Lba Mode; Default Logical Geometry; Recording And Interface Technology - Seagate ST4000DM000 Product Manual

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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 137GB.

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
Track density (ktracks/inch avg)
Areal density (Gb/in 2
)
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)
Seagate Desktop HDD Product Manual, Rev. A
SATA
TGMR
3TB 1849kFCI
4TB 2054kFCI
3TB and 4TB 390
3TB 730
4TB 811
3TB 1858
4TB 2111
3TB and 4TB 190
3TB and 4TB 161
600
Drive Specifications
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