Seagate FireCuda Product Manual, Rev. A
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Drive Specifications
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
2.5
Physical characteristics
Interface
SATA
Recording method
TGMR
Recording density
(kFCI)
1807
Track density
(ktracks/inch avg)
352
Areal density
(Gb/in
2
)
625
Spindle speed
(RPM)
7200 ± 0.2%
Internal data transfer rate
(Mb/s max)
2147
Maximum sustained data transfer rate, OD read
(MB/s
210
Average data rate, read/write
(MB/s)
156
I/O data-transfer rate
(MB/s max)
600
Maximum height
2TB
26.1mm / 1.028 in
1TB
20.17mm / 0.7825 in
Maximum width (all models)
101.6mm / 4.0 in (± 0.010 in)
Maximum length (all models)
146.99mm / 5.787 in
Typical weight
2TB
535g / 1.18 lb
1TB
400g / 0.88 lb
Cache buffer
64MB (64,768kb)
