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Pipeline HD SATA Product Manual, Rev. B 13
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Drive Specifications
2.2 Formatted capacity
*One Gbyte 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 137GBs.
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.
2.4 Recording and interface technology
Interface Serial ATA (SATA)
Recording method Perpendicular
Recording density (max) 1632kb/in
Track density (avg) 274 ktracks/in
Areal density (avg) 422Gb/in
Spindle speed (RPM) 5900 ± 0.2%
Internal data transfer rate (max) 1928Mb/s
Sustained data transfer rate (max) 144MB/s
I/O data-transfer rate (max) 300MB/s
Model
Formatted
capacity*
Guaranteed
sectors
Bytes per sector
ST2000VM002
2000GB 3,907,029,168 4096 (512 bytes per sector emulated at the
interface)
ST1500VM002
1500GB 2,930,277,168 4096 (512 bytes per sector emulated at the
interface)