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2.5 HDD P
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M
ANUAL
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S
PECIFICATIONS
2.1.1
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.
Refer to
Configuring and Mounting the Drive
(words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-bit addressing
support of drives with capacities over 137 GB.
2.2
P
HYSICAL ORGANIZATION
Drive model
Read/write heads
Number of disks
ST500VT000 and ST500VT001
2
1
ST320VT000
ST250VT000
2.3
R
ECORDING AND
I
NTERFACE
T
ECHNOLOGY
Recording method
Perpendicular
Recording density
1875 Kb/in
Track density
375 ktracks/in avg
Areal density
670 Gb/in
2
avg
Spindle speed
5400 RPM +/- 0.2%
Sustained data transfer rate
100 MB/s max
I/O data-transfer rate
600 MB/s max
2.4
P
HYSICAL
C
HARACTERISTICS
Height
6.8 +/- 0.2 mm (0.268 +/-.008 in)
Width
69.85 +/- 0.25 mm (2.750 +/- 0.010 in)
Length
100.35 +0.20 / -0.25 mm (3.951 +0.008 / -0.010 in)
Typical weight
<95 g (0.209 lb)
ST500VT000, ST320VT000
AND
ST250VT000
Cache buffer
16 MB (16,192 KB)
ST500VT001
32MB (32,384 KB)
Interface
Serial ATA (SATA)
All models