Formatted Capacity; Lba Mode; Default Logical Geometry; Recording And Interface Technology - Seagate SKYHAWK ST4000VX005 Product Manual

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2.2

Formatted capacity

Model Formatted capacity*
8TB 8000GB
6TB 6000GB
4TB 4000GB
3TB 3000GB
2TB 2000GB
1TB 1000GB
*One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion 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.
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

Interface
Recording method
Recording density (kBPI)
Track density (ktracks/inch avg)
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Areal density (Gb/in )
Interface transfer rate (MB/s)
Data transfer rate (MB/s)
Seagate SkyHawk Product Manual, Rev. C
Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector
15,628,053,168
11,721,045,168
7,814,037,168
5,860,533,168
3,907,029,168
1,953,525,168
4096
SATA
TGMR
2294
540
1203
600
up to 190
Drive Specifications
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