Seagate ST8000NE001 User Manual

SATA Product Manual

Standard 512E model

ST8000NE001
ST6000NE000
ST4000NE001

100844774, Rev. G

Gen. 10 March 2020

Document Revision History

Revision Date Pages affected and Description of changes

Rev. A 11/29/2018 Initial release.

fc, 5, 7 & 9: Removed 4TB model - ST4000NE000
7: Update 6TB heads & disks

Rev. B 04/22/2019

7 & 27: Updated weights
8 & 18: Updated Non-op shock to 300 Gs for all capacities
8 & 20: Added (command controlled) to L/UL
bc: Removed APAC & EMEA addresses

Rev. C 05/09/2019

fc, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 25-26 & 31: Removed 2TB model
16: Updated Shock & Vibration section

Rev. D 08/21/2019 7, 15 & 18: Updated or verified text reflects: drive reported temperatures

Rev. E 09/10/2019 fc & 24-25: Added SRS content

7: Updated temperature & humidity gradients

Rev. F 01/07/2020

7 & 13: Updated 5V tolerance to

±5%

27-28: Updated Figure 4 title & added Figure 5.

Rev. G 03/04/2020

19: Section 2.12 - Removed HDD and SSD Regulatory Compliance and Safety reference
24: Updated Figure 4 Mounting configuration dimensions 8TB models (Option 1)

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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

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Contents

Seagate® Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.0 Drive specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.1 Specification summary tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.2 Formatted capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.2.1 LBA mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.3 Recording and interface technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.4 Start/stop times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.5 Power specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.5.1 Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.5.2 Conducted noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.5.3 Voltage tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.5.4 Extended Power Conditions - PowerChoice™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.6 Environmental limits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.6.1 Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.6.2 Humidity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.6.3 Effective Altitude (sea level) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.7 Shock and Vibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.7.1 Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.7.2 Vibration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.8 Acoustics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.9 Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.10 Electromagnetic immunity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.11 Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.11.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.12 HDD and SSD Regulatory Compliance and Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.12.1 Safety certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.12.2 Regulatory Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.13 Corrosive environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.14 Reference documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.15 Product warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.16 Seagate® Rescue™ Data Recovery Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Contents

3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.2 Configuring the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.4 Drive mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.4.1 Mechanical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

4.1 Hot-Plug compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

4.3 Supported ATA commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

4.3.1 Identify Device command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4.3.2 Set Features command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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1.0 Introduction

This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following:
Seagate® IronWolf® Pro Serial ATA model drives:

5xxE Standard models

ST8000NE001 ST4000NE001

ST6000NE000

These drives provide the following key features:

• 7200 RPM spindle speed.

• Full-track multiple-sector transfer capability without local processor intervention.

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

• Native Command Queuing with command ordering to increase performance in demanding applications.

• Perpendicular recording technology provides the drives with increased areal density.

• PowerChoice™ for selectable power savings

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

• State-of-the-art cache and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms.

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

• Supports latching SATA cables and connectors.

• Tarnish-resistant components to help protect drive from environmental elements, increasing field reliability.

• Worldwide Name (WWN) capability uniquely identifies the drive.

Note

Seagate recommends validating the configuration with the selected HBA/
RAID controller manufacturer to ensure use of full capacity is supported.

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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 users to install a Serial ATA host adapter and Serial ATA disk drive in the current system and expect all of the 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.

The host adapter may, optionally, emulate a master/slave environment to host software where two

Note

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.

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 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: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment” specification. The specification can be downloaded from

www.serialata.or

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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:

5xxE Standard models

ST8000NE001 ST4000NE001

ST6000NE000

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.

Table 1 Drive specifications summary

Drive specification

Formatted (512 bytes/sector)

Guaranteed sectors

Heads

Discs

Bytes per logical sector

Bytes per physical sector

Recording density, KBPI (Kb/in max)

Track density, KTPI (ktracks/in, 0 skew)

Areal density, (Gb/in2, @ 0 skew mid-disk)

Spindle speed (RPM)

Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max)

Sustained data transfer rate OD (MiB/s max)

I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max)

ATA data-transfer modes supported

Cache buffer

Weight: (maximum)

Average latency

Power-on to ready (sec) (typ/max)

Standby to ready (sec) (typ/max)

Startup current (typical) 12V (peak)

Voltage tolerance (including noise)

Non-Operating temperature –40° to 70°C (Ambient Temperature, see sections 2.6.1 and 2.11)

Operating temperature

Temperature gradient (°C per hour max)

Relative humidity

Relative humidity gradient 20% per hour max

Altitude, operating

*

#

*

ST8000NE001 ST6000NE000 ST4000NE001

8TB 6TB 4TB

(see Section 2.2)

10 10 8 6

5 5 4 3

512

4096

2509

371

930

7200

2850

200

(214 MB/s max)

