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2.1
Formatted capacity
Formatted
Model
capacity*
ST31000533CS
1000 Gbytes
*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment
and formatting.
2.1.1
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 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-
bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes.
2.2
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.
2.3
Recording and interface technology
Interface
Recording method
Recording density (kbits/inch max)
Track density (ktracks/inch avg)
2
Areal density (Gbits/inch
Spindle speed (RPM)
Internal data transfer rate (Mbits/sec max)
Sustained data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)
I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)
6
Guaranteed
sectors
1,953,525,168
avg)
Bytes per sector
512
Sectors per track
63
ST31000533CS
Serial ATA (SATA)
Perpendicular
1300
182
228
7,200 ± 0.2%
1520
120
300
Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C
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