m to 3,048 m

Altitude, nonoperating (meters below mean sea level, max)

Shock, operating (max at 2 msec) 63 Gs Shock, nonoperating (max at 2 msec) 300 Gs Vibration, operating 5–22 Hz: Limited displacement

Vibration, nonoperating 5–22 Hz: Limited displacement

Drive acoustics, sound power (bels) Idle* 2.8 (typical)

Performance seek 3.7 (typical)

Nonrecoverable read errors 1 per 10

20°C (operating) 30°C (nonoperating)

5% to 95% (nonoperating)

37.7 (operating)

40.0 (nonoperating)

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

(–200 ft to 40,000

23–350 Hz: 0.5 G acceleration

23–350 Hz: 5 Gs acceleration

3.4 (max)

3.9 (max)

+ ft)

bits read MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) 1,000,000 hours Service life 5 Years Warranty 5 years on distribution units.

To determine the w arranty for a specific drive, use a web browser t o access the following web page:

www.seagate.com/support/service/ 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.

Contact start-stop cycles (25°C, 50% relative humidity)

Supports Hotplug operation per SATA II specification

*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.

50,000

Yes

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2.2 Formatted ca pacity*

Model Formatted capacity Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector

ST3400832NS and ST3400632NS 400 Gbytes 781,422,768 512 ST3250823NS and ST3250623NS 250 Gbytes 488,397,168 512

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

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 logi cal geometr y

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.

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2.4 Recording and int erface tech nology

Interface Serial ATA (SATA) Recording method 16/17 EPRML Recording density BPI (bits/inch max) 763,000 Track density TPI (tracks/inch avg) 120,000 Areal density (Mbits/inch2 avg) 91,560 Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%) 7,200 Internal data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 95 Sustained transfer rate OD (Mbytes/sec max) 65 I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 150 (SATA 1.0) Interleave 1:1 Cache buffer 8 Mbytes (8,192 kbytes) on ST3400832NS and

ST3250823NS models. 16 Mbytes (16,384) on ST3400632NS and

ST3250623NS models.

2.5 Physical characteristics

Maximum he i g ht

(mm) (inches)

Maximum wid th

(mm) (inches)

Maximum length

(mm) (inches)

Maximum wei g h t

(grams) (pounds)

26.11

1.028

101.85

4.010

146.99

5.787

635

1.39

2.6 Seek time

Seek measurem ent s a re t ake n wi th nom inal po w er a t 25 °C amb ient temperature. All tim es a re m easu red 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 (msec) Read Write

Track-to-track 0.8 1.0 Average 8.0 9.0 Average latency: 4.16 4.16

*Measured i n quiet mode Note. These drives ar e de si gned to consisten tl y me et t he se ek t imes r epr esente d in thi s manu al. P hysical

seeks, regardless of mode (such as track-to-track and average), are expected to meet the noted

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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

Power-on to Ready (sec) 10 (max) St andby to Ready (sec) 10 (max) Ready to spindle stop (sec) 12 (max)

2.8 Power specifications

The drive recei ve s D C po we r ( +5V or +12V ) t hrou gh a native SATA po wer connect or. See Figure 4 on p age 18.

2.8.1 Power consumption

Power requiremen ts fo r the drive s are listed i n the t able on pa ge 9. Typical powe r measu rem ent s are ba sed on an average of drives tested, under nominal conditions, using 5.0V and 12.0V input voltage at 25°C ambient temperature.

• Spinup power

Spinup power is measured from the time of power-on to the time that the drive spindle reaches operating speed.

• Seek mode

During seek mode, the read/write actuator arm moves toward a specific position on the disc surface and does not execute a read or write operation. Servo electronics are active. Seek mode power 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 worst-case information.

• Read/write power and current

Read/write power is measured with the heads on track, based on a 16-sector write followed by a 32-msec delay, then a 16-sector read followed by a 32-msec delay.

• Operating power and current

Operating powe r is me asure d usi ng 40 p ercen t ran dom seeks, 4 0 per cent r ead/ wri te m ode ( 1 write for each 10 reads) and 20 percent drive idle mode.

• Idle mode power

Idle mode power is measu red with the drive up to speed, with servo e le ctron ics acti ve and with the he ads i n a random track location.

• Standby mode

During Standby mode, the drive accepts commands, but the drive is not spinning, and the servo and read/ write electronics are in power-down mode.

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