Specification Sheet

Seagate BarraCuda Product Manual, Rev. D 10
www.seagate.com Drive Specifications
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.
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
Model Formatted capacity* Guaranteed sectors Bytes per sector
8TB 8000GB 15,628,053,168
4096
6TB 6000GB 11,721,045,168
4TB 4000GB 7,814,037,168
3TB 3000GB 5,860,533,168
2TB 2000GB 3,907,029,168
Interface SATA
Recording method TGMR
Recording density (kBPI) 2294
Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 540
Areal density (Gb/in
2
)1203
Interface transfer rate (MB/s) 600
Data transfer rate (MB/s) up to 190