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2.2
Formatted capacity
ST models
Formatted capacity*
ST18000VE000
18TB
ST18000VE002
ST16000VE002
16TB
ST12000VE001
12TB
*One GB equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting.
NOTE
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"
addressing support of drives with capacities over 137GB.
2.3
Recording and interface technology
Interface
Recording method
Recording density, KBPI (Kb/in max) (18TB model)
Recording density, KBPI (Kb/in max) (16TB & 12TB models)
Track density, KTPI (ktracks/in avg) (18TB model)
Track density, KTPI (ktracks/in avg) (16TB & 12TB models)
2
Areal density (Gb/in
avg) (18TB model)
2
Areal density (Gb/in
avg) (16TB & 12TB models)
Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%)
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max)
Sustained data transfer rate (MB/s max) (18TB model)
Sustained data transfer rate (MB/s max) (16TB model)
Sustained data transfer rate (MB/s max) (12TB model)
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max)
Seagate SkyHawk AI Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A
Guaranteed sectors
35,156,656,128
31,251,759,104
23,437,770,752
LBA Counts for drive capacities greater than 8TB are calculated based upon the
SFF-8447 standard publication.
Bytes per logical sector
512E
ftp://ftp.seagate.com/sff/SFF-8447.PDF
(words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-bit
Serial ATA (SATA)
Perpendicular
2321
2426
480
436
1155
1028
7200
2833
260
250
240
600 (Ultra DMA mode 5)
Drive specifications
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