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Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v7 SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 7
*One GB equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible 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.
Drive acoustics, sound power (bels)
Idle**
2.8 (typical)
3.0 (max)
Performance seek
3.2 (typical)
3.4 (max)
Nonrecoverable read errors 1 sector per 10
15
bits read
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.35% based on 8760 POH
Maximum Rated Workload
Maximum rate of <550TB/year
Workloads exceeding the annualized rate may degrade the drive MTBF and impact
product reliability. The Annualized Workload Rate is in units of TB per year, or TB per
8760 power on hours.
Workload Rate = TB transferred * (8760 / recorded power on hours).
Warranty
To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the fol-
lowing web page: http://www.seagate.com/support/warranty-and-replacements/.
From this page, click on the “Is my Drive under Warranty” link. The following are
required to be provided: the drive serial number, model number (or part number)
and country of purchase.The system will display the warranty information for the
drive.
Load-unload cycles 600,000
Supports Hotplug operation per
Serial ATA Revision 3.2 specification
Yes
Drive specification ST12000NM0007, ST12000NM0017