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2 formatted capacity, 1 lba mode, 3 default logical geometry – Seagate U Series 9 CE User Manual

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U Series 9 ce Product Manual, Rev. F

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2.2

Formatted capacity

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 4.1.2, "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

2.4

Physical organization

2.5

Recording and interface technology

Model

Formatted

capacity

Guaranteed

sectors

Bytes per sector

ST3160022ACE

160 Gbytes

312,581,808

512

ST3120025ACE

120 Gbytes

234,441,648

512

ST380012ACE

80 Gbytes

156,301,488

512

Cylinders

Read/write heads

Sectors per track

16,383

16

63

Model

Read/write heads

Number of discs

ST3160022ACE

4

2

ST3120025ACE

3

2

ST380012ACE

2

1

Interface

ATA

Recording method

16/17 EPRML

Recording density BPI (bits/inch max)

595,000

Track density TPI (tracks/inch max)

94,600

Areal density (Mbits/inch

2

max)

56.3

Internal data-transfer rate OD (Mbytes/sec max)

85.4

Sustained data transfer rate OD (Mbytes/sec max)

48

I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)

100 (Ultra DMA mode 5)

Interleave

1:1

Cache buffer

2 Mbyte (2,048 kbytes)