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  • Seagate ST3250823AS | Product Manual - Page 1
    Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA ST3400832AS ST3400632AS ST3300831AS ST3300631AS ST3250823AS ST3250623AS ST3200826AS
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    Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA ST3400832AS ST3400632AS ST3300831AS ST3300631AS ST3250823AS ST3250623AS ST3200826AS
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    LLC. SeaTools, SeaFONE, SeaBOARD, and SeaTDD are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. Other product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their owners. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. No part of
  • Seagate ST3250823AS | Product Manual - Page 5
    27 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions 28 4.3 Supported ATA commands 29 4.3.1 Identify Device command 31 4.3.2 Set Features command 34 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands 35 5.0 Seagate Technology support services 37 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D iii
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    iv Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    2. Figure 3. Figure 4. Figure 5. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile 14 Typical 12V startup and operation current profile 14 Serial ATA connectors 24 Attaching SATA cabling 24 Mounting dimensions-top, side and end view 25 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D v
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    This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda® 7200.8 Serial ATA model drives: Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA • ST3400832AS • ST3400632AS • ST3300831AS • ST3300631AS • ST3250823AS • ST3250623AS • ST3200826AS These drives provide
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    ATA devices behave like Device 0 devices. For additional information about how Serial ATA emulates parallel ATA, refer to the "Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment" specification. The specification can be downloaded from www.serialata.org. 2 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual
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    ST3300831AS, ST3300631AS, ST3250823AS, ST3250623AS and ST3200826AS models. 2.1 Specification summary tables The specifications listed in tables 1, 2, and 3 are for quick reference. For details on specification measurement or definition, see the appropriate section of this manual. Barracuda 7200
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    models Drive specification I/O data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) ATA data-transfer modes supported SATA data-transfer modes supported Cache buffer Height (max) Width (max) Length 1.2 5V ± 5% 12V ± 10% 0° to 60°C (op.) -40° to 70°C (nonop.) 4 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    a specific drive, use a web browser to access the following web page: www.seagate.com/support/service/ From 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. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual
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    Drive /sec max) ATA data-transfer modes supported SATA data-transfer modes supported Cache buffer Height tolerance (including noise) Ambient temperature ST3300831AS 300 586,072,368 512 63 16 (op.) -40° to 70°C (nonop.) ST3300631AS 16 Mbytes 6 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    , nonoperating Drive acoustics, sound power (bels) Idle** Performance seek Nonrecoverable read errors Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) Service life Warranty Contact start-stop cycles (25°C, 50% relative humidity) Supports Hotplug operation per SATA II specification ST3300831AS ST3300631AS 20
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    models Drive specification data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) ATA data-transfer modes supported SATA data-transfer modes supported Cache buffer Height (max) Width (max) to 60°C (op.) -40° to 70°C (nonop.) ST3200826AS 200 390,721,968 8 Mbytes 8 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    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. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 9
  • Seagate ST3250823AS | Product Manual - Page 18
    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. 10 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    Cache buffer ST3400832AS ST3300831AS ST3250823AS ST3200826AS ST3400632AS ST3300631AS ST3250623AS 2.5 Physical characteristics ATA (SATA) 16/17 EPRML 763,000 120,000 91,560 7,200 95 65 150 (SATA 1.0) 1:1 8 Mbytes (8,192 kbytes) 16 Mbytes (16,384 kbytes) Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual
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    drives are formatted, benchmark tests that include command overhead or measure logical seeks may produce results that vary from these specifications. 2.7 Start/stop times Power-on to Ready (sec) Standby to Ready (sec) Ready to spindle stop (sec) 10 (max) 10 (max) 12 (max) 12 Barracuda 7200
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    , with servo electronics active and with the heads in a random track location. • Standby mode During Standby mode, the drive accepts commands, but the drive is not spinning, and the servo and read/ write electronics are in power-down mode. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 13
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    typ amps 2.8 (peak) 0.433 0.433 0.715 0.782 0.006 0.006 *During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and Typical 12V startup and operation current profile 14 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    . • Idle and Standby timers Each time the drive performs an Active function (read, write or seek), the standby timer is reinitialized and begins counting down from its specified delay times to zero. If the standby timer reaches zero before any Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 15
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    shock These drives comply with the performance levels specified in this document when subjected to a maximum operating shock of 63 Gs based on half-sine shock pulses of 2 msec. Shocks should not be repeated more than two times per second. 16 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev
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    bels (typ) 3.4 bels (max) Performance seek 3.7 bels (typ) 3.9 bels (max) *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. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 17
  • Seagate ST3250823AS | Product Manual - Page 26
    www.seagate.com/support/service/ From this page, click on the "Verify Your Warranty" link. You will be asked to provide the drive serial number, model number (or part number) and country of purchase. The system will display the warranty information for your drive. None required. 18 Barracuda 7200
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    E-H011-04-4534 (B) E-H011-04-4534 (B) E-H011-04-4534 (B) E-H011-04-4533 (B) E-H011-04-4533 (B) E-H011-04-4533 (B) • Trade name or applicant: Seagate Technology • Manufacturing date: November 2004 • Manufacturer/nationality: Singapore and China Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 19
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    Commission: How to Identify and Resolve Radio-Television Interference Problems. This booklet is available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Refer to publication number 004-000-00345-4. 20 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    operating procedures are complied with. 2.15 Corrosive environment Seagate electronic drive components pass accelerated corrosion testing equivalent to 10 years exposure by replacing materials near circuitry with sulfide-free alternatives. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 21
