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Product Manual Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA ST3400832AS ST3400632AS ST3300831AS ST3300631AS ST3250823AS ST3250623AS ST3200826AS 100325576 Rev. F August 2007...
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United States and/or other countries. Barracuda, SeaTools and SeaTDD are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate ® Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA model drives: Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA • ST3400832AS • ST3400632AS • ST3300831AS • ST3300631AS • ST3250823AS • ST3250623AS • ST3200826AS These drives provide the following key features: •...
Shadow Register Block. All Serial ATA devices behave like Device 0 devices. For addi- tional information about how Serial ATA emulates parallel ATA, refer to the “Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment” specification. The specification can be downloaded from www.serialata.org. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
ST3200826AS models. Specification summary tables The specifications listed in tables 1, 2, and 3 are for quick reference. For details on specification measurement or definition, see the appropriate section of this manual. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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0° to 60°C (op.) –40° to 70°C (nonop.) Temperature gradient 20°C (operating) (°C per hour max) 30°C (nonoperating) Relative humidity 5% to 90% (operating) 5% to 95% (nonoperating) Relative humidity gradient 30% per hour max Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. **During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and power to operational levels. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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0° to 60°C (op.) –40° to 70°C (nonop.) Temperature gradient 20°C (operating) (°C per hour max) 30°C (nonoperating) Relative humidity 5% to 90% (operating) 5% to 95% (nonoperating) Relative humidity gradient 30% per hour max Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. **During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and power to operational levels. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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0° to 60°C (op.) –40° to 70°C (nonop.) Temperature gradient 20°C (operating) (°C per hour max) 30°C (nonoperating) Relative humidity 5% to 90% (operating) 5% to 95% (nonoperating) Relative humidity gradient 30% per hour max Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. **During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and power to operational levels. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
Sectors per track 16,383 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. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
Start/stop times Power-on to Ready (sec) 10 (max) Standby to Ready (sec) 10 (max) Ready to spindle stop (sec) 12 (max) Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
Idle mode power is measured with the drive up to speed, with servo electronics active and with the heads in a random track location. • Standby mode During Standby mode, the drive accepts commands, but the drive is not spinning, and the servo and read/ write electronics are in power-down mode. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
*During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and power to operational levels. 2.8.1.1 Typical current profiles Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
Each time the drive performs an Active function (read, write or seek), the standby timer is reinitialized and begins counting down from its specified delay times to zero. If the standby timer reaches zero before any Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
These drives comply with the performance levels specified in this document when subjected to a maximum operating shock of 63 Gs based on half-sine shock pulses of 2 msec. Shocks should not be repeated more than two times per second. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
3.7 bels (typ) 3.4 bels (max) 3.9 bels (max) *During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and power to operational levels. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
From this page, click on the “Verify Your Warranty” link. You will be asked to pro- vide the drive serial number, model number (or part number) and country of pur- chase. The system will display the warranty information for your drive. Preventive maintenance None required. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
Information Technology Equipment (ITE). Emission levels are defined by EN 55022, Class B and the immunity levels are defined by EN 55024. Seagate uses an independent laboratory to confirm compliance with the EC directives specified in the previous paragraph. Drives are tested in representative end-user systems. Although CE-marked Seagate drives comply with the directives when used in the test systems, we cannot guarantee that all systems will comply with the directives.
As a subassembly, no Federal Communications Commission verification or certification of the device is required. Seagate Technology LLC has tested this device in enclosures as described above to ensure that the total assembly (enclosure, disc drive, motherboard, power supply, etc.) does comply with the limits for a Class B computing device, pursuant to Subpart J, Part 15 of the FCC rules.
Lead (Pb), in electronic products effective July 2006. A number of parts and materials in Seagate products are procured from external suppliers. We rely on the rep-resentations of our suppliers regarding the presence of RoHS substances in these parts and materials. Our...
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• Do not remove the factory-installed labels from the drive or cover them with additional labels. Removal voids the warranty. Some factory-installed labels contain information needed to service the drive. Other labels are used to seal out dirt and contamination. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
For installations which require cables, you can connect the drive as illustrated in Figure 4. Signal connector Power connector Signal cable Power cable Figure 4. Attaching SATA cabling Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA drives support latching SATA connectors. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
[1] Dimensions per SFF-8301 specification 2 x 3.750 (2 x 95.25) 2 x 1.625 (2 x 41.28) [1] 2 x 1.750 (2 x 44.45) 4.000 (101.6) Figure 5. Mounting dimensions—top, side and end view Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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Attachment” specification. Hot-Plug compatibility Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA drives incorporate connectors which enable you to hot plug these drives in accor- dance with the Serial ATA II: Extension to Serial ATA 1.0a specification. This specification can be downloaded from www.serialata.org.
3. There are three power pins for each voltage. One pin from each voltage is used for pre-charge when installed in a blind-mate backplane configuration. 4. All used voltage pins (V ) must be terminated. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
Words 54–58, 64–70 and 88 are valid 0007 Number of current logical cylinders xxxx Number of current logical heads xxxx Number of current logical sectors per logical track xxxx 57–58 Current capacity in sectors xxxx Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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Ultra DMA support and current mode (see note following this table) xx3F Security erase time 0000 Enhanced security erase time 0000 Master password revision code FFFE Hardware reset value xxxx (see description following this table) 95–99 ATA-reserved 0000 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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Ultra DMA mode 2 is currently active. Ultra DMA mode 3 is currently active. Ultra DMA mode 4 is currently active. Ultra DMA mode 5 is currently active. Ultra DMA mode 6 is currently active. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
Enable read look-ahead (read cache) feature (default). Report full capacity available Note. At power-on, or after a hardware or software reset, the default values of the features are as indi- cated above. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
S.M.A.R.T. Disable Operations S.M.A.R.T. Return Status Note. If an appropriate code is not written to the Features Register, the command is aborted and 0x 04 (abort) is written to the Error register. Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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Seagate Service Centers Presales Support Our Presales Support staff can help you determine which Seagate products are best suited for your specific application or computer system, as well as product availability and compatibility. Technical Support Seagate technical support is available to assist you online at support.seagate.com...
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Seagate Customer Service Operations (CSO) representative for warranty- related issues. Resellers or end users of drive products should contact their place of purchase or Seagate warranty service for assistance. Have your serial number and model or part number available.
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Conducted RF immunity 18 Format Track 29 Configuring the drive 23 Formatted capacity 10 connectors 24 Formatted Gbytes 4 Corrosive environment 21 CSA C22.2 (950) 19 current 4 Gbytes 10 cycles 18 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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Read Sectors Without Retries 29 MIC 19 Read Verify Sectors 29 mounting 25 Read Verify Sectors Extended 29 mounting screws 16 Read Verify Sectors Without Retries 29 mounting the drive 23 read/write actuator arm 13 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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Vibration, operating 5 Serial ATA (SATA) interface 27 voltage 13 serial ATA ports 2 Voltage dips, interrupts 18 Servo electronics 13 Voltage tolerance 4 servo electronics 13 Set Features 30 Set Max Address 30 Barracuda 7200.8 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. F...
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