600

PIO modes 0–4

Multiword DMA modes 0–2

Ultra DMA modes 0–6

256MB (262,144KB)

716g (1.557 lb) 649g (1.431 lb)

4.16ms

23/30

23/30

2.0A

5V ±5%

12V ±10%

5° to 60°C (Drive Reported Temperature)

20°C (operating)

20°C (nonoperating)

5% to 95% (operating)

5% to 95% (nonoperating)

–304.8 m to 3,048 m

(–1000 ft to 10,000+ ft)

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Drive specification

Altitude, nonoperating
(below mean sea level, max)

ST8000NE001 ST6000NE000 ST4000NE001

–304.8 m to 12,192 m

(–1000 ft to 40,000+ ft)

Operational Shock (max at 2 ms - typical) Read 70 Gs / Write 40 Gs

Non-Operational Shock (max at 2 ms - typical) 300 Gs

5–22 Hz: 0.25 Gs, Limited displacement

Vibration, operating

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

Operation Rotational vibration 20–1500Hz: 12.5 rads/s²

Vibration, nonoperating 10–500 Hz: 5.0 Grms ref

Drive acoustics, sound power (bels)

2.8 (typical)

Idle

During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the

3.0 (max)

SMART specification, which may increase acoustic and power to operational levels.

Performance seek

Nonrecoverable read errors 1 sector per 10

Annualized Failure Rate (AFR)

*

3.2 (typical)

3.4 (max)

15

bits read

0.73% based on 8760 POH

Maximum rate of <300TB/year

Maximum Rated Workload

*

Workloads exceeding the annualized rate may degrade the drive MTBF and impact product
reliability. The Annualized Workload Rate is in units of TB per year, or TB per 8760 power on
hours. Workload Rate = TB transferred * (8760 / recorded power on hours).

To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the following web
page: http://www.seagate.com/support/warranty-and-replacements/.

Warranty

From this page, click on the “Is my Drive under Warranty” link. The following are required to
be provided: the drive serial number, model number (or part number) and country of
purchase.The system will display the warranty information for the drive.

Load-unload cycles (command controlled) 600,000

Supports Hotplug operation per
Serial ATA Revision 3.3 specification

#

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

* See Section 2.11, "Reliability" for rated MTBF device operating condition requirements.

Yes

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2.2 Formatted capacity

ST models Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per logical sector

ST8000NE001 8TB 15,628,053,168

512ST6000NE000 6TB 11,721,045,168

ST4000NE001 4TB 7,814,037,168

* One GB 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 48-bit addressing
support of drives with capacities over 137GB.

2.3 Recording and interface technology

8TB, 6TB & 4TB

Interface Serial ATA (SATA)

Recording method Pe rpendicular

Recording density, KBPI (Kb/in max) 2509

Track density, KTPI (ktracks/in, 0 Skew) 371

Areal density (Gb/in2, @ 0 skew mid-disk) 930

Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%) 7200

Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max) 2850

Sustained data transfer rate (MiB/s max) 200 (214 MB/s max)

I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max) 600 (Ultra DMA mode 5)

2.4 Start/stop times

Power-on to Ready (sec) (typ/max) 23/30

Standby to Ready (sec) (typ/max) 23/30

Ready to spindle stop (sec) (max) 23

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2.5 Power specifications

The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. See Figure 3 on page 23.

2.5.1 Power consumption

Power requirements for the drives are listed in Table 2 through Table 3. Typical power measurements are based on an average of
drives tested, under nominal conditions, using 5.0V and 12.0V input voltage at 25°C ambient temperature.

Table 2 DC power requirements (8TB & 6TB)

6.0Gb mode

Voltage +5V +12V Watts

Regulation ± 5% Total
Avg Idle Current * 0.227 0.497 7.06

Advanced Idle Current *

Idle_A 0.226 0.497 7.06
Idle_B 0.173 0.426 5.90
Idle_C 0.166 0.226 3.53
Standby 0.158 0.01 0.86

Maximum Start Current

DC (peak DC) 0.702 1.65 23.34
AC (Peak DC) 0.968 1.96

Operating current (random read 4K16Q)

Typical DC 0.393 0.705 10.36

Maximum DC 0.396 0.717
Maximum DC (peak) 0.11 2.25

Operating current (random write 4K16Q)

Typical DC 0.27 0.798 10.86
Maximum DC 0.27 0.805
Maximum DC (peak) 0.636 2.24

Operating current (sequential read 64K16Q)

Typical DC 0.696 0.544 9.94
Maximum DC 0.701 0.546
Maximum DC (peak) 1.23 1.82

Operating current (sequential write 64K16Q)

Typical DC 0.593 0.539 9.37
Maximum DC 0.593 0.539
Maximum DC (peak) 0.704 0.853

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