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Revision Rev. A Rev. B Rev. C Revision history Date 09/15/2009 11/20/2009 01/08/2010 Sheets affected or comments Initial release. Updated drive specifications on Tables 1-3; added "Warranty" specific section. Made minor text edits throughout. Corrected publication part number. Copyright © 2008-2010 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100586689, Rev. C January 2010 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Barracuda, 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. When referring to drive capacity, 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 About the Serial ATA interface	8
2.0 Drive specifications	9
2.1 Formatted capacity	11
2.1.1 LBA mode	11
2.2 Default logical geometry	11
2.3 Recording and interface technology	11
2.4 Physical characteristics	12
2.5 Start/stop times	12
2.6 Power specifications	13
2.6.1 Power consumption	13
2.6.1.1 Typical current profiles	14
2.6.2 Conducted noise	15
2.6.3 Voltage tolerance	15
2.6.4 Power management modes	15
2.7 Environmental specifications	16
2.7.1 Ambient temperature	16
2.7.2 Temperature gradient	16
2.7.3 Humidity	16
2.7.3.1 Relative humidity	16
2.7.3.2 Wet bulb temperature	16
2.7.4 Altitude	16
2.7.5 Shock	17
2.7.5.1 Operating shock	17
2.7.5.2 Nonoperating shock	17
2.7.6 Vibration	17
2.7.6.1 Operating vibration	17
2.7.6.2 Nonoperating vibration	17
2.8 Acoustics	18
2.8.1 Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs)	18
2.9 Electromagnetic immunity	18
2.10 Warranty	19
2.11 Agency certification	19
2.11.1 Safety certification	19
2.11.2 Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)	19
2.11.3 FCC verification	20
2.12 Environmental protection	21
2.12.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive	21
2.12.2 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive	21
2.13 Corrosive environment	21
3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive	22
3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions	22
3.2 Configuring the drive	23
3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors	23
3.4 Drive mounting	24
4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface	25
4.1 Hot-Plug compatibility	25
4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions	26
4.3 Supported ATA commands	27
4.3.1 Identify Device command	29
4.3.2 Set Features command	33
4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands	34
5.0 Seagate Technology support services	35
Index	37
A	37
B	37
C	37
D	37
E	37
F	37
G	37
H	37
I	37
K	38
L	38
M	38
N	38
O	38
P	38
Q	38
R	38
S	38
T	39
U	39
V	39

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Revision history

Publication number: 100586689, Rev. C January 2010

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

States and/or other countries. Barracuda, SeaTools and SeaTDD are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Sea-

gate 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.

When referring to drive capacity, 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 stor-

age. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications.

Revision

Date

Sheets affected or comments

Rev. A

09/15/2009

Initial release.

Rev. B

11/20/2009

Updated drive specifications on Tables 1-3; added “Warranty” specific section. Made

minor text edits throughout.

Rev. C

01/08/2010

Corrected publication part number.