Seagate ST5000LM000 - LBA Mode; Physical Organization; Recording and Interface Technology; Physical Characteristics

Seagate BarraCuda Product Manual, Rev. E (Draft 2) 8
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.
Refer to Unpacking, Configuring and Mounting the Drive on page 17 (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-bit
addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 GB.
2.3 Physical organization
2.4 Recording and Interface Technology
2.5 Physical Characteristics
Drive model Read/write heads Number of discs
5TB models
10 5
4TB models
10 / 8 5 / 4
3TB models
8 4
Interface Serial ATA (SATA)
Recording method Perpendicular
Recording density
2254 Kb/in
Track density
580 Ktracks/in avg
Areal density
1307 Gb/in2 avg
Spindle speed
5400 RPM
Data transfer rate (up to)
140 MB/s
Interface
SATA 6Gb/s
All models
Height
15.0 +0.5/- 0.25 mm (0.59 +0.008/-0.010 in)
Width
69.85 +/- 0.25 mm (2.750 +/- 0.010 in)
Length
100.35 +0.20 / -0.25 mm (3.951 +0.008 / -0.010 in)
Weight (max)
190 g (0.42lb)
Cache buffer 128 MB (129,536 KB)