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Pipeline HD Mini Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. E 5

2.2

Formatted capacity

Model

Formatted capacity*

Guaranteed sectors

Bytes per sector

ST9500323CS

500 Gbytes

976,773,168

512

ST9320328CS

320 Gbytes

625,142,448

ST9250311CS

250 Gbytes

488,397,168

ST91603110CS

160 Gbytes

312,581,808

*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

Cylinders

Read/write heads

Sectors per track

16,383

16

63

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.