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Product Manual

Savvio

®

15K.3 SAS

Standard Models

ST9300653SS

ST9146853SS

Self-Encrypting Drive Models

ST9300553SS

ST9146753SS

SED FIPS140-2 Models

ST9300453SS

ST9146653SS

100629381

Rev. B

April 2011

Revision

Rev. A

Rev. B

Revision history

Date Sheets affected or comments

12/15/10 Initial release.

04/12/11 26, 31, 35, 38, 41 & 50-51.

© 2011, Seagate Technology LLC All rights reserved.

Publication number: 100629381, Rev. B April 2011

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LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Savvio and SeaTools are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. The FIPS logo is a certification mark of NIST, which does not imply product endorsement by NIST, the U.S., or Canadian governments. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Technology LLC. Call 877-PUB-TEK1 (877-782-8351) to request permission.

One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes.

Your computer's operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications.

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Contents

Seagate Technology support services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Applicable standards and reference documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

3.1

3.2

Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

3.1.1

3.1.2

3.1.3

Electromagnetic compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Electromagnetic compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3.1.4

China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Reference documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

General description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

4.1

4.2

4.3

4.4

4.5

4.6

4.7

Standard features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Media description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Formatted capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Programmable drive capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Factory installed options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Performance characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.4

5.5

Internal drive characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Seek performance characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

5.2.1

5.2.2

Access time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Format command execution time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

5.2.3

General performance characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Start/stop time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Prefetch/multi-segmented cache control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Cache operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

5.5.1

5.5.2

Caching write data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Prefetch operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Reliability specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

6.1

6.2

Error rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

6.1.1

6.1.2

6.1.3

Recoverable Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Unrecoverable Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Seek errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

6.1.4

Interface errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Reliability and service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

6.2.1

6.2.2

Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) . . . . 16

Preventive maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

6.2.3

6.2.4

6.2.5

6.2.6

6.2.7

Hot plugging the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

S.M.A.R.T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Thermal monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Drive Self Test (DST) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Product warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Physical/electrical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

7.1

7.2

7.3

PowerChoice

TM power management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

7.1.1

PowerChoice reporting methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

AC power requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

DC power requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

7.3.1

Conducted noise immunity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

7.3.2

7.3.3

Power sequencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Current profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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9.0

7.4

7.5

7.6

Power dissipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Environmental limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

7.5.1

7.5.2

Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Relative humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

7.5.3

7.5.4

7.5.5

7.5.6

Effective altitude (sea level) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Shock and vibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Air cleanliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Corrosive environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

7.5.7

7.5.8

Acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Electromagnetic susceptibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Mechanical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

About FIPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

About self-encrypting drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

9.1

9.2

Data encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Controlled access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

9.2.1

9.2.2

Admin SP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Locking SP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

9.3

9.4

9.5

9.6

9.7

9.8

9.9

9.2.3

Default password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Random number generator (RNG). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Drive locking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Data bands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Cryptographic erase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Authenticated firmware download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Power requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Supported commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

9.10

RevertSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

10.0

Defect and error management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

10.1

Drive internal defects/errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

10.2

Drive error recovery procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

10.3

SAS system errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

10.4

Background Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

10.5

Media Pre-Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

10.6

Deferred Auto-Reallocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

10.7

Idle Read After Write . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

10.8

Protection Information (PI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

10.8.1

Levels of PI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

10.8.2

Setting and determining the current Type Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

10.8.3

Identifying a Protection Information drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

11.0

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

11.1

Drive orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

11.2

Cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

11.3

Drive mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

11.4

Grounding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

12.0

Interface requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

12.1

SAS features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

12.1.1

Task management functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

12.1.2

Task management responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

12.2

Dual port support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

12.3

SCSI commands supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

12.3.1

Inquiry data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

12.3.2

Mode Sense data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

12.4

Miscellaneous operating features and conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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12.4.1

SAS physical interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

12.4.2

Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

12.4.3

Connector requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

12.4.4

Electrical description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

12.4.5

Pin descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

12.4.6

SAS transmitters and receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

12.4.7

Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

12.5

Signal characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

12.5.1

Ready LED Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

12.5.2

Differential signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

12.6

SAS-2 Specification compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

12.7

Additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

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List of Figures

Figure 1.

