Seagate ST3500321CS, ST3160310CS, ST3320310CS, ST3500422CS, ST3320410CS User Manual

Product Manual

Pipeline HD Series SATA

ST3500321CS

ST3500422CS

ST3320310CS

ST3320410CS

ST3160310CS

100504234 Rev. C October 2008

Revision history

Revision Date Sheets affected or comments

Rev. A 04/30/08 Initial release. Rev. B 10/02/08 fc, 1, 3-9, 16, 21-22 and 29. Rev. C 10/20/08 1, 11, 18, 25-26 and 28-30.

Publication number: 100504234, Rev. C October 2008

Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Pipeline HD Series, SeaTools and SeaTDD are either trade marks 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.

When referring to hard 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 measure ment 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 storage. 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 Specification summary tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2.2 Formatted capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.2.1 LBA mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.3 Default logical geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.4 Recording and interface technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.5 Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.6 Seek time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.7 Start/stop times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.8 Power specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.8.1 Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.8.2 Conducted noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.8.3 Voltage tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.8.4 Power-management modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.9 Environmental specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.9.1 Drive case temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.9.2 Temperature gradient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.9.3 Humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.9.4 Altitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.9.5 Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.9.6 Vibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.10 Acoustics emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.11 Electromagnetic immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.12 Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.13 Agency certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.13.1 Safety certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.13.2 Electromagnetic compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.13.3 FCC verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.14 Environmental protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.14.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive . . . . . 18

2.15 Corrosive environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.2 Configuring the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3.4 Drive mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Figure 2. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Figure 3. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Figure 4. Mounting dimensions (for 500 GB models). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Figure 5. Mounting dimensions (for 320 and 160 GB models). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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1.0 Introduction

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

ST3500321CS ST3500422CS ST3320310CS ST3320410CS ST3160310CS

These drives provide the following key features:

• High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 300 Mbytes per second).

• 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.

• 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.

Series model drive:

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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 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 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 model:

ST3500321CS ST3500422CS ST3320310CS ST3320410CS ST3160310CS

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.

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Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 500 Gbyte models

Drive specification ST3500422CS ST3500321CS

Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)*

Guaranteed sectors 976,773,168

Heads 4

Disks 2

Bytes per sector 512

Default sectors per track 63

Default read/write heads 16

Default cylinders 16,383

Recording density 1,020 kbits/in max

Track density 173 ktracks/in avg

Areal density 176 Gbits/in2 avg

Internal data transfer rate 980 Mbits/sec max

Sustained data transfer rate 90 Mbytes/sec max

I/O data-transfer rate 300 Mbytes/sec max

ATA data-transfer modes supported PIO modes 0–4

Cache buffer 16 Mbytes 8 Mbytes

Height (max) 26.1 mm (1.028 inches)

Width (max) 101.85 mm (4.010 inches)

Length (max) 146.99 mm (5.787 inches)

Weight (typical) 572 grams (1.261 lb.)

Avg. latency 5.1 msec

Power-on to ready <12 sec typ

Standby to ready <12 sec typ

Track-to-track seek time <1.0 msec typical read;

Average seek, read <14.0 msec typical

Average seek, write <15.0 msec typical

Startup current (typical) 12V (peak) 2.0 amps

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 30% per hour max

Wet bulb temperature (max) 37.7°C max (operating)

Altitude, operating –60.96 m to 3,048 m

Altitude, nonoperating (below mean sea level, max)

Operational Shock 70 Gs at 2 msec max

500 Gbytes

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

<1.2 msec typical write

12V ± 10%

0° to 75°C

30°C per hour max (nonoperating)

5% to 95% (nonoperating)

40.0°C max (nonoperating)

(–200 ft. to 10,000+ ft.)

–60.96 m to 12,192 m (–200 ft. to 40,000+ ft.)

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Drive specification ST3500422CS ST3500321CS

Non-Operational Shock 300 Gs at 2 msec max

Vibration, operating 5–22 Hz: 0.25 Gs, Limited displacement

Vibration, nonoperating 5–350 Hz: 5.0 Gs

Drive acoustics, sound power

Idle** 2.1 bels (typical)

CE Seek Profile 2.4 bels (typical)

Nonrecoverable read errors 1 per 10

Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.62%

Warranty To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the following web

Contact start-stop cycles 50,000 at 25°C, 50% rel. humidity

Supports Hotplug operation per the Serial ATA Revision 2.5 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 activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and

power to operational levels.

