User Manual
Constellation.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G 11
*One GB equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and
formatting.
**During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and power to
operational levels.
2.2 Formatted capacity
*One GB equals one billion 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 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 137 GB.
2.3 Default logical geometry
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.
Drive acoustics, sound power (bels)
Active 2.8 (typical)
Idle** 2.2 (typical)
Nonrecoverable read errors 1 sector per 10
15
bits read
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.62%
Warranty To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the
following web page:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/warranty_&_returns_assistance
From this page, click on the “Is my Drive under Warranty” link. You will be asked to provide
the drive serial number, model number (or part number) and country of purchase.
The system will display the warranty information for your drive.
Load/Unload cycles 300,000 (25°C, 50% rel. humidity) (600,000 design life testing)
Supports Hotplug operation per
Serial ATA Revision 2.6 specification
Yes
Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector
ST91000640NS
ST91000641NS
ST91000642NS
1000 GB 1,953,525,168
512
ST9500620NS
ST9500621NS
ST9500622NS
500 GB 976,773,168
ST9250610NS
ST9250611NS
ST9250612NS
250 GB 488,397,168
Cylinders Read/write heads Sectors per track
16,383 16 63
Drive specification ST91000640NS
ST91000641NS
ST91000642NS
ST9500620NS
ST9500621NS
ST9500622NS
ST9250610NS
ST9250611NS
ST9250612NS