Formatted Capacity; Fast Format - Logical Sector Size Conversion - Seagate Exos X14 Product Manual

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2.2

Formatted capacity

ST models
ST14000NM0018
ST14000NM0258
ST12000NM0008
ST12000NM0248
ST10000NM0478
ST10000NM0568
*One GB equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary
depending on operating environment and formatting.
NOTE
2.2.1

Fast Format - logical sector size conversion

 Drive supports either 512E or 4KN logical sector size formats
SET SECTOR CONFIGURATION EXT (B2h) command (ACS-4 Standard) quickly converts between 512 and 4096 byte logical

sector size formats
 The selected sector size change occurs immediately upon command completion
Default shipping format is 512E
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Table 3 SET SECTOR CONFIGURATION EXT command inputs
Field
FEATURE
COUNT
LBA
DEVICE
COMMAND
COMMAND CHECK field value is taken from the DESCRIPTOR CHECK field in the descriptor specified by the

SECTOR CONFIGURATION DESCRIPTOR INDEX field
SECTOR CONFIGURATION DESCRIPTOR INDEX field specifies the Sector Configuration descriptor in the Set Sector
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Configuration log page
Seagate Exos X14 SATA Product Manual, Rev. C
Formatted Guaranteed
capacity* sectors
14TB 27,344,764,928
12TB 23,437,770,752
10TB 19,532,873,728
LBA Counts for drive capacities greater than 8TB are
calculated based upon the SFF-8447 standard publication.
ftp://ftp.seagate.com/sff/SFF-8447.PDF
Description
COMMAND CHECK field
Bit Description
15 : 3 Reserved
2:0 SECTOR CONFIGURATION DESCRIPTOR INDEX field
Reserved
Bit Description
7 Obsolete
6 N/A
5 Obsolete
4 Transport Dependent
3:0 Reserved
7:0 B2h
Bytes per Guaranteed
logical sector
3,418,095,616
512
2,929,721,344
(Default)
2,441,609,216
Drive specifications
Bytes per
sectors logical sector
4096
(see Section 2.2.1)
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