User Manual

Seagate FireCuda Product Manual, Rev. C 9
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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 137GB.
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.
2.4 Recording and interface technology
2.5 Physical characteristics
Interface SATA
Recording method TGMR
Recording density (kFCI) 1807
Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 352
Areal density (Gb/in
2
)625
Spindle speed (RPM) 7200 ± 0.2%
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max) 2147
Maximum sustained data transfer rate, OD read (MB/s 210
Average data rate, read/write (MB/s) 156
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max) 600
Maximum height
2TB 26.1mm / 1.028 in
1TB 20.20mm / 0.795 in
Maximum width (all models)
101.6mm / 4.0 in (± 0.010 in)
Maximum length (all models)
146.99mm / 5.787 in
Typical weight
2TB 535g / 1.18 lb
1TB 400g / 0.88 lb
Cache buffer
64MB (64,768kb)