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©2009, Seagate Technology LLC All rights reserved. Publication number: 100571983, Rev. B September 2009 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Momentus, SeaTools and SeaTDD are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Seagate Technology LLC. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer's operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications.

Section	Page
1.0 Introduction	7
1.1 System requirements	8
1.2 About Momentus 7200 FDE.2 SATA disc drives	8
1.2.1 Drive state upon shipment	9
2.0 Drive specifications	10
2.1 Specification summary table	10
2.2 Formatted capacity	12
2.2.1 LBA mode	12
2.3 Default logical geometry	12
2.4 Physical organization	12
2.5 Recording and interface technology	13
2.6 Physical characteristics	13
2.7 Seek time	14
2.8 Start/stop times	14
2.9 Power specifications	15
2.9.1 Power consumption	15
2.9.1.1 Typical current profile	16
2.9.2 Conducted noise	16
2.9.3 Voltage tolerance	16
2.9.4 Power-management modes	17
2.10 Environmental specifications	18
2.10.1 Ambient temperature	18
2.10.2 Temperature gradient	18
2.10.3 Humidity	18
2.10.3.1 Relative humidity	18
2.10.3.2 Wet bulb temperature	18
2.10.4 Altitude	18
2.10.5 Shock	19
2.10.5.1 Operating shock	19
2.10.5.2 Nonoperating shock	19
2.10.6 Vibration	19
2.10.6.1 Operating vibration	19
2.10.6.2 Nonoperating vibration	19
2.11 Acoustics	20
2.12 Electromagnetic immunity	20
2.13 Reliability	21
2.13.1 Free Fall Protection feature	22
2.14 Agency certification	22
2.14.1 Safety certification	22
2.14.2 Electromagnetic compatibility	22
2.14.3 FCC verification	23
2.15 Environmental protection	23
2.15.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)	23
2.15.2 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive	24
2.16 Corrosive environment	24
3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive	25
3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions	25
3.2 Configuring the drive	26
3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors	26
3.4 Drive mounting	27
3.5 Drive integration	28
3.5.1 Drive installation	29
3.5.2 Consumer usage	29
3.6 Security Erase--ATA security commands	29
3.6.1 Secure Erase procedure	29
3.6.2 Drive State after Secure Erase	30
4.0 Serial ATA interface	31
4.1 Hot-Plug compatibility	31
4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions	31
4.2.1 ATA Security policy exceptions	33
4.2.2 DriveTrust Mode support	34
4.2.3 Full Disc Encryption support	35
4.2.4 Supported ATA commands	36
4.2.5 Identify Device command	39
4.2.6 Set Features command	43
4.2.7 S.M.A.R.T. commands	44
5.0 Compatibility summary	45
5.1 Installation considerations	45
5.2 System Compatibility using WIndows XP SP2	45
5.2.1 BIOS versions tested in ATA Security mode	45
5.2.2 DriveTrust compatibility verification	48
5.3 Operating system versions tested	52
5.4 Compatibility test configurations	52
6.0 Seagate Technology support services	53
Index	55
A	55
B	55
C	55
D	55
E	55
F	55
G	55
H	55
I	56
K	56
L	56
M	56
N	56
O	56
P	56
Q	56
R	56
S	56
T	57
U	57
V	57

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Publication number:

100571983

Rev. B

September 2009

Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC

in the United States and/or other countries. Momentus, SeaTools and SeaTDD are either trademarks or

registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States

and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective

owners. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of

Seagate Technology LLC.

One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your

computer's operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity.

In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be

available for data storage. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or

specifications.