Seagate ST9500423AS Manual

Product ManualMomentus 7200-RPMGEN-5100610629Rev. AApril 2010Standard Models ST9750422ASST9750420ASST9750420ASGST9640422ASST9640421ASST9640420ASGST950

4 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A3.0 Drive specificationsUnless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditions, at 25°C, an

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 5Table 1: Drive specifications for 750, 640 and 500 GB modelsDrive specificationST9750422AS ST9750421AS ST9750420AS S

6 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 73.2 Formatted capacity Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sectorST9750422AS, ST9750421AS, ST9750

8 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A3.5 Recording and interface technologyInterface Serial ATA (SATA)Recording method PerpendicularRecording density BPI

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 93.7 Seek timeSeek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times are measured using

10 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A3.9 Power specificationsThe drive receives DC power (+5V) through a native SATA power connector.3.9.1 Power consumpt

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 113.9.1.1 Typical current profileFigure 1. Typical +5V only startup and operation current profile

12 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A3.9.2 Conducted noiseInput noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply across an equivalent 15-ohm resi

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 133.9.4 Power-management modesThe drive provides programmable power management to provide greater energy efficiency. I

Revision history© 2010 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved.Publication number: 100610629, Rev. A, April 2010Seagate, Seagate Technology and th

14 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A3.10 Environmental specificationsThis section provides the temperature, humidity, shock, and vibration specification

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 153.10.6.2 Nonoperating shockThe nonoperating shock level that the drive can experience without incurring physical dam

16 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A3.12 Electromagnetic immunityWhen properly installed in a representative host system, the drive operates without err

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 173.13.1 Free Fall Protection featureThe Free Fall Protection feature provides enhanced data protection against shock

18 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A3.14.3 FCC verificationThese drives are intended to be contained solely within a personal computer or similar enclos

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 193.15 Environmental protectionSeagate designs its products to meet environmental protection requirements worldwide, i

20 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A3.16 Corrosive environmentSeagate electronic drive components pass accelerated corrosion testing equivalent to 10 ye

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 214.0 Configuring and mounting the driveThis section contains the specifications and instructions for configuring and

22 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A4.2 Configuring the driveEach drive on the Serial ATA interface connects in a point-to-point configuration with the

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 234.4 Drive mountingYou can mount the drive using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bottom-

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A iContents1.0 Seagate Technology support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

24 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A5.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interfaceThese drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that supports FIS data tr

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 255.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitionsTable 7 summarizes the signals on the Serial ATA interface and p

26 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A5.3 Supported ATA commandsThe following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive supports. For a deta

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 27S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Autosave B0h/D2hS.M.A.R.T. Enable Operations B0h/D8hS.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Auto Offline

28 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A5.3.1 Identify Device commandThe Identify Device command (command code ECH) transfers information about the drive to

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 2954 Number of current logical cylinders xxxxH55 Number of current logical heads xxxxH56 Number of current logical s

30 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 89 Security erase time 0000H90 Enhanced security erase time 0000H92 Master password revision code FFFEH93 Hardware

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 31Bit Word 880 Ultra DMA mode 0 is supported.1 Ultra DMA mode 1 is supported.2 Ultra DMA mode 2 is supported.3 Ultra D

32 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A5.3.2 Set Features commandThis command controls the implementation of various features that the drive supports. When

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 335.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commandsS.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disc drives. When S.M.A.R.T. is enable

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Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 35IndexAACA 17acoustics 6, 15Active mode 13Address 26AFR 16Agency certification 17Altitude 14Altitude,

36 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. Aguaranteed sectors 7Hhandling 21Handling precautions 21heads 7Height 5height 8humidity 5II/O data-tran

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 37Read/write heads 7Read/write power 5read/write power and current 10Recording density 5, 8Recording method

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Seagate Technology LLC920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066-4544, USAPublication Number: 100610629, Rev. A

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A iiiList of FiguresFigure 1. Typical +5V only startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 11.0 Seagate Technology support servicesSEAGATE ONLINE SUPPORT and SERVICESFor information regarding products and serv

2 Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A2.0 IntroductionThis manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seaga

Momentus Product Manual, Rev. A 32.1 About the Serial ATA interfaceThe Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the traditional (parallel