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DB35 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. E
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*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment
and formatting.
**During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and
power to operational levels.
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 137 Gbytes.
2.3 Default logical geometry
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.
Supports Hotplug operation per SATA II
specification
Yes
Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector
ST3400832SCE 400 Gbytes 781,422,768 512
ST3300831SCE 300 Gbytes 586,072,368 512
ST3250823SCE 250 Gbytes 488,397,168 512
ST3200826SCE 200 Gbytes 390,721,968 512
Cylinders Read/write heads Sectors per track
16,383 16 63
Table 1: Drive specifications
Drive specification ST3400832SCE ST3300831SCE ST3250823SCE ST3200826SCE