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Product Manual NL35 Series Serial ATA ® ST3400832NS ST3400632NS ST3250823NS ST3250623NS 100367731 Rev. B August 2007...
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United States and/or other countries. DB35 Series, SeaTools and SeaTDD are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate NL35 Series Serial ATA model drives: NL35 Series Serial ATA • ST3400832NS • ST3400632NS • ST3250823NS • ST3250623NS These drives provide the following key features: • 7,200 RPM spindle speed.
About the Serial ATA interface The Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the traditional (parallel) ATA interface. The primary advantages include: • Easy installation and configuration with true plug-and-play connectivity. It is not necessary to set any jump- ers or other configuration options. •...
Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power. For convenience, the phrases the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to indicate the ST3400832NS, ST3250823NS, ST3400632NS, and ST3250623NS models. Specification summary tables The specifications listed in table 1 are for quick reference.
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4.16 10 sec 10 sec 0.8 (read), 1.0 (write) 2.8 amps 7.71 5V ± 5% 12V ± 10% 0° to 60°C (op.) –40° to 70°C (nonop.) NL35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B ST3250823NS ST3250623NS 488,397,168 8 Mbytes 16 Mbytes...
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From this page, click on the “Verify Your Warranty” link. You will be asked to provide the drive serial number, model number (or part number) and country of purchase. The system will display the warranty information for your drive. 50,000 ST3250823NS ST3250623NS...
Formatted capacity* Model ST3400832NS and ST3400632NS ST3250823NS and ST3250623NS *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. 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.
NL35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B Serial ATA (SATA) 16/17 EPRML 763,000 120,000 91,560 7,200 150 (SATA 1.0) 8 Mbytes (8,192 kbytes) on ST3400832NS and ST3250823NS models. 16 Mbytes (16,384) on ST3400632NS and ST3250623NS models. 26.11 1.028 101.85 4.010 146.99 5.787 1.39 Write 4.16...
values. However, due to the manner in which these drives are formatted, benchmark tests that include command overhead or measure logical seeks may produce results that vary from these specifications. Start/stop times Power-on to Ready (sec) Standby to Ready (sec) Ready to spindle stop (sec) Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector.
Table 2: DC power requirements Power dissipation (typical) Spinup Idle Idle* (with offline activity) Operating (40% r/w, 40% seek, 20% inop.) Seeking (random, 20% idle) Standby Sleep *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.
2.8.2 Conducted noise Input noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply across an equivalent 80-ohm resistive load on the +12 volt line or an equivalent 15-ohm resistive load on the +5 volt line. • Using 12-volt power, the drive is expected to operate with a maximum of 120 mV peak-to-peak square-wave injected noise at up to 10 MHz.
drive activity is required, the drive makes a transition to Standby mode. In both Idle and Standby mode, the drive accepts all commands and returns to Active mode when disc access is necessary. Environmental specifications 2.9.1 Ambient temperature Ambient temperature is defined as the temperature of the environment immediately surrounding the drive. Actual drive case temperature should not exceed 69°C (156°F) within the operating ambient conditions for standard models, or 64°C (147°F) within the operating ambient conditions for all models.
2.9.5.2 Nonoperating shock The nonoperating shock level that the drive can experience without incurring physical damage or degradation in performance when subsequently put into operation is 300 Gs based on a nonrepetitive half-sine shock pulse of 2 msec duration. 2.9.6 Vibration All vibration specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input vibration applied at the drive mounting screws.
To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the following web page: www.seagate.com/support/service/ From this page, click on the “Verify Your Warranty” link. You will be asked to pro- vide the drive serial number, model number (or part number) and country of pur- chase.
Information Technology Equipment (ITE). Emission levels are defined by EN 55022, Class B and the immunity levels are defined by EN 55024. Seagate uses an independent laboratory to confirm compliance with the EC directives specified in the previous paragraph. Drives are tested in representative end-user systems. Although CE-marked Seagate drives comply with the directives when used in the test systems, we cannot guarantee that all systems will comply with the directives.
