Seagate SkyHawk Product Manual, Rev. A
10
Drive Specifications
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 137GB.
2.3
Default logical geometry
•
Cylinders
: 16,383
•
Read/write heads
: 16
•
Sectors per track
: 63
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
8TB
8000GB
15,628,053,168
4096
6TB
6000GB
11,721,045,168
4TB
4000GB
7,814,037,168
3TB
3000GB
5,860,533,168
2TB
2000GB
3,907,029,168
Models
6TB & 3TB
8TB, 4TB & 2TB
Interface
SATA
Recording method
SMR
Recording density
(kBPI)
2197
Track density
(ktracks/inch avg)
540
Areal density
(Gb/in
2
)
900
1186
Interface transfer rate
(MB/s)
600
Data transfer rate
(MB/s)
up to 180
