Seagate ST1000VX000 Computer Drive User Manual


 
SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 13
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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 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
ST3000VX000 3000GB 5,860,533,168
4K
ST2000VX000 2000GB 3,907,029,168
ST1000VX000 1000GB 1,953,525,168
Interface SATA
Recording method TGMR
Recording density (kFCI) 1807
Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 352
Areal density (Gb/in
2
avg) 625
Spindle speed (RPM) 7200 ± 0.2%
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max) 2147
Maximum sustained data transfer rate, OD read (MB/s ) 210
Average data rate, read/write (MB/s) 156
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max) 600