Seagate SV35 SV35.3 Series SATA Product Manual - Page 14

Formatted capacity, Default logical geometry - series hard drives

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2.2 Formatted capacity Model Formatted capacity* ST31000340SV 1000 Gbytes ST3750330SV 750 Gbytes ST3500320SV 500 Gbytes ST3250310SV 250 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 1,953,525,168 1,465,149,168 976,773,168 488,397,168 Bytes per sector 512 512 512 512 *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 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 48bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes. 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. 8 SV35.3 Series Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B

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SV35.3 Series Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B
2.2
Formatted capacity
*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 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 137 Gbytes.
2.3
Default logical geometry
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
.
Model
Formatted
capacity*
Guaranteed
sectors
Bytes per sector
ST31000340SV
1000 Gbytes
1,953,525,168
512
ST3750330SV
750 Gbytes
1,465,149,168
512
ST3500320SV
500 Gbytes
976,773,168
512
ST3250310SV
250 Gbytes
488,397,168
512
Cylinders
Read/write heads
Sectors per track
16,383
16
63