Formatted Capacity; Lba Mode; Default Logical Geometry - Seagate SV35 Series SATA Product Manual

2.2

Formatted capacity

Model Formatted capacity*
ST3500641SV 500 Gbytes
ST3250824SV 250 Gbytes
ST3160812SV 160 Gbytes
*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.
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 137 Gbytes.
2.3

Default logical geometry

Cylinders Read/write heads
16,383 16
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.
10
Guaranteed sectors
976,773,168
488,397,168
312,581,808
Sectors per track
63
Bytes per sector
512
512
512
SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C