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2 formatted capacity, 1 lba mode, 3 default logical geometry – Seagate SV35 SERIES ST3250824SV User Manual

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SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C

2.2

Formatted capacity

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

and formatting.

2.2.1

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 137 Gbytes.

2.3

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.

Model

Formatted capacity*

Guaranteed sectors

Bytes per sector

ST3500641SV

500 Gbytes

976,773,168

512

ST3250824SV

250 Gbytes

488,397,168

512

ST3160812SV

160 Gbytes

312,581,808

512

Cylinders

Read/write heads

Sectors per track

16,383

16

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