Figure 2.

Figure 3.

Figure 4.

Figure 5.

Figure 6.

Figure 7.

Figure 8.

Current profile for 300GB models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Current profile for 146GB models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

300GB models (6Gb) DC current and power vs. input/output operations per second . . . . . . 29

300GB models (3Gb) DC current and power vs. input/output operations per second . . . . . . 29

146GB models (6Gb) DC current and power vs. input/output operations per second . . . . . . 30

146GB models (3Gb) DC current and power vs. input/output operations per second . . . . . . 30

Location of the HDA temperature check point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Recommended mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Figure 9.

Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Figure 10.

Example of FIPS tamper evidence labels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Figure 11.

Physical interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Figure 12.

Air flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Figure 13.

Physical interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Figure 14.

SAS device plug dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Figure 15.

SAS device plug dimensions (detail) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Figure 16.

SAS transmitters and receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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1.0

Seagate Technology support services

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For information regarding products and services, visit http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/

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Presales & Technical support

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2.0

Scope

This manual describes Seagate Technology ® LLC, Savvio ® 15K.3 SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) disc drives.

Savvio drives support the SAS Protocol specifications to the extent described in this manual. The SAS Inter-

face 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 you are designing a system which will use one of the models listed or future generation products and need further assistance, please contact your Field Applications Engineer (FAE) or our global support services group as

shown in Section 1.0.

Unless otherwise stated, the information in this manual applies to standard and Self-Encrypting Drive models.

Model Number

ST9300653SS

ST9300553SS

ST9300453SS

ST9146853SS

ST9146753SS

ST9146653SS

Self-Encrypting Drive (SED)

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certified

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

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.trustedcomputinggroup.org).

For more information on FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification see Section 8.0 on page 36.

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3.0

Applicable standards and reference documentation

The drives documented in this manual have been developed as system peripherals to the highest standards of design and construction. The drives depend on host equipment to provide adequate power and environment for optimum performance and compliance with applicable industry and governmental regulations. Special attention must be given in the areas of safety, power distribution, shielding, audible noise control, and temperature regulation. In particular, the drives must be securely mounted to guarantee the specified performance

characteristics. Mounting by bottom holes must meet the requirements of Section 11.3

3.1

Standards

The Savvio family complies with Seagate standards as noted in the appropriate sections of this manual and the

Seagate SAS Interface Manual, part number 100293071.

The drives are recognized in accordance with UL 60950-1 as tested by UL, CSA 60950-1 as tested by CSA, and EN60950-1 as tested by TUV.

The security features of Self-Encrypting Drive models are based on the “TCG Storage Architecture Core Specification” and the “TCG Storage Workgroup Security Subsystem Class: Enterprise_A” specification with additional vendor-unique features as noted in this product manual.

3.1.1

Electromagnetic compatibility

The drive, as delivered, is designed for system integration and installation into a suitable enclosure prior to use. The drive is supplied as a subassembly and is not subject to Subpart B of Part 15 of the FCC Rules and

Regulations nor the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications.

The design characteristics of the drive serve to minimize radiation when installed in an enclosure that provides reasonable shielding. The drive is capable of meeting the Class B limits of the FCC Rules and Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications when properly packaged; however, it is the user’s responsibility to assure that the drive meets the appropriate EMI requirements in their system. Shielded I/O cables may be required if the enclosure does not provide adequate shielding. If the I/O cables are external to the enclosure, shielded cables should be used, with the shields grounded to the enclosure and to the host controller.

3.1.1.1

Electromagnetic susceptibility

As a component assembly, the drive is not required to meet any susceptibility performance requirements. It is the responsibility of those integrating the drive within their systems to perform those tests required and design their system to ensure that equipment operating in the same system as the drive or external to the system

does not adversely affect the performance of the drive. See Tables 2 and 3, DC power requirements.

Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B 3

3.1.2

Electromagnetic compliance

Seagate uses an independent laboratory to confirm compliance with the directives/standards for CE Marking and C-Tick Marking. The drive was tested in a representative system for typical applications. The selected system represents the most popular characteristics for test platforms. The system configurations include:

• Typical current use microprocessor

• Keyboard

• Monitor/display

• Printer

• Mouse

Although the test system with this Seagate model complies with the directives/standards, we cannot guarantee that all systems will comply. The computer manufacturer or system integrator shall confirm EMC compliance and provide the appropriate marking for their product.

Electromagnetic compliance for the European Union

If this model has the CE Marking it complies with the European Union requirements of the Electromagnetic

Compatibility Directive 2004/108/EC as put into place on 20 July 2007.

Australian C-Tick

If this model has the C-Tick Marking it complies with the Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 and meets the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirements of Australia’s Spectrum Management Agency (SMA).

Korean KCC

If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo, they comply with paragraph 1 of

Article 11 of the Electromagnetic Compatibility control Regulation and meet the Electromagnetic Compatibility

(EMC) Framework requirements of the Radio Research Laboratory (RRL) Communications Commission,

Republic of Korea.

These drives have been tested and comply with the Electromagnetic Interference/Electromagnetic

Susceptibility (EMI/EMS) for Class B products. Drives are tested in a representative, end-user system by a

Korean-recognized lab.

Taiwanese BSMI

If this model has two Chinese words meaning “EMC certification” followed by an eight digit identification number, as a Marking, it complies with Chinese National Standard (CNS) 13438 and meets the Electromagnetic

Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirements of the Taiwanese Bureau of Standards, Metrology, and Inspection (BSMI).

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3.1.3

European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)

The European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive restricts the presence of chemical substances, including Lead (Pb), in electronic products effective July 2006.

A number of parts and materials in Seagate products are procured from external suppliers. We rely on the representations of our suppliers regarding the presence of RoHS substances in these parts and materials. Our supplier contracts require compliance with our chemical substance restrictions, and our suppliers document their compliance with our requirements by providing material content declarations for all parts and materials for the disk drives documented in this publication. Current supplier declarations include disclosure of the inclusion of any RoHS-regulated substance in such parts or materials.

Seagate also has internal systems in place to ensure ongoing compliance with the RoHS Directive and all laws and regulations which restrict chemical content in electronic products. These systems include standard operating procedures that ensure that restricted substances are not utilized in our manufacturing operations, laboratory analytical validation testing, and an internal auditing process to ensure that all standard operating procedures are complied with.

3.1.4

China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive

中国限制危险物品的指令

This product has an Environmental Protection Use Period (EPUP) of 20 years. The following table contains information mandated by China's "Marking Requirements for Control of Pollution

Caused by Electronic Information Products" Standard.

"O" indicates the hazardous and toxic substance content of the part (at the homogenous material level) is lower than the threshold defined by the China RoHS MCV Standard.

O

表示该部件(于同类物品程度上)所含的危险和有毒物质低于中国RoHS MCV标准所定义的门槛值。

"X" indicates the hazardous and toxic substance content of the part (at the homogenous material level) is over the threshold defined by the China RoHS MCV Standard.

X

表示该部件(于同类物品程度上)所含的危险和有毒物质超出中国RoHS MCV标准所定义的门槛值。

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3.2

Reference documents

SAS Interface Manual

Seagate part number: 100293071

SCSI Commands Reference Manual

Seagate part number: 100293068

Self-Encrypting Drives Reference Manual

Seagate part number: 100515636

ANSI SAS Documents

SFF-8323

SFF-8460

SFF-8470

SFF-8482

3.5” Drive Form Factor with Serial Connector

HSS Backplane Design Guidelines

Multi Lane Copper Connector

SAS Plug Connector

ANSI INCITS.xxx

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-2) Standard (T10/1562-D)

ISO/IEC 14776-xxx SCSI Architecture Model-3 (SAM-4) Standard (T10/1561-D)

ISO/IEC 14776-xxx SCSI Primary Commands-3 (SPC-4) Standard (T10/1416-D)

ISO/IEC 14776-xxx SCSI Block Commands-2 (SBC-3) Standard (T10/1417-D)

ANSI Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) Documents

X3.270-1996 (SCSI-3) Architecture Model

Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Documents (apply to Self-Encrypting Drive models only)

TCG Storage Architecture Core Specification, Rev. 1.0

TCG Storage Security Subsystem Class Enterprise Specification, Rev. 1.0

Specification for Acoustic Test Requirement and Procedures

Seagate part number: 30553-001

In case of conflict between this document and any referenced document, this document takes precedence.

