Seagate ST500VM000 - 2.2-2.4 Technical Specifications

Seagate Video 3.5 HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 9
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2.2 Formatted capacity
* One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion 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 137GBs.
2.3 Default logical geometry
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.
2.4 Recording and interface technology
Model
Formatted
capacity*
Guaranteed
sectors
Bytes per sector
ST1000VM002 1TB 1,953,525,168 4096
(512 bytes per sector emulated
at the interface)
ST500VM000 500GB 976,773,168
Cylinders Read/write heads Sectors per track
16,383 16 63
ST1000VM002, ST500VM000
Interface SATA
Recording method Perpendicular
Recording density (max) 1745KBPI
Track density (avg) 331ktracks/in
Areal density (avg) 566Gb/in
2
Spindle speed (RPM) 5900 ± 0.2%
Internal data transfer rate (max) 1967Mb/s
Sustained data transfer rate (max) 151MB/s
I/O data-transfer rate (max) 600MB/s