Formatted Capacity; Lba Mode; Default Logical Geometry; Recording And Interface Technology - Seagate ST3000VX006 Product Manual

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2.2

Formatted capacity

Formatted
Model
capacity*
ST3000VX006
ST2000VX003
ST1000VX001
* 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 137GBs.
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.
2.4

Recording and interface technology

Interface
Recording method
Recording density (max)
Track density (avg)
Areal density (avg)
Spindle speed (RPM)
Internal data transfer rate (max)
Sustained data transfer rate (max)
I/O data-transfer rate (max)
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Guaranteed
sectors
3TB 5,860,533,168
2TB 3,907,029,168
1TB 1,953,525,168
Sectors per track
63
ST3000VX006, ST2000VX003 & ST1000VX001
SATA
Perpendicular
1807kFCI
352ktracks/in
2
625Gfc/in
5900 ± 0.2%
2147Mb/s
159MB/s
600MB/s
Bytes per sector
4096
(512 bytes per sector emulated
at the interface)
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