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4.0

General description

Savvio drives provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems including engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. The Serial Attached SCSI interface is designed to meet next-generation computing demands for performance, scalability, flexibility and high-density storage requirements.

Savvio drives are random access storage devices designed to support the Serial Attached SCSI Protocol as described in the ANSI specifications, this document, and the SAS Interface Manual (part number 100293071) which describes the general interface characteristics of this drive. Savvio drives are classified as intelligent peripherals and provide level 2 conformance (highest level) with the ANSI SCSI-1 standard. The SAS connectors, cables and electrical interface are compatible with Serial ATA (SATA), giving future users the choice of populating their systems with either SAS or SATA hard disc drives. This allows you to continue to leverage your existing investment in SCSI while gaining a 6Gb/s serial data transfer rate.

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.trustedcomputinggroup.org).

The head and disc assembly (HDA) is sealed at the factory. Air recirculates within the HDA through a nonreplaceable filter to maintain a contamination-free HDA environment.

Note.

Never disassemble the HDA and do not attempt to service items in the sealed enclosure (heads, media, actuator, etc.) as this requires special facilities. The drive does not contain user-replaceable parts. Opening the HDA for any reason voids your warranty.

Savvio drives use a dedicated landing zone at the innermost radius of the media to eliminate the possibility of destroying or degrading data by landing in the data zone. The heads automatically go to the landing zone when power is removed from the drive.

An automatic shipping lock prevents potential damage to the heads and discs that results from movement during shipping and handling. The shipping lock disengages and the head load process begins when power is applied to the drive.

Savvio drives decode track 0 location data from the servo data embedded on each surface to eliminate mechanical transducer adjustments and related reliability concerns.

The drives also use a high-performance actuator assembly with a low-inertia, balanced, patented, straight arm design that provides excellent performance with minimal power dissipation.

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4.1

Standard features

Savvio drives have the following standard features:

• Perpendicular recording technology

• 1.5 / 3 / 6 Gb Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface

• Integrated dual port SAS controller supporting the SCSI protocol

• Support for SAS expanders and fanout adapters

• Firmware downloadable using the SAS interface

• 128-deep task set (queue)

• Supports up to 32 initiators

• Jumperless configuration

• User-selectable logical block size (512, 520, 524, or 528 bytes per logical block)

• Industry standard SFF 2.5-in dimensions

• Programmable logical block reallocation scheme

• Flawed logical block reallocation at format time

• Programmable auto write and read reallocation

• Reallocation of defects on command (Post Format)

• ECC maximum burst correction length of 520 bits

• No preventive maintenance or adjustments required

• Dedicated head landing zone and automatic shipping lock

• Embedded servo design

• Automatic shipping lock

• Self diagnostics performed when power is applied to the drive

• Zone bit recording (ZBR)

• Vertical, horizontal, or top down mounting

• Dynamic spindle brake

• 64MB data buffer (see Section 5.5)

• Drive Self Test (DST)

• Background Media Scan (BMS)

• Idle Read After Write (IRAW)

• Power Save

Savvio ® 15K.3 SAS Self-Encrypting Drive models have the following additional features:

• Automatic data encryption/decryption

• Controlled access

• Random number generator

• Drive locking

• 16 independent data bands

• Cryptographic erase of user data for a drive that will be repurposed or scrapped

• Authenticated firmware download

4.2

Media description

The media used on the drive has an aluminum substrate coated with a thin film magnetic material, overcoated with a proprietary protective layer for improved durability and environmental protection.

