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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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