Seagate ST4000NC001 Manual

Product ManualSeagate Terascale HDD®100724268Rev. BMay 2013Standard ModelST4000NC001Instant Secure Erase ModelST4000NC000

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 6 www.seagate.com2.5 Seek timeSeek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature.

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 7 www.seagate.com* During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 8 www.seagate.com2.7.1.1 Typical current profiles4TB model current profileFigure 1 Typical 4TB model 5V -

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 9 www.seagate.com2.7.2 Conducted noiseInput noise ripple is measured at the host system power supply acro

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 10 www.seagate.com2.7.4.1 Extended Power Conditions - PowerChoiceTMUtilizing the load/unload architecture

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 11 www.seagate.comPowerChoice Manufacture Default Power Condition Timer ValuesDefault power condition tim

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 12 www.seagate.com2.8 Environmental limitsTemperature and humidity values experienced by the drive must b

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 13 www.seagate.com2.8.3 Altitude2.8.4 ShockAll shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted secu

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 14 www.seagate.com2.9 AcousticsDrive acoustics are measured as overall A-weighted acoustic sound power le

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 15 www.seagate.com2.12 Reliability2.12.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MT

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Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 16 www.seagate.com2.13 Agency certification2.13.1 Safety certificationThese products are certified to mee

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 17 www.seagate.com2.14 Environmental protectionSeagate designs its products to meet environmental protect

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 18 www.seagate.com2.16 Product warrantyBeginning on the date of shipment to the customer and continuing f

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 19 www.seagate.com3.0 Configuring and Mounting the DriveThis section contains the specifications and inst

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 20 www.seagate.com3.4 Drive mountingYou can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the s

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 21 www.seagate.com4.0 SATA InterfaceThese drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA (SATA) interface th

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 22 www.seagate.com4.2 SATA device plug connector pin definitionsTable 5 summarizes the signals on the SAT

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 23 www.seagate.com4.3 Supported ATA commandsThe following table lists SATA standard commands that the dri

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 24 www.seagate.comSecurity Set Password F1HSecurity Unlock F2HSeek 70HSet Features EFHSet Max Address F9H

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 25 www.seagate.com4.3.1 Identify Device commandThe Identify Device command (command code ECH) transfers i

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B iContentsSeagate® Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 26 www.seagate.com68 Minimum PIO cycle time with IORDY flow control (120 nsec) 0078H69–74 ATA-reserved 0

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 27 www.seagate.comBit Word 840 SMART error login is supported.1 SMART self-test is supported.2 Media seri

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 28 www.seagate.com4.3.2 Set Features commandThis command controls the implementation of various features

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 29 www.seagate.com4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commandsS.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disk driv

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 30 AACA 16acoustics 14Active 9Active mode 9actuator arm 6Agency certification 16altitude 13ambient 12Amb

31 Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B Nonoperating vibration 13Nonrecoverable read errors 15NOP 23OOperating power 6Operating shock 13Operat

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 32 track density 5Track-to-track 6Track-to-track seek time 6UUL60950-1 16VVibration 13voltage 6Voltage d

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Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B iiFiguresFigure 1 Typical 4TB model 5V - 6Gb/s startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . .

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 1For information regarding online support and services, visit http://www.seagate.com/about/contact-us/t

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 2 www.seagate.com1.0 IntroductionThis manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifica

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 3 www.seagate.com2.0 Drive SpecificationsUnless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under am

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 4 www.seagate.com* One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion bytes when referring to ha

Seagate Terascale HDD Product Manual, Rev. B 5 www.seagate.com2.2.1 LBA modeWhen addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecu