Formatted Capacity; Lba Mode; Recording And Interface Technology - Seagate ST3200826ACE Product Manual

2.2

Formatted capacity

Formatted
Model capacity
ST3400832ACE 400 Gbytes
ST3300831ACE 300 Gbytes
ST3250823ACE 250 Gbytes
ST3200826ACE 200 Gbytes
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 4.1.2, "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

Recording and interface technology

Interface
Recording method
Recording density BPI (bits/inch max)
Track density TPI (tracks/inch max)
2
Areal density (Mbits/inch
Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%)
Internal data-transfer rate OD (Mbytes/sec max)
Sustained data transfer rate OD (Mbytes/sec max)
I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)
Interleave
Cache buffer
ST3400832ACE, ST3300831ACE, ST3250823ACE and ST3200826ACE
DB35 Series Product Manual, Rev. B
Guaranteed
sectors
781,422,768
586,072,368
488,397,168
390,721,968
max)
Bytes per sector
512
512
512
512
ATA
16/17 EPRML
763,000
120,000
91,560
7,200
95
65.0
100 (Ultra DMA mode 5)
1:1
8 Mbytes (8,192 kbytes)
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