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Seagate Desktop HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 8
www.seagate.com Drive Specifications
2.2 Formatted capacityy
*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 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 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
ST6000DM001 6000GB 11,721,045,168
4096 physical
(emulated at 512-byte sectors)
ST5000DM002 5000GB 9,767,541,168
ST4000DM000 4000GB 7,814,037,168
Models
ST6000DM001,
ST5000DM002
ST4000DM000
Interface SATA
Recording method TGMR
Recording density (kFCI) 1981 1807
Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 320
Areal density (Gb/in
2
) 633 625
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max) 1981 1813
Average data rate, read/write (MB/s) 180 146
Maximum sustained data transfer rate, OD read (MB/s) 220 180
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max) 600