Seagate DB35.3 Series Serial ATA Manuel

Product ManualDB35.4 Series SATA100477758Rev. CMay 2008ST3250310CS

4 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. CTable 1: Drive specifications summary for 250 Gbyte modelDrive specification ST3250310CSFormatted capacity

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 5*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary dep

6 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C2.2 Formatted capacity *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessib

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 72.5 Physical characteristics 2.6 Seek timeSeek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient t

8 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C2.8 Power specificationsThe drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. Se

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 92.8.1.1 Typical current profilesFigure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile Figure 2. Typica

10 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C2.8.4 Power-management modesThe drive provides programmable power management to provide greater energy eff

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 112.9 Environmental specifications2.9.1 Drive case temperatureAbove 1,000 feet (305 meters), the maximum tem

12 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C2.9.6 VibrationAll vibration specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input vibra

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 132.10 Acoustics emissionsDrive emission of sound is measured consistent with the ECMA-74 and its referenced

Revision historyCopyright © 2007-2008 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.Publication number: 100477758, Rev. C May 2008Seag

14 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C2.12 Reliability2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR)The product shall achieve an Annualized Failure Rate (

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 15Korean RRLIf these drives have the Korea Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) logo, they comply

16 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C2.14 Environmental protectionSeagate designs its products to meet environmental protection requirements wo

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 173.0 Configuring and mounting the driveThis section contains the specifications and instructions for config

18 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C3.2 Configuring the driveEach drive on the Serial ATA interface connects point-to-point with the Serial AT

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 193.4 Drive mountingYou can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting holes

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DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 214.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interfaceThese drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that supports F

22 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitionsTable 5 summarizes the signals on the Serial ATA inter

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 234.3 Supported ATA commandsThe following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive supports.

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C iContents1.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

24 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. CSecurity Erase Unit F4HSecurity Freeze F5HSecurity Set Password F1HSecurity Unlock F2HSeek 70HSet Features

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 254.3.1 Identify Device commandThe Identify Device command (command code ECH) transfers information about th

26 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C60–61 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available(see Section 2.2 for related information)*Note

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 27Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not supported12

28 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. CNote. See the bit descriptions below for words 63, 88, and 93 of the Identify Drive data. Description (if

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 294.3.2 Set Features commandThis command controls the implementation of various features that the drive supp

30 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commandsS.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disc drives. When S.M.A.R.T.

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 315.0 Seagate Technology support servicesOnline servicesInternetFor information regarding Seagate products a

32 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. CCustomer Service OperationsWarranty ServiceSeagate offers worldwide customer support for Seagate products.

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 33IndexAACA 15acceleration 12acoustics 13Active 10Active mode 10AFR 14Agency certification 14a

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34 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. CIdentify Device command 25Idle 10, 23Idle Immediate 23Idle mode 8, 10IEC950 14Information Te

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 35S.M.A.R.T. Save Attribute Values 24S.M.A.R.T. Write Log sector 24Safety certification 14SATA 21scr

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Seagate Technology LLC920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066-4544, USAPublication Number: 100477758, Rev. C, Printed in U.S.A.

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C iiiList of FiguresFigure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 11.0 IntroductionThis manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the follo

2 DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C1.1 About the Serial ATA interfaceThe Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the traditional

DB35.4 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C 32.0 Drive specificationsUnless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditions, a