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4.3

Performance

• Firmware-controlled multisegmented cache designed to dynamically adjust segments for enhanced system performance

• 600 MB/s maximum instantaneous data transfers

• 15K RPM spindle. Average latency = 2.0 ms

• Background processing of queue

• Supports start and stop commands (spindle stops spinning)

• Adaptive seek velocity; improved seek performance

Note.

There is no significant performance difference between Self-Encrypting Drive and standard (non-

Self-Encrypting Drive) models.

4.4

Reliability

• Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.44%

• Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of 2,000,000 hours

• Balanced low mass rotary voice coil actuator

• Incorporates industry-standard Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)

• 5-year warranty

4.5

Formatted capacities

Standard OEM models are formatted to 512 bytes per block. The block size is selectable at format time and must be a multiple of 4 bytes. Users having the necessary equipment may modify the data block size before issuing a format command and obtain different formatted capacities than those listed.

To provide a stable target capacity environment and at the same time provide users with flexibility if they choose, Seagate recommends product planning in one of two modes:

Seagate designs capacity points at certain block sizes that Seagate guarantees current and future products will meet. We recommend customers use this capacity in their project planning, as it ensures a stable operating point with backward and forward compatibility from generation to generation. The current guaranteed operating points for this product are:

Capacity (Blocks)

Sector Size

512

520

524

528

Decimal

585,937,500

ST9300653SS

ST9300553SS

ST9300453SS

Hex Decimal

22ECB25C 286,749,488

ST9146853SS

ST9146753SS

ST9146653SS

Hex

11177330

573,653,848 22314358 280,790,185 10BC84A9

566,007,800

557,874,778

21BC97F8

21407E5A

275,154,368

272,662,935

106685C0

10408197

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4.6

Programmable drive capacity

Using the Mode Select command, the drive can change its capacity to something less than maximum. See the

Mode Select (6) parameter list table in the SAS Interface Manual, part number 100293071. A value of zero in the Number of Blocks field indicates that the drive will not change the capacity it is currently formatted to have.

A number other than zero and less than the maximum number of LBAs in the Number of Blocks field changes the total drive capacity to the value in the Number of Blocks field. A value greater than the maximum number of

LBAs is rounded down to the maximum capacity.

4.7

Factory installed options

You may order the following items which are incorporated at the manufacturing facility during production or packaged before shipping. Some of the options available are (not an exhaustive list of possible options):

• Other capacities can be ordered depending on sparing scheme and sector size requested.

• Single-unit shipping pack. The drive is normally shipped in bulk packaging to provide maximum protection against transit damage. Units shipped individually require additional protection as provided by the single unit shipping pack. Users planning single unit distribution should specify this option.

• The Safety and Regulatory Agency Specifications, part number 75789512, is usually included with each standard OEM drive shipped, but extra copies may be ordered.

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5.0

Performance characteristics

This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Savvio drives.

5.1

Internal drive characteristics

ST9300653SS

ST9300553SS

Drive capacity

Read/write data heads

ST9300453SS

300

4

Tracks per surface (total) 107,400

Tracks per in

Peak bits per in

Areal density

Internal data rate

Disk rotation speed

Avg rotational latency

273,000

1601

448

1554 - 2267

15K

2.0

ST9146853SS

ST9146753SS

ST9146653SS

146

2

107,400

273,000

1601

448

1554 - 2267

15K

2.0

GB (formatted, rounded off value)

Tracks (user accessible including spare tracks)

KTPI (average)

KBPI

Gb/in 2

Mb/s (variable with zone)

RPM ms

5.2

Seek performance characteristics

See Section 12.4.1, "SAS physical interface" on page 57 and the SAS Interface Manual (part number

100293071) for additional timing details.

5.2.1

Access time

Average Typical

3

,

4

Single track Typical 3,4

Full stroke Typical 3,4

Including controller overhead

1 , 2

(ms)

Read Write

2.9

0.4

5.3

3.3

0.6

5.7

Not including controller overhead 1, 2 (ms)

Read

2.7

0.2

5.1

Write

3.1

0.4

5.5

1.

