Operation Manual
Seagate Desktop HDD Product Manual, Rev. Y 11
www.seagate.com Drive Specifications
* All specifications above are based on native configurations.
** One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion 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 and 1TB equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating
environment and formatting.
Drive acoustics, sound power
Idle*** 2.2 bels (typical)
2.3 bels (max)
Seek 2.3 bels (typical)
2.4 bels (max)
Non-recoverable read errors 1 per 10
14
bits read
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) <1.0% based on 2400 POH
Rated Workload Average annualized workload rating: <55 TB/year.
The AFR specification for the product assumes the I/O workload does not exceed the
average annualized workload rate limit of 55 TB/year. Workloads exceeding the annualized
rate may degrade the product AFR and impact reliability as experienced by the particular
application. The average annualized workload rate limit is in units of TB per calendar year.
Warranty To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the following
web page: http://www.sea
gate.com/support/warranty-and-replacements/
From this page, click on “Is my Drive under Warranty”. Users 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 the drive.
Contact start-stop cycles 50,000 at 25°C, 50% rel. humidity
Supports Hotplug operation per the
Serial ATA Revision 3.2 specification
Yes
Model
Formatted
capacity*
Guaranteed
sectors
Bytes per sector
ST3000DM001
ST3000DM002
3000GB 5,860,533,168
4096
ST2000DM001
ST2000DM002
2000GB 3,907,029,168
ST1000DM003
ST1000DM004
1000GB 1,953,525,168
ST500DM002 500GB 976,773,168
ST320DM000 320GB 625,142,448
ST250DM000 250GB 488,397,168
Table 2 Drive specifications summary for 500GB, 320GB and 250GB models (continued)
Drive Specification* ST500DM002 ST320DM000 ST250DM000










