Seagate ST3500410SV Computer Drive User Manual


 
8 SV35.5 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C
2.2 Formatted capacity
Model
Formatted
capacity*
Guaranteed
sectors
Bytes per sector
ST31000525SV 1 Tbyte 1,953,525,168
512ST3500410SV 500 Gbytes 976,773,168
ST3250311SV 250 Gbytes 488,397,168
*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 the drive 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
Cylinders Read/write heads Sectors per track
16,383 16 63
LBA mode
When addressing the drive 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
All models
Interface Serial ATA (SATA)
Recording method Perpendicular
Recording density (kbits/inch max) 1,474 kbits/in max
Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 236 ktracks/in avg
Areal density (Gbits/inch
2
avg) 345 Gbits/in
2
avg
Internal data transfer rate (Mbits/sec max) 1,628 Mbits/sec max
Sustained data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 140
I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 300