Execution time measured from receipt of the Command to the Response.

2.

Assumes no errors and no sector has been relocated.

3.

Typical access times are measured under nominal conditions of temperature, voltage, and horizontal orientation as measured on a representative sample of drives.

4.

Access time = controller overhead + average seek time and applies to all data transfer commands.

Access to data = access time + latency time.

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5.2.2

Format command execution time

ST9300653SS

ST9300553SS

ST9300453SS

ST9146853SS

ST9146753SS

ST9146653SS

Maximum (with verify) 60 minutes 30 minutes

Maximum (without verify) 30 minutes 15 minutes

Execution time measured from receipt of the last byte of the Command Descriptor Block (CDB) to the request for a Status Byte Transfer to the Initiator (excluding connect/disconnect).

When changing sector sizes, the format times shown above may need to be increased by 30 minutes.

5.2.3

General performance characteristics

Sustained transfer rate

SAS Interface maximum instantaneous transfer rate

144 to 193 MiB/s **

151 to 202 MB/s

600 MB/s* per port

(dual port = 1,200 MB/s*)

Logical block sizes

512 (default), 520, 524 and 528

Read/write consecutive sectors on a track

Flaw reallocation performance impact (for flaws reallocated at format time using the spare sectors per sparing zone reallocation scheme.)

Average rotational latency

Yes

Negligible

2.0 ms

* Assumes no errors and no relocated logical blocks. Rate measured from the start of the first logical block transfer to or from the host.

** MiB/s x 1.048 = MB/s

5.3

Start/stop time

The drive accepts the commands listed in the SAS Interface Manual less than 3 seconds after DC power has been applied.

If the drive receives a NOTIFY (ENABLE SPINUP) primitive through either port and has not received a START

STOP UNIT command with the START bit equal to 0, the drive becomes ready for normal operations within 20 seconds (excluding the error recovery procedure).

If the drive receives a START STOP UNIT command with the START bit equal to 0 before receiving a NOTIFY

(ENABLE SPINUP) primitive, the drive waits for a START STOP UNIT command with the START bit equal to 1.

After receiving a START STOP UNIT command with the START bit equal to 1, the drive waits for a NOTIFY

(ENABLE SPINUP) primitive. After receiving a NOTIFY (ENABLE SPINUP) primitive through either port, the drive becomes ready for normal operations within 30 seconds (excluding the error recovery procedure).

If the drive receives a START STOP UNIT command with the START bit and IMMED bit equal to 1 and does not receive a NOTIFY (ENABLE SPINUP) primitive within 5 seconds, the drive fails the START STOP UNIT command.

The START STOP UNIT command may be used to command the drive to stop the spindle. Stop time is 20 seconds (maximum) from removal of DC power. SCSI stop time is 20 seconds. There is no power control switch on the drive.

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5.4

Prefetch/multi-segmented cache control

The drive provides a prefetch (read look-ahead) and multi-segmented cache control algorithms that in many cases can enhance system performance. Cache refers to the drive buffer storage space when it is used in cache operations. To select this feature, the host sends the Mode Select command with the proper values in the applicable bytes in page 08h. Prefetch and cache operations are independent features from the standpoint that each is enabled and disabled independently using the Mode Select command; however, in actual opera-

tion, the prefetch feature overlaps cache operation somewhat as described in sections 5.5.1 and 5.5.2.

All default cache and prefetch mode parameter values (Mode Page 08h) for standard OEM versions of this

drive family are given in Table 9.

5.5

Cache operation

Note.

Refer to the SAS Interface Manual for more detail concerning the cache bits.

Of the 64MB physical buffer space in the drive, approximately 30,000 KB are available as a data cache. The remaining buffer space is reserved for internal drive use.

The drive keeps track of the logical block addresses of the data stored in each segment of the buffer. If the cache is enabled (see RCD bit in the SAS Interface Manual ), data requested by the host with a read command is retrieved from the buffer, if possible, before any disk access is initiated. If cache operation is not enabled, the buffer is still used, but only as circular buffer segments during disk medium read operations (disregarding

Prefetch operation for the moment). That is, the drive does not check in the buffer segments for the requested read data, but goes directly to the medium to retrieve it. The retrieved data merely passes through some buffer segment on the way to the host. All data transfers to the host are in accordance with buffer-full ratio rules. See the explanation provided with the information about Mode Page 02h (disconnect/reconnect control) in the SAS

Interface Manual.