22–350 Hz: 0.50 Gs 350–500 Hz:: 0.25 Gs

350–500 Hz:: 1.0 Gs

2.3 bels (max)

2.5 bels (max)

bits read

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 dis play the warranty information for your drive.

Yes

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Table 2: Drive specifications summary for 320 and 160 Gbyte models

Drive specification ST3320410CS ST3320310CS ST3160310CS

Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)*

Guaranteed sectors 625,142,448 312,581,808

Heads 2 1

Disks 1 1

Bytes per sector 512

Default sectors per track 63

Default read/write heads 16

Default cylinders 16,383

Recording density 1,242 kbits/in max

Track density 173 ktracks/in avg

Areal density 215 Gbits/in2 avg

Internal data transfer rate 1,201 Mbits/sec max

Sustained data transfer rate 90 Mbytes/sec max

I/O data-transfer rate 300 Mbytes/sec max

ATA data-transfer modes supported PIO modes 0–4

Cache buffer 16 Mbytes 8 Mbytes

Height (max) 20.20 mm (0.795 inches)

Width (max) 101.85 mm (4.010 inches)

Length (max) 146.99 mm (5.787 inches)

Weight (typical) 415 grams (0.915 lb.)

Avg. latency 5.1 msec

Power-on to ready <6 sec typ

Standby to ready <6 sec typ

Track-to-track seek time <1.0 msec typical read;

Average seek, read <14.0 msec typical

Average seek, write <15.0 msec typical

Startup current (typical) 12V (peak) 2.0 amps

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 30% per hour max

Wet bulb temperature (max) 37.7°C max (operating)

Altitude, operating –60.96 m to 3,048 m

Altitude, nonoperating (below mean sea level, max)

Operational Shock 70 Gs at 2 msec max

320 Gbytes 160 Gbytes

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

<1.2 msec typical write

12V ± 10%

0° to 75°C

30°C per hour max (nonoperating)

5% to 95% (nonoperating)

40.0°C max (nonoperating)

(–200 ft. to 10,000+ ft.)

–60.96 m to 12,192 m (–200 ft. to 40,000+ ft.)

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Drive specification ST3320410CS ST3320310CS ST3160310CS

Non-Operational Shock 350 Gs at 2 msec max

Vibration, operating 5–22 Hz: 0.25 Gs, Limited displacement

Vibration, nonoperating 5–350 Hz: 5.0 Gs

Drive acoustics, sound power

Idle** 1.9 bels (typical)

CE Seek Profile 2.3 bels (typical)

Nonrecoverable read errors 1 per 10

Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.62%

Warranty To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the following web

Contact start-stop cycles 50,000 at 25°C, 50% rel. humidity

Supports Hotplug operation per the Serial ATA Revision 2.5 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 activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and

power to operational levels.

22–350 Hz: 0.50 Gs 350–500 Hz:: 0.25 Gs

350–500 Hz:: 1.0 Gs

2.1 bels (max)

2.4 bels (max)

bits read

page:

support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp

Yes

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2.2 Formatted capacity

Model

ST3500321CS ST3500422CS

ST3320310CS ST3320410CS

ST3160310CS 160 Gbytes 312,581,808 512

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

and formatting.

Formatted capacity*

500 Gbytes 976,773,168 512

320 Gbytes 625,142,448 512

Guaranteed sectors

Bytes per sector

2.2.1 LBA mode

When addressing the drive 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 logical geometry

Cylinders Read/write heads Sectors per track

16,383 16 63

LBA mode

When addressing the drive 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

500 GB models 320 and 160 GB model

Interface Serial ATA (SATA)

Recording method Perpendicular

Recording density (kbits/inch max) 1,020 kbits/in max 1,242 kbits/in max

Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 173 ktracks/in avg

Areal density (Gbits/inch2 avg) 176 Gbits/in2 avg 215 Gbits/in2 avg

Internal data transfer rate (Mbits/sec max) 980 Mbits/sec max 1,201 Mbits/sec max

Sustained data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 90

I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 300

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