Formatted Capacity; Lba Mode; Default Logical Geometry; Recording And Interface Technology - Seagate CONSTELLATION ES.2 SERIAL ATA ST33000650NS Product Manual

3.2

Formatted capacity

Formatted
Model capacity*
ST33000650NS
ST33000651NS 3TB
ST33000652NS
*One GB equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment
and formatting.
3.2.1

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 7.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-
bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137GB.
3.3

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.
3.4

Recording and interface technology

Interface
Recording method
Recording density, KBPI (Kb/in max)
Track density, KTPI (ktracks/in avg)
2
Areal density (Gb/in avg)
Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%)
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max)
Sustained data transfer rate (MB/s max)
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max)
6
Guaranteed
sectors
5,860,533,168
Sectors per track
63
Serial ATA (SATA)
Perpendicular
1638
270
444
7200
1900
155
600 (Ultra DMA mode 5)
Constellation ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. D
Bytes per sector
512