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2 formatted capacity, 1 lba mode, 3 default logical geometry – Seagate SV35 SERIES ST3500410SV User Manual

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SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D

2.2

Formatted capacity


Model

Formatted
capacity*

Guaranteed
sectors


Bytes per sector

ST2000VX002

2TB

3,907,029,168

4096 (512 bytes per
sector emulated at the
interface)

ST31000526SV

1TB

1,953,525,168

512

ST31000525SV

ST3500411SV

500GB

976,773,168

ST3500410SV

ST3250311SV

250GB

488,397,168

*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 the drive 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

Cylinders

Read/write heads

Sectors per track

16,383

16

63

LBA mode
When addressing the drive 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.

2.4

Recording and interface technology

ST2000VX002

ST31000526SV, ST31000525SV,
ST3500411SV, ST3500410SV,
ST3250311SV

Interface

Serial ATA (SATA)

Serial ATA (SATA)

Recording method

Perpendicular

Perpendicular

Recording density- kb/in (max)

1632kb/in

1,474 kbits/in max

Track density- ktracks/in (avg)

274 ktracks/in avg

236 ktracks/in avg

Areal density- Gb/in

2

(avg)

422 Gb/in

2

345 Gbits/in

2

avg

Internal data transfer rate

1928 Mb/s max

1628 Mbits/sec max

Sustained data transfer rate

(max)

144

140

I/O data-transfer rate (max)

600

300