*One GB 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.
See Section 6.3.1, "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
Recording and interface technology
Interface
Recording method
Recording density, KBPI (Kb/in max)
Track density, KTPI (ktracks/in avg)
2
Areal density (Gb/in
avg)
Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%)
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max)
Sustained data transfer rate (MiB/s max)
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max)
2.4
Start/stop times
Power-on to Ready (sec) (typ/max)
Standby to Ready (sec) (typ/max)
Ready to spindle stop (sec) (max)
Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v5 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C