Seagate ST9250315ASG User Manual

Product Manual

Momentus 5400.6 SATA

ST9500325AS ST9320325AS ST9250315AS ST9160314AS ST9120315AS

ST9500325ASG ST9320325ASG ST9250315ASG ST9160314ASG

100528359 Rev . A September 2008

Copyright © 2008 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100528359, Rev. A September 2008 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC

in the United States and/or other countries. Momentus, 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 operating environment and formatting. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for illustrative purposes. Actual quantities will vary based on various factors, including file size, file format, features and application software. Seagate reserves the right to change, without 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 Physical organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.5 Recording and interface technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.6 Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.7 Seek time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.8 Start/stop times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.9 Power specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.9.1 Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.9.2 Deferred spinup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.9.3 Conducted noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.9.4 Voltage tolerance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.9.5 Power-management modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.10 Environmental specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.10.1 Ambient temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.10.2 Temperature gradient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.10.3 Humidity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.10.4 Altitude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.10.5 Shock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.10.6 Vibration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.11 Acoustics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.12 Electromagnetic immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.13 Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.13.1 Free Fall Protection feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.14 Agency certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.14.1 Safety certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.14.2 Electromagnetic compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.14.3 FCC verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.15 Environmental protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.15.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.15.2 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.16 Corrosive environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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

4.3.1 Identify Device command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

4.3.2 Set Features command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

5.0 Seagate Technology support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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List of Figures

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

Figure 2. Serial ATA connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Figure 3. Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Figure 4. 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 Momentus® 5400.6 SATA model drives:

• ST9500325AS

• ST9500325ASG

• ST9320325AS

• ST9320325ASG

• ST9250315AS

• ST9250315ASG

• ST9160314AS

• ST9160314ASG

• ST9120315AS These drives provide the following key features:

• 5,400-RPM spindle speed.

• 8-Mbyte buffer.

• Free Fall Pro tection (S T95 00325 ASG, S T 93203 25ASG , S T9250315A S G an d ST91 60314 ASG m odel s only)

• Quiet operation. Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor.

• High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 3.0 Gbits/sec).

• Perpendicular recording technology.

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

• Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with command ordering.

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

• 1,000 Gs nonoperating shock and 350 Gs of operating shock.

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

• The 3D Defense System™, w hich in clu des Drive Defense , D at a Defen se and D iagnost ic Defense, offers the industry’s most comprehensive protection for disc drives.

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

• Support for Read Multiple and Write Multiple commands.

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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 normally 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 transiti o n from pa rallel ATA easy by providi ng legacy sof twar e suppo rt. S erial 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 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 http://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 Momentus 5400.6 SATA 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 speci fication

Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* 500 320 250 160 120 Guaranteed sector s 976,773,168 625,142,448 488,397,168 312,581,808 234,441,648 Bytes per sector 512 Physical read/write heads 4 3 2 2 1 Discs 2 2 1 1 1 Cache (Mbytes) 8 Recording density in BPI (bits/inch avg) 1,490k Track density TPI (tracks/inch avg) 265k Areal density (Gbits/inch Spindle speed (RPM) 5,400 Average latency (msec) 5.6 Internal transfer rate (Mbits/sec max) 1,175 I/O data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 300 ATA data-transfer modes supported SATA 1.0, Serial ATA Revision 2.6

Height (max) 9.5 +/- 0.2 mm (0.374 +/- .0078 inches) Width (max) 69.85 mm +/- 0.25 mm (2.75 +/- 0.0098 inches) Length (max) 100.35 + 0.35 / - 0.25 mm (3.957 + 0.079 / - 0.0098 inches) Weight (max) 98.8 grams (0.218 lb) 93.5 grams (0.206 lb) Power-on to ready (sec typical) 3.6 Power-on to ready (sec max) 3.8 Standby to ready (sec typical) 1.8 Standby to ready (sec max) 2 Track-to-track seek time, read (msec typical) 1 Average seek, read (msec typical) 14

avg) 394

ST9500325AS ST9500325ASG

PIO modes 0–4 Multiword DMA modes 0–2 Ultra DMA modes 0–6

ST9320325AS ST9320325ASG

ST9250315AS ST9250315ASG

ST9160314AS ST9160314ASG ST9120315AS

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T a ble 1: Drive speci ficat ion s

Drive speci fication

ST9500325AS ST9500325ASG

ST9320325AS ST9320325ASG

ST9250315AS ST9250315ASG

ST9160314AS ST9160314ASG ST9120315AS

Full-stroke seek, read (msec max) 30 Startup current, +5V (max) 1.0 amp Seek power (typical) 1.54 watts Read/write power (typical) Read: 2.6 watts; Write: 2.85 watts Idle mode, low power (typical) 0.67 watts Standby mode 0.22 watts (typical)*** Sleep mode 0.22 watts (typical)*** Voltage tolerance (including noise) +5V ± 5% Ambient temperature 0° to 60°C (operating), –40° to 70°C (nonoperating) Temperature gradient

