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1 formatted capacity, 1 lba mode, 2 default logical geometry – Seagate Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA ST31000533CS User Manual

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Pipeline HD Pro Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. C

2.1

Formatted capacity

*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment

and formatting.

2.1.1

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 137 Gbytes.

2.2

Default logical geometry

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.

2.3

Recording and interface technology

Model

Formatted

capacity*

Guaranteed

sectors

Bytes per sector

ST31000533CS

1000 Gbytes

1,953,525,168

512

Cylinders

Read/write heads

Sectors per track

16,383

16

63

ST31000533CS

Interface

Serial ATA (SATA)

Recording method

Perpendicular

Recording density (kbits/inch max)

1300

Track density (ktracks/inch avg)

182

Areal density (Gbits/inch

2

avg)

228

Spindle speed (RPM)

7,200 ± 0.2%

Internal data transfer rate (Mbits/sec max)

1520

Sustained data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)

120

I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)

300