The following is a simplified description of the prefetch/cache operation:

Case A—read command is received and all of the requested logical blocks are already in the cache:

1.

Drive transfers the requested logical blocks to the initiator.

Case B—A Read command requests data, and at least one requested logical block is not in any segment of the cache:

1.

The drive fetches the requested logical blocks from the disk and transfers them into a segment, and then from there to the host in accordance with the Mode Select Disconnect/Reconnect parameters, page 02h.

2.

If the prefetch feature is enabled, refer to section 5.5.2 for operation from this point.

Each cache segment is actually a self-contained circular buffer whose length is an integer number of logical blocks. The drive dynamically creates and removes segments based on the workload. The wrap-around capability of the individual segments greatly enhances the cache’s overall performance.

Note.

The size of each segment is not reported by Mode Sense command page 08h, bytes 14 and 15.

The value 0XFFFF is always reported regardless of the actual size of the segment. Sending a size specification using the Mode Select command (bytes 14 and 15) does not set up a new segment size. If the STRICT bit in Mode page 00h (byte 2, bit 1) is set to one, the drive responds as it does for any attempt to change an unchangeable parameter.

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5.5.1

Caching write data

Write caching is a write operation by the drive that makes use of a drive buffer storage area where the data to be written to the medium is stored while the drive performs the Write command.

If read caching is enabled (RCD=0), then data written to the medium is retained in the cache to be made available for future read cache hits. The same buffer space and segmentation is used as set up for read functions.

The buffer segmentation scheme is set up or changed independently, having nothing to do with the state of

RCD. When a write command is issued, if RCD=0, the cache is first checked to see if any logical blocks that are to be written are already stored in the cache from a previous read or write command. If there are, the respective cache segments are cleared. The new data is cached for subsequent Read commands.

If the number of write data logical blocks exceed the size of the segment being written into, when the end of the segment is reached, the data is written into the beginning of the same cache segment, overwriting the data that was written there at the beginning of the operation; however, the drive does not overwrite data that has not yet been written to the medium.

If write caching is enabled (WCE=1), then the drive may return Good status on a write command after the data has been transferred into the cache, but before the data has been written to the medium. If an error occurs while writing the data to the medium, and Good status has already been returned, a deferred error will be generated.

The Synchronize Cache command may be used to force the drive to write all cached write data to the medium.

Upon completion of a Synchronize Cache command, all data received from previous write commands will have been written to the medium.

Table 9 shows the mode default settings for the drive.

5.5.2

Prefetch operation

If the Prefetch feature is enabled, data in contiguous logical blocks on the disk immediately beyond that which was requested by a Read command are retrieved and stored in the buffer for immediate transfer from the buffer to the host on subsequent Read commands that request those logical blocks (this is true even if cache operation is disabled). Though the prefetch operation uses the buffer as a cache, finding the requested data in the buffer is a prefetch hit, not a cache operation hit.

To enable prefetch, use Mode Select page 08h, byte 12, bit 5 (Disable Read Ahead - DRA bit). DRA bit = 0 enables prefetch.

The drive does not use the Max Prefetch field (bytes 8 and 9) or the Prefetch Ceiling field (bytes 10 and 11).

When prefetch (read look-ahead) is enabled (enabled by DRA = 0), the drive enables prefetch of contiguous blocks from the disk when it senses that a prefetch hit will likely occur. The drive disables prefetch when it decides that a prefetch hit is not likely to occur.

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6.0

Reliability specifications

The following reliability specifications assume correct host and drive operational interface, including all interface timings, power supply voltages, environmental requirements and drive mounting constraints.