As a subassembly, no Federal Communications Commission verification or certification of the device is required. Seagate Technology LLC has tested this device in enclosures as described above to ensure that the total assembly (enclosure, disc drive, motherboard, power supply, etc.) does comply with the limits for a Class B computing device, pursuant to Subpart J, Part 15 of the FCC rules.
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Seagate products are especially sensitive to the presence of sulfide, chlo- ride, and nitrate contaminants. Sulfur is found to be the most damaging. In addition, electronic components should never be exposed to condensing water on the surface of the printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) or exposed to an ambient relative humidity greater than 95%.
Configuring and mounting the drive This section contains the specifications and instructions for configuring and mounting the drive. Handling and static-discharge precautions After unpacking, and before installation, the drive may be exposed to potential handling and electrostatic dis- charge (ESD) hazards. Observe the following standard handling and static-discharge precautions: Caution: •...
Configuring the drive Each drive on the Serial ATA interface connects in a point-to-point configuration with the Serial ATA host adapter. There is no master/slave relationship because each drive is considered a master in a point-to-point relationships. If two drives are attached on one Serial ATA host adapter, the host operating system views the two devices as if they were both “masters”...
Drive mounting You can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-mounting holes. See Figure 5 on page 19 for drive mounting dimensions. Follow these important mounting precautions when mounting the drive: •...
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NL35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. B...
Serial ATA (SATA) interface These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that supports FIS data transfers. It supports ATA programmed input/output (PIO) modes 0–4; multiword DMA modes 0–2, and Ultra DMA modes 0–6. For detailed information about the Serial ATA interface, refer to the “Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment”...
Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions Table 5 summarizes the signals on the Serial ATA interface and power connectors.. Table 5: Serial ATA connector pin definitions Segment Function Ground Ground Signal Ground Key and spacing separate signal and power segments Ground Ground Ground...
Supported ATA commands The following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive supports. For a detailed description of the ATA commands, refer to the Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment specification. See “S.M.A.R.T. commands” on page 29.for details and subcommands used in the S.M.A.R.T. implementation. Table 6: Supported ATA commands Command name...
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Command name Security Erase Unit Security Freeze Security Set Password Security Unlock Seek Set Features Set Max Address Note: Individual Set Max Address commands are identified by the value placed in the Set Max Features regis- ter as defined to the right. Set Max Address Extended Set Multiple Mode Sleep...
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Word Description Security status 129– Seagate-reserved 160– ATA-reserved Integrity word Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not supported Note. See the bit descriptions below for words 63, 88, and 93 of the Identify Drive data.
4.3.2 Set Features command This command controls the implementation of various features that the drive supports. When the drive receives this command, it sets BSY, checks the contents of the Features register, clears BSY and generates an inter- rupt. If the value in the register does not represent a feature that the drive supports, the command is aborted. Power-on default has the read look-ahead and write caching features enabled.
SeaTools diagnostic software activates a built-in drive self-test (DST S.M.A.R.T. command for D4 nates unnecessary drive returns. The diagnostic software ships with all new drives and is also available at: http://seatools.seagate.com. You must have a recent BIOS or software package that supports S.M.A.R.T. to use this S.M.A.R.T. commands.
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Seagate Customer Service Operations (CSO) representative for warranty- related issues. Resellers or end users of drive products should contact their place of purchase or Seagate warranty service for assistance. Have your serial number and model or part number available.
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Index ACA 15 acceleration 12 acoustics 5 Active 10 Active mode 10 actuator arm 8 Agency certification 14 altitude 11 Altitude, nonoperating 5 Altitude, operating 5 Ambient temperature 4 ambient temperature 7 Areal density 4 ATA commands 23 ATA data-transfer modes supported 4 Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS3548 1995 Australian Communication Authority (ACA) 15 Australian C-Tick 15...