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2 formatted capacity, 1 lba mode, 3 default logical geometry – Seagate SV35.3 Series Serial ATA ST3750330SV User Manual

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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

ST31000340SV

1000 Gbytes

1,953,525,168

512

ST3750330SV

750 Gbytes

1,465,149,168

512

ST3500320SV

500 Gbytes

976,773,168

512

ST3250310SV

250 Gbytes

488,397,168

512

Cylinders

Read/write heads

Sectors per track

16,383

16

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