Seagate ST310014ACE, Product Manual

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4 ST310014ACE Product Manual, Rev. B
1.0 Drive specifications
Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient
conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power. For convenience, the phrases
the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to indicate the
ST310014ACE.
1.1 Formatted capacity
1.1.1 Default logical geometry
LBA Mode
When addressing drive in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecu-
tively numbered from 0 to
n–1, where n is the number of guaranteed
sectors as defined above .
1.2 Physical organization
1.3 Recording and interface technology
Drive Model Formatted Gbytes Guaranteed
sectors
Bytes per
sector
ST310014ACE 10.0 20,005,650 512
CHS Mode Cylinders Read/Write
heads
Sectors per
track
ST310014ACE 16,383 16 63
Drive Model Read/Write heads (GMR) Number of discs
ST310014ACE 1 1
Interface ATA
Recording method 96/102 GPRML
Recording density BPI (bits/inch) 376,200
Track density TPI (tracks/inch) 58,000
Areal density (Mbits/inch
2
max) 21,800
Spindle speed (RPM) (
±
0.2%) 5,400
Internal data-transfer rate
(Mbits/sec max)
366