Formatted Capacity; Lba Mode; Default Logical Geometry - Seagate SV35.3 Series Serial ATA ST3250310SV Product Manual

2.2

Formatted capacity

Formatted
Model capacity*
ST31000340SV 1000 Gbytes
ST3750330SV 750 Gbytes
ST3500320SV 500 Gbytes
ST3250310SV 250 Gbytes
*One Gbyte equals one billion 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 137 Gbytes.
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.
8
Guaranteed
sectors
1,953,525,168
1,465,149,168
976,773,168
488,397,168
Sectors per track
63
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Bytes per sector
512
512
512
512