User Manual

Seagate SkyHawk Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. B 9
www.seagate.com Drive specifications
1.2.2 Formatted capacity
*One GB equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting.
NOTE LBA Counts for drive capacities greater than 8TB are calculated based upon the
SFF-8447 standard publication.
ftp://ftp.seagate.com/sff/SFF-8447.PDF
1.2.2.1 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 1.4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-bit
addressing support of drives with capacities over 137GB.
1.2.3 Recording and interface technology
1.2.4 Start/stop times
ST models Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per logical sector
ST14000VX0008 14TB 27,344,764,928
512EST12000VX0008 12TB 23,437,770,752
ST10000VX0008 10TB 19,532,873,728
Interface Serial ATA (SATA)
Recording method Perpendicular
Recording density, KBPI (Kb/in max) 2426
Track density, KTPI (ktracks/in avg) 436
Areal density (Gb/in
2
avg) 1058
Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%) 7200
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max) 2833
Sustained data transfer rate (MiB/s max) 210
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max) 600 (Ultra DMA mode 5)
Power-on to Ready (sec) (typ/max) 23/30
Standby to Ready (sec) (typ/max) 23/30
Ready to spindle stop (sec) (max) 20