Seagate Exos 7E8 SATA Product Manual, Rev. K
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2.2.2
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 6.3.1, "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
Recording and interface technology
2.4
Start/stop times
Table 4
Sector Configuration descriptors format
Offset
Type
Description
0
Byte
Sector Configuration descriptor flags
Bit Description
7 DESCRIPTOR VALID bit
6:0 Reserved
1
Byte
LOGICAL TO PHYSICAL SECTOR RELATIONSHIP SETTING field
2...3
Word
DESCRIPTOR CHECK field
4...7
DWord
LOGICAL SECTOR SIZE SETTING field
8...15
Bytes
Reserved
Interface
Serial ATA (SATA)
Recording method
Perpendicular
Recording density, KBPI (Kb/in max)
2509
Track density, KTPI (ktracks/in, 0 Skew)
371
Areal density (Gb/in
2
, @ 0 skew mid-disk)
930
Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%)
7200
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max)
2850
Sustained data transfer rate (MiB/s max) 8TB models
238 (249 MB/s max)
Sustained data transfer rate (MiB/s max) 6TB models
234 (245 MB/s max)
Sustained data transfer rate (MiB/s max) 4TB, 2TB models
216 (226 MB/s max)
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max)
600 (Ultra DMA mode 5)
Power-on to Ready (sec) (typ/max)
23/30
Standby to Ready (sec) (typ/max)
23/30
Ready to spindle stop (sec) (max)
23
