Seagate ST6000VX0001 Computer Drive User Manual


 
Seagate Surveillance HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 8
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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
ST6000VX0001 6000GB 11,721,045,168
4K
ST5000VX0001 5000GB 9,767,541,168
Interface SATA
Recording method TGMR
Recording density (kFCI) 1941
Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 340
Areal density (Gb/in
2
) 642
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max) 2347
Maximum sustained data transfer rate, OD read (MB/s) 216
Average data rate, read/write (MB/s) 154
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max) 600