Lba Mode; Recording And Interface Technology; Start/Stop Times - Seagate EXOS 5 E Series Product Manual

Table 4 Sector Configuration descriptors format
Offset
0
1
2...3
4...7
8...15
2.2.2

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 6.3.1, "Identify Device command"
support of drives with capacities over 137GB.
2.3

Recording and interface technology

Interface
Recording method
Recording density, KBPI (Kb/in max)
Track density, KTPI (ktracks/in, 0 Skew)
2
Areal density (Gb/in , @ 0 skew mid-disk)
Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%)
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max)
Sustained data transfer rate (MiB/s max) 8TB models
Sustained data transfer rate (MiB/s max) 6TB models
Sustained data transfer rate (MiB/s max) 4TB, 2TB models
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max)
2.4

Start/stop times

Power-on to Ready (sec) (typ/max)
Standby to Ready (sec) (typ/max)
Ready to spindle stop (sec) (max)
Seagate Exos 7E8 SATA Product Manual, Rev. J
Type Description
Byte Sector Configuration descriptor flags
Bit Description
7 DESCRIPTOR VALID bit
6:0 Reserved
Byte LOGICAL TO PHYSICAL SECTOR RELATIONSHIP SETTING field
Word DESCRIPTOR CHECK field
DWord LOGICAL SECTOR SIZE SETTING field
Bytes Reserved
(words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-bit addressing
23/30
23/30
23
Serial ATA (SATA)
Perpendicular
2509
371
930
7200
2850
238 (249 MB/s max)
234 (245 MB/s max)
216 (226 MB/s max)
600 (Ultra DMA mode 5)
9