Default Logical Geometry; Recording And Interface Technology - Seagate Barracuda Series Product Manual

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2.3 Default logical geometry

• Cylinders: 16,383
• Read/write heads: 16
• Sectors per track: 63
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 (kFCI)
3TB, 2TB, 1.5TB, 1TB and 750GB models
500GB, 320GB and 250GB models
Track density (ktracks/inch avg)
2
Areal density (Gb/in )
3TB, 2TB, 1.5TB, 1TB and 750GB models
500GB, 320GB, 250GB models
Spindle speed (RPM)
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max)
Maximum sustained data transfer rate, OD read (MB/s)
3TB, 2TB, 1.5TB, 1TB and 750GB models
500GB, 320GB, 250GB models
Average data rate, read/write (MB/s)
3TB, 2TB, 1.5TB, 1TB and 750GB models
500GB, 320GB, 250GB models
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max)
Barracuda SATA Product Manual, Rev. D
Drive Specifications
SATA
TGMR
1807
1413
352
625
329
7200 ± 0.2%
2147
210
144
156
125
600
15