(°C per hour max)

20°C (operating) 35°C (nonoperating)

Relative humidity 5% to 95% (operating)

5% to 95% (nonoperating) Relative humidity gradient 30% per hour max Wet bulb temperature

(°C max) Altitude, operating –304.8 m to 3,048 m (–1,000 ft to 10,000 Altitude, nonoperating

37.7 (operating)

40 (nonoperating)

–304.8 m to 12,192 m (–1000 ft to 40,000

+ ft)

(meters below mean sea level, max) Shock, operating (Gs max at 2 msec) 350 Shock, nonoperating (Gs max at 2 msec) 800 Shock, nonoperating (Gs max at 1 msec) 1,000 Shock, nonoperating (Gs max at 0.5 msec) 600 Vibration, operating 1.0 G (0 to peak, 5–500 Hz) Vibration, nonoperating 5.0 Gs (0 to peak, 10–500 Hz) Drive acoustics, sound power (bels) Idle** 2.4 (typical)

2.6 (max)

Performance seek 2.6 (typical)

2.7 (max)

Nonrecoverable read errors 1 per 10

bits read Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.48% Load/Unload (U/UL) cycles

25°C, 50% relative humidity

32°C, 80% relative humidity 5°C, 80% relative humidity

600,000 software-controlled power on/off cycles 20,000 hard power on/off cycles

600,000 software-controlled power on/off cycles

20,000 hard power on/off cycles 5°C, 10% relative humidity 55°C, 16% relative humidity

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

ing web page:

support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp

You will be asked to provide the drive serial number, model number (or part number)

and country of purchase. After submitting this information, the system will display the

warranty information for your drive. Supports Hotplug operation per Serial ATA

Yes (requires COMRESET from host after a hotplug event) Revision 2.6 specification

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

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and formatting.

**During period s of driv e idle, some offline activity may occur acc or ding to th e S. M.A .R.T. s pe cifica ti on, whic h ma y in crease acoustic and

power to operational levels.

***Typical notebooks will pull power to th e drive when ente ring S3 and S4; while in the S3 and S4 states, dr ive sleep and drive standby

modes will not contribute to battery power consumption.

2.2 Formatted ca pacity

Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector

ST9500325AS and ST9500325ASG 500 Gbytes 976,773,168 512 ST9320325AS and ST9320325ASG 320 Gbytes 625,142,448 512 ST9250315AS and ST9250315ASG 250 Gbytes 488,397,168 512 ST9160314AS and ST9160314ASG 160 Gbytes 312,581,808 512 ST9120315AS 120 Gbytes 234,441,648 512

*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity ma y vary depending on operating env ironm ent

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 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.

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2.4 Physical organization

Drive model Read/write heads Number of discs

ST9500325AS and ST9500325ASG 4 2 ST9320325AS and ST9320325ASG 3 2 ST9250315AS and ST9250315ASG 2 1 ST9160314AS and ST9160314ASG 2 1 ST9120315AS 1 1

2.5 Recording and interface tech nology

Interface Serial ATA (SATA) Recording method Perpendicular Recording density BPI (bits/inch avg) 1,490k Track density TPI (tracks/inch avg) 265k Areal density (Gbits/inch2 avg) 394 Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%) 5,400 Maximum Internal transfer rate (Mbits/sec) 1,175 I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 300 Interleave 1:1 Cache buffer 8 Mbytes (8,192 kbytes)

2.6 Physical characteristics

Drive specification

Height (mm)

(inches)

Width (mm)

(inches)

Length (mm)

(inches)

Weight (max)

ST9500325AS ST9500325ASG ST9320325AS ST9320325ASG

ST9250315AS ST9250315ASG ST9160314AS ST9160314ASG ST9120315AS

9.5 +/-0.2

0.374 +/-0.0078

69.85 +/-0.25

2.75 +/-0.0098

100.35 +0.55 / -0.25

3.957 +0.079 / -0.0098

98.8 grams

0.218 pounds

93.5 grams

0.206 pounds

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2.7 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.

Table 2: Typical seek times

Seek times (msec) Read

Track-to-track (typical) 1 Average (typical) 14 Full-stroke (max) 30 Average latency 5.56

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 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.

2.8 Start/stop times

Time to ready Typical

Power-on to Ready (sec) 3.6 3.8 St andby to Ready (sec) 1.8 2

Max @ 25°C

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