Seagate ST3300831SCE, ST3250823SCE, ST3400832SCE, ST3200826SCE User Manual

Product Manual

DB35 Serial ATA

ST3400832SCE ST3300831SCE ST3250823SCE ST3200826SCE

100362348 Rev . E August 2007

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

in the United States and/or other countries. DB35 Series, SeaTools and SeaTDD are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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 table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2.2 Formatted capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.2.1 LBA mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.3 Default logical geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.4 Recording and interface technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.5 Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.6 Seek time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.7 Start/stop times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.8 Power specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.8.1 Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.8.2 Conducted noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.8.3 Voltage tolerance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.8.4 Power-management modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.9 Environmental specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.9.1 Ambient temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.9.2 Temperature gradient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.9.3 Humidity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.9.4 Altitude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.9.5 Shock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.9.6 Vibration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.10 Acoustics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.11 Electromagnetic immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.12 Reliability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.13 Agency certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.13.1 Safety certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.13.2 Electromagnetic compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.13.3 FCC verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.14 Environmental protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.14.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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

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

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

3.2 Breather filter hole precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.3 Configuring the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.4 Serial ATA cables and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.5 Drive mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Figure 3. Breather filter hole location. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Figure 4. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Figure 5. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Figure 6. Mounting dimensions—top, side and end view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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1.0 Introduction

This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate DB35 Serial ATA (SATA) model drives:

DB35 Serial ATA

• ST3400832SCE

• ST3300831SCE

• ST3250823SCE

• ST3200826SCE These drives provide the following key features:

• Minimal acoustics for consumer storage usage profile.

• Bedroom quiet performance.

• Optimized power for consumer storage devices.

• Spinup current limited to a maximum of 2 amps.

• 7,200 RPM spindle speed.

• 8 Mbyte buffer on: ST3400832SCE, ST3300831SCE, ST3250823SCE, and ST3200826SCE 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.

• 300 Gs nonoperating shock.

• Support for S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring and reporting.

• SeaTools diagnostic software performs a drive self-test that eliminates unnecessary drive returns.

• Supports latching SATA cables and connectors.

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1.1 About the Serial A TA 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 transi tio n from pa rall el 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 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 cont ai ns a set of registe rs that sha dow the conte nts of the traditional 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 ST3400832SCE, ST3300831SCE, ST3250823SCE and ST3200826SCE models.

2.1 Specification summary table

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

T a ble 1: Drive speci ficat ion s

Drive specification ST3400832SCE ST3300831SCE ST3250823SCE ST3200826SCE

Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 400 300 250 200 Guaranteed sectors 781,422,768 586,072,368 488,397,168 390,721,968 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/inch2 avg) 91,560 Spindle speed (RPM) 7,200 Internal data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 95 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 Height (max) 26.11 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

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

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T a ble 1: Drive speci ficat ion s

Drive specification ST3400832SCE ST3300831SCE ST3250823SCE ST3200826SCE

Power-on to ready (typical) 17.0 sec St andby to ready (typical) 16.0 sec Track-to-t r a ck seek time ( ms e c typical) 0.8 (read), 1.0 (write) Average seek (msec typical) 18 (read), 20 (write) St artup current (typical) 12V (peak) 2.0 amps Seek power (typical) 8.6 watts Operating (Consumer Storage Profile) 7.2 watts Idle mode (typical) 6.9 watts St andby mode (typical) 0.80 watts Sleep mode (typical) 0.80 watts Voltage tolerance

(including noise) Ambient temperature 0° to 60°C (operating)

Temperature gradient (°C per hour max)

Relative humidity 5% to 90% (operating)

Relative humidity gradient 30% per hour max

5V ± 5% 12V ± 10%

–40° to 70°C (nonoperating) 20°C (operating)

30°C (nonoperating)

5% to 95% (nonoperating)

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 0.25 G acceleration Vibration, nonoperating 0.25 G (5–22 Hz)

Drive acoustics, sound power (bels) Idle** (bels) 2.6 (typical)

Operational (bels) 2.8 (typical)

Nonrecoverable read errors 1 per 10 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.34% Service life 5 Years Contact start-stop cycles

(25°C, 50% relative humidity)

37.7 (operating)

40.0 (nonoperating)

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

(–200 ft to 40,000+ ft)

5.0 Gs (22–350 Hz)

2.8 (max)

3.0 (max)

bits read

50,000

2.4 (typical)

2.7 (max)

2.8 (typical)

3.0 (max)

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T a ble 1: Drive speci ficat ion s

Drive specification ST3400832SCE ST3300831SCE ST3250823SCE ST3200826SCE

Supports Hotplug operation per SATA II specification

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

and formatting.

**Dur ing per io ds of driv e idle, some offline activity may occur accor di ng to the S.M.A.R. T . speci ficati on , whi ch may i ncrea se ac oustic an d

power to operational levels.

Yes

2.2 Formatted ca pacity

Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector

ST3400832SCE 400 Gbytes 781,422,768 512 ST3300831SCE 300 Gbytes 586,072,368 512 ST3250823SCE 250 Gbytes 488,397,168 512 ST3200826SCE 200 Gbytes 390,721,968 512

*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 interf ac e technology

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) 65.0 I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 150 (SATA 1.0) Interleave 1:1 Cache buffer 8 Mbytes

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 +/- 0.010

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.

T yp ical seek times (msec) Read Write

Track-to-track 0.8 1.0 Average 18 20 Average latency: 4.16 4.16

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 or exceed 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.

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2.7 Start/stop times

Power-on to Ready (sec) 15.5 (max) St andby to Ready (sec) 14.0 (max) Ready to spindle stop (sec) 10 (max)

2.8 Power specifications

The drive receives DC power (+5V and +12V) through a native SATA power connector. See Figure 5 on page 19.

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 power measurements 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.

• Operating power and current

Operating power is measured using a standrad Consumer Storage Profile.

• 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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Table 2: DC power requirements

Power dissipation (typical) Average (watts, 25° C) 5V typ amps 12V typ amps

Spinup — — 2.0 (peak) Idle 6.9 0.353 0.519 Operating (Consumer Storage Profile) 7.2 0. 500 0.400 Seeking 8.6 0.318 0.585 Standby 1.4 0.265 0.006 Sleep 1.4 0.265 0.006

2.8.1.1 Typical current profiles

Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile

Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile

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