Operation Manual

Seagate Desktop HDD Product Manual, Rev. Y 10
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Table 2 Drive specifications summary for 500GB, 320GB and 250GB models
Drive Specification* ST500DM002 ST320DM000 ST250DM000
Formatted capacity** 500GB 320GB 250GB
Guaranteed sectors 976,773,168 625,142,448 488,397,168
Heads 2/1
Disks 1
Bytes per sector
(4K physical emulated at 512-byte sectors)
4096
Default sectors per track 63
Default read/write heads 16
Default cylinders 16,383
Recording density (max) 1413kb/in
Track density (avg) 236ktracks/in
Areal density (avg) 329Gb/in
2
Spindle speed 7200 RPM
Internal data transfer rate (max) 1695Mb/s
Average Data Rate, read/write (MB/s) 125MB/s
Maximum sustained data transfer rate, OD read 144MB/s
I/O data-transfer rate (max.) 600MB/s
Cache buffer 16 MB
Height (max) 19.98mm / 0.787 in
Width (max) 101.6mm / 4.0 in (+
0.010 in)
Length (max) 146.99mm / 5.787 in
Weight (typical) 415g / 0.915 lb
Average latency 4.16ms
Power-on to ready (max) <8.5s
Standby to ready (max) <8.5s
Average seek, read (typical) <8.5ms
Average seek, write (typical) <9.5ms
Startup current (typical) 12V 2.0A
Voltage tolerance (including noise) 5V: ±5%
12V: +10% / -7.5%
Non-Operating ambient temperature (°C) –40° to 70
Operating ambient temperature (min °C) 0
Operating temperature (Drive case max °C) 60
Temperature gradient 20°C per hour max (operating)
30°C per hour max (non-operating)
Relative humidity 5% to 95% (operating)
5% to 95% (non-operating)
Relative humidity gradient (max) 30% per hour
Wet bulb temperature (max) 26°C max (operating)
29°C max (nonoperating)
Altitude, operating –304.8m to 3048m
(–1000 ft to 10,000+ ft)
Altitude, non-operating
(below mean sea level, max)
–304.8m to 12,192m
(–1000 ft to 40,000+ ft)
Operational shock (max) 70 Gs at 2ms
Non-operational shock (max) 350 Gs at 2ms
Vibration, operating 2Hz to 22Hz: 0.25 Gs, Limited displacement
22Hz to 350Hz: 0.50 Gs
350Hz to 500Hz: 0.25 Gs
Vibration, non-operating 5Hz to 22Hz: 3.0 Gs
22Hz to 350Hz: 3.0 Gs
350Hz to 500Hz: 3.0 Gs