Seagate BARRACUDA 9 Manual

Product ManualBarracuda® 7200.9 Serial ATA100417177Rev. CAugust 2007ST3160811ASST3160211ASST3120811ASST3120211ASST380811ASST380211ASST340211AS

4Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. CTable 1: Drive specifications summary for 160 Gbyte modelsDrive specification ST3160811AS ST316021

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C5*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may

6Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. CTable 2: Drive specifications summary for 120 Gbyte modelsDrive specification ST3120811AS ST312021

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C7*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may

8Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. CTable 3: Drive specifications summary for 80 and 40 Gbyte modelsDrive specification ST380811AS ST3

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C9*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may

10Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C2.2 Formatted capacity *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C112.4 Recording and interface technology2.5 Physical characteristics Interface Serial ATA (SATA)Rec

12Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C2.6 Seek timeSeek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C132.8 Power specificationsThe drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power conn

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14Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C2.8.1.1 Typical current profilesFigure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile Figure

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C152.8.4 Power-management modesThe drive provides programmable power management to provide greater en

16Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C2.9 Environmental specifications2.9.1 Ambient temperatureAmbient temperature is defined as the tem

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C172.9.6 VibrationAll vibration specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the inp

18Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C2.11 Electromagnetic immunityWhen properly installed in a representative host system, the drive op

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C192.13 Agency certification2.13.1 Safety certificationThe drives are recognized in accordance with U

20Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C2.13.3 FCC verificationThese drives are intended to be contained solely within a personal computer

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C212.15 Corrosive environmentSeagate electronic drive components pass accelerated corrosion testing e

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Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C233.0 Configuring and mounting the driveThis section contains the specifications and instructions fo

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. CiContents1.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

24Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C3.2 Configuring the driveEach drive on the Serial ATA interface connects point-to-point with the S

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C253.4 Drive mountingYou can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mountin

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Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C274.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interfaceThese drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that su

28Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitionsTable 7 summarizes the signals on the Serial A

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C294.3 Supported ATA commandsThe following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive su

30Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. CSecurity Erase Unit F4HSecurity Freeze F5HSecurity Set Password F1HSecurity Unlock F2HSeek 70HSet

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C314.3.1 Identify Device commandThe Identify Device command (command code ECH) transfers information

32Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C60–61 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available(see Section 2.2 for related informati

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C33Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not sup

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34Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C4.3.2 Set Features commandThis command controls the implementation of various features that the dr

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C354.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commandsS.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disc drives. When S.

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Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C375.0 Seagate Technology support servicesInternetFor information regarding Seagate products and serv

38Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. CCustomer Service OperationsWarranty ServiceSeagate offers worldwide customer support for Seagate p

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C39IndexAACA 19acceleration 17acoustics 17Active 15Active mode 15actuator arm 13Agency ce

40Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. CIdentify Device 29Identify Device command 31Idle 15, 29Idle Immediate 29Idle mode 13,

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C41SS.M.A.R.T. Disable Operations 30S.M.A.R.T. Enable Operations 30S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Auto

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Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. CiiiList of FiguresFigure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . .

Seagate Technology LLC920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066-4544, USAPublication Number: 100417177, Rev. C, Printed in USA

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C11.0 IntroductionThis manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for t

2Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C1.1 About the Serial ATA interfaceThe Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the tra

Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C32.0 Drive specificationsUnless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient condi