User Manual

Seagate Exos 7E2000 v3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B 8
1.0 Scope
This manual describes Seagate
®
Exos
™
7E2000 v3 SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) disk drives.
Exos 7E2000 v3 drives support the SAS Protocol specifications to the extent described in this manual. The SAS Interface Manual (part number
100293071) describes the general SAS characteristics of this and other Seagate SAS drives. The Self-Encrypting Drive Reference Manual, part
number 100515636, describes the interface, general operation, and security features available on Self-Encrypting Drive models.
Product data communicated in this manual is specific only to the model numbers listed in this manual. The data listed in this manual may not be
predictive of future generation specifications or requirements. If designing a system which will use one of the models listed or future generation
products and need further assistance, please contact our global support services group as shown in See “Seagate® Technology Support Services” on
page 7.
Unless otherwise stated, the information in this manual applies to standard and Self-Encrypting Drive models.
For more information on FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification see Section 6.0 on page 35.
For product certification status visit - http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401vend.htm.
Sector
Size
Standard
models
Self-Encrypting Drive
(SED) models
FIPS 140-2 Level 2
(SED-FIPS) models
4096N
ST2000NX0263 ST2000NX0323 ST2000NX0333
ST1000NX0323 ST1000NX0363
512E
ST2000NX0273 ST2000NX0343 ST2000NX0353
ST1000NX0333 ST1000NX0373
512N
ST2000NX0433
ST1000NX0453
Note
Throughout this manual, 512E represents 512 “emulation” sector drives, 512N
represents 512 “native” sector drives and 4096N represents 4096 “native”
sector drives.
Note
Previous generations of Seagate Self-Encrypting Drive models were called Full
Disk Encryption (FDE) models before a differentiation between drive-based
encryption and other forms of encryption was necessary
Note
The Self-Encrypting Drive models indicated on the cover of this product manual have
provisions for “Security of Data at Rest” based on the standards defined by the
Trusted Computing Group (see www.trustedcomputin
ggroup.org).