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Seagate BarraCuda Pro Product Manual, Rev. A 8
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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
ST8000DM005 8000GB 15,628,053,168
4096 physical
(emulated at 512-byte sectors)
ST6000DM004 6000GB 11,721,045,168
Models ST8000DM005 ST6000DM004
Interface SATA
Recording method Perpendicular TGMR
Recording density (kFCI) 2241
Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 362
Areal density (Gb/in
2
) 1333
Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max) 2546
Average data rate, read/write (MB/s) 180
Maximum sustained data transfer rate, OD read (MB/s) 220
I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max) 600