Formatted Capacity; Lba Mode; Default Logical Geometry; Recording And Interface Technology - Seagate Pipeline HD ST2000VM0002 Product Manual

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2.2 Formatted capacity

Formatted
Model
capacity*
ST2000VM0002
ST1500VM0002
*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 137GBs.

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.

2.4 Recording and interface technology

Interface
Recording method
Recording density (max)
Track density (avg)
Areal density (avg)
Spindle speed (RPM)
Internal data transfer rate (max)
Sustained data transfer rate (max)
I/O data-transfer rate (max)
Pipeline HD Product Manual, Rev. A
Guaranteed
sectors
2TB 3,907,029,168
1.5TB 2,930,277,168
Sectors per track
63
2TB and 1.5TB models
SATA
Perpendicular
1632kFCI
274ktracks/in
422Gfc/in2
5900 ± 0.2%
1928Mb/s
144MB/s
300MB/s
Bytes per sector
4096
(512 bytes per sector emulated at the interface)
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