Default Logical Geometry; Recording And Interface Technology; Physical Characteristics - Seagate ST3000VX000 Product Manual

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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 (kFCI)
Track density (ktracks/inch avg)
2
Areal density (Gb/in avg)
Spindle speed (RPM)
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max)
Maximum sustained data transfer rate, OD read (MB/s)
Average data rate, read/write (MB/s)
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max)
2.5

Physical characteristics

Maximum height
Maximum width (all models)
Maximum length (all models)
Typical weight
Cache buffer
Seagate SV35 Series HDD Product Manual, Rev. E
3TB and 2TB 26.1mm / 1.028 in
1TB 20.17mm / 0.7825 in
101.6mm / 4.0 in (± 0.010 in)
146.99mm / 5.787 in
3TB and 2TB 626g / 1.38 lb
1TB 400g/0.88 lb
64MB (64,768kb)
SATA
TGMR
1807
352
625
7200 ± 0.2%
2147
210
156
600
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