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    22 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    factory-installed labels from the drive or cover them with additional labels. Removal voids the warranty. Some factory-installed labels contain information needed to service the drive. Other labels are used to seal out dirt and contamination. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 23
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    the drive as illustrated in Figure 4. Signal connector Power connector Signal cable Power cable Figure 4. Attaching SATA cabling Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA drives support latching SATA connectors. 24 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual
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    [1] 4.000 (101.6) 4.000 (101.6) .814 (20.676) CL of conn. Datum B 2.00 (50.80) CL of drive [1] 2 x 3.750 (2 x 95.25) .250 + .015 (6.35 + .381) (3x both sides) 1.028 max 000 (101.6) [1] Figure 5. Mounting dimensions-top, side and end view Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 25
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    26 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA drives incorporate connectors which enable you to hot plug these drives in accordance with the Serial ATA II: Extension to Serial ATA 1.0a specification. This specification can be downloaded from www.serialata.org. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual
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    ATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 7 summarizes the signals on the Serial ATA interface and power connectors.. Table 7: Serial ATA 2nd mate P11 Ground or LED signal If grounded, drive does not use deferred spin P12 Ground 1st mate. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    Supported ATA commands Command name Check Power Mode Device Configuration Freeze Lock Device Configuration Identify Device Configuration Restore Device Configuration Set Device Reset Download Microcode Execute Device 21H 40H 42H 41H 10H F6H F3H Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 29
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    B0H / DAH B0H / D3H B0H / D6H 96H or E2H 94H or E0H E8H CAH 35H CDH CBH 3FH C5H 39H CEH 30H 31H 34H 30 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    in sectors Value 0C5AH 16,383 0000H 16 0000H 0000H 003FH 0000H ASCII 0000H 0400H 0000H x.xx ST3400832AS ST3400632AS ST3300831AS ST3300631AS ST3250823AS ST3250623AS ST3200826AS 8010H 0000H 2F00H 0000H 0200H 0200H 0007H xxxxH xxxxH xxxxH xxxxH Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 31
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    value (see description following this table) ATA-reserved Value xxxxH 0FFFFFFFh* 0000H xx07H 0003H 0078H 0078H 00F0H 0078H 0000H 0000H xxxxH xxxxH xxxxH xxxxH 003EH 0000H 364BH 7C03H 4003H 30xxH 0001H 4000H xx3FH 0000H 0000H FFFEH xxxxH 0000H 32 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    These words are required for drives that support the 48-bit addressing feature. Maximum value: 0000FFFFFFFFFFFFh. ATA-reserved Security status Seagate-reserved ATA-reserved Integrity word Value ST3400832AS = 781,422,768 ST3400632AS = 781,422,768 ST3300831AS = 586,072,368 ST3300631AS = 586,072,368
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    the drive supports, the SATA features AAH Enable read look-ahead (read cache) feature (default). F1H Report full capacity available Note. At power-on, or after a hardware or software reset, the default values of the features are as indicated above. 34 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual
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    new drives and is also available at: http://seatools.seagate.com. This drive is shipped with S.M.A.R.T. features disabled. You must have a recent BIOS or software package that supports aborted and 0x04 (abort) is written to the Error register. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 35
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    36 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    ™ (+1-405-324-3655) is a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD). You can send questions or comments 24 hours daily and exchange messages with a technical support specialist during normal business hours for the call center in your region. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 37
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    time). 3Hours of operation are 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday (Central time). 4Authorized Service Center 5Hours of operation are 8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M., Monday through Friday, and 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Saturday (Eastern time). 38 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
  • Seagate ST3250823AS | Product Manual - Page 47
    service in Africa and the Middle East, dial our European CSO warranty center at +31-20-3167222 from 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. (Central Europe time) Monday through Friday, or send a FAX to +31-20-6533513. The CSO warranty center is located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA
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    here, direct dial one of our technical support locations. Warranty service is available from 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 (Australian Eastern time) Monday through Friday. Seagate Service Centers Call center Australia China (Mandarin)1, 4 Service Center 40 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    are interested in your comments and suggestions regarding this publication. Please take a few minutes to participate in our survey at the following URL: http://survey.seagate.com/survey/techpubs.nsf Thank you for your time and comments. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 41
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    ATA commands 29 ATA data-transfer modes supported Device Diagnostics 29 F FCC verification 20 features 1 Federal Communications Commission 20 Flush Cache 29 Flush Cache Extended 29 Format Track 29 Formatted capacity 10 Formatted Gbytes 4, 6, 8 G Gbytes 10 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual
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    15 IEC950 19 Information Technology Equipment (ITE) 19 Initialize Device Parameters 29 Input noise ripple 15 input voltage 13 Interface 11 16 MIC 19 mounting 25 mounting screws 16 mounting the drive 23 N noise 15 nominal power 12 Nonoperating shock Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    time 4, 6, 8 Seeking 14 Serial ATA 11 Serial ATA (SATA) interface 27 serial ATA ports 2 Servo electronics 13 servo 6, 8 static-discharge 23 support services 37 Surge immunity 18 T technical support services 37 temperature 4, 5, 6, 7, 6, 8, 15 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D 45
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    Write Multiple 30 Write Multiple Extended 30 Write Multiple FUA Extended 30 Write Sectors 30 Write Sectors Extended 30 Write Sectors Without Retries 30 46 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
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    Seagate Technology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066-4544, USA Publication Number: 100325576, Rev. D, Printed in USA
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Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA
ST3400832AS
ST3400632AS
ST3300831AS
ST3300631AS
ST3250823AS
ST3250623AS
ST3200826AS