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Seagate Desktop HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 5
www.seagate.com Drive Specifications
2.2 Formatted capacity
*One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion 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 5.3.1, "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 Default logical geometry
• Cylinders: 16,383
• Read/write heads: 16
• Sectors per track: 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.
2.4 Recording and interface technology
Model
Formatted
capacity*
Guaranteed
sectors
Bytes per sector
ST5000DM000 5000GB 9,767,541,168 4K
Interface
SATA
Recording method TGMR
Recording density (kFCI) 1807
Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 455
Areal density (Gb/in
2
) 826
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max) 1813
Maximum sustained data transfer rate, OD read (MB/s) 180
Average data rate, read/write (MB/s) 146
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max) 600