Formatted Capacity; Default Logical Geometry; Recording And Interface Technology - Seagate ST3160215ACE Product Manual

2.1.1

Formatted capacity

Model
ST3160215SCE, ST3160215ACE
ST380215SCE, ST380215ACE
*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environ-
ment and formatting.
2.1.1.1 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 4.4, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-bit
addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes.
2.1.2

Default logical geometry

Cylinders Read/write heads
16,383
2.1.3

Recording and interface technology

Interface
Recording method
Recording density, KBPI (kbits/inch max)
Track density, KTPI (ktracks/inch avg)
2
Areal density (Gbits/inch
Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%)
Internal data transfer rate (Mbits/sec max)
Sustained data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)
I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)
6
Formatted
capacity*
160 Gbytes
80 Gbytes
16
avg)
Guaranteed
sectors
312,581,808
156,301,488
Sectors per track
63
160GB
Serial ATA and Parallel ATA
Perpendicular
824
140
116.2
7,200
930
78
SATA - 300
PATA - 100 (Ultra DMA mode 5)
DB35.3 Series SATA/PATA Product Manual, Rev. F
Bytes per sector
512
512
80GB