Seek error rate:

Read Error Rates

1

Recovered Data

Unrecovered Data

Miscorrected Data

Interface error rate:

Less than 10 errors in 10 8 seeks

Less than 1 error in 10 12 bits transferred (OEM default settings)

Less than 1 sector in 10 16 bits transferred

Less than 1 sector in 10 21 bits transferred

Less than 1 error in 10 12 bits transferred

Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF): 2,000,000 hours

Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.44%

Preventive maintenance: None required

1. Error rate specified with automatic retries and data correction with ECC enabled and all flaws reallocated.

6.1

Error rates

The error rates stated in this manual assume the following:

• The drive is operated in accordance with this manual using DC power as defined in paragraph 7.3, "DC power requirements."

• Errors caused by host system failures are excluded from error rate computations.

• Assume random data.

• Default OEM error recovery settings are applied. This includes AWRE, ARRE, full read retries, full write retries and full retry time.

6.1.1

Recoverable Errors

Recoverable errors are those detected and corrected by the drive, and do not require user intervention.

Recoverable Data errors will use Error Correction when needed.

Recovered Data error rate is determined using read bits transferred for recoverable errors occurring during a read, and using write bits transferred for recoverable errors occurring during a write.

6.1.2

Unrecoverable Errors

An unrecoverable data error is defined as a failure of the drive to recover data from the media. These errors occur due to head/media or write problems. Unrecoverable data errors are only detected during read operations, but not caused by the read. If an unrecoverable data error is detected, a MEDIUM ERROR (03h) in the

Sense Key will be reported. Multiple unrecoverable data errors resulting from the same cause are treated as 1 error.

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6.1.3

Seek errors

A seek error is defined as a failure of the drive to position the heads to the addressed track. After detecting an initial seek error, the drive automatically performs an error recovery process. If the error recovery process fails, a seek positioning error (Error code = 15h or 02h) will be reported with a Hardware error (04h) in the Sense

Key. Recoverable seek errors are specified at Less than 10 errors in 10

8

seeks. Unrecoverable seek errors

(Sense Key = 04h) are classified as drive failures.

6.1.4

Interface errors

An interface error is defined as a failure of the receiver on a port to recover the data as transmitted by the device port connected to the receiver. The error may be detected as a running disparity error, illegal code, loss of word sync, or CRC error.

6.2

Reliability and service

You can enhance the reliability of Savvio disk drives by ensuring that the drive receives adequate cooling. Section 7.0 provides temperature measurements and other information that may be used to enhance the service

life of the drive. Section 11.2 provides recommended air-flow information.

6.2.1

Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)

The production disk drive shall achieve an AFR of 0.44% (MTBF of 2,000,000 hours) when operated in an

environment that ensures the HDA case temperatures do not exceed the values specified in Section 7.5. Operation at case temperatures outside the specifications in Section 7.5 may increase the product AFR (decrease

the MTBF). The AFR (MTBF) is a population statistic not relevant to individual units.

The AFR (MTBF) specification is based on the following assumptions:

• 8760 power-on hours per year.

• 250 average on/off cycles per year.

• Operations at nominal voltages.

• Systems will provide adequate cooling to ensure the case temperatures specified in Section 7.5 are not exceeded. Temperatures outside the specifications in Section 7.5 will increase the product AFR and

decrease the MTBF.

6.2.2

Preventive maintenance

No routine scheduled preventive maintenance is required.

6.2.3

Hot plugging the drive

When a disk is powered on by switching the power or hot plugged, the drive runs a self test before attempting to communicate on its’ interfaces. When the self test completes successfully, the drive initiates a Link Reset starting with OOB. An attached device should respond to the link reset. If the link reset attempt fails, or any time the drive looses sync, the drive initiated link reset. The drive will initiate link reset once per second but alternates between port A and B. Therefore each port will attempt a link reset once per 2 seconds assuming both ports are out of sync.

If the self-test fails, the drive does not respond to link reset on the failing port.

Note.

It is the responsibility of the systems integrator to assure that no temperature, energy, voltage hazard, or ESD potential hazard is presented during the hot connect/disconnect operation. Discharge the static electricity from the drive carrier prior to inserting it into the system.

Caution.

The drive motor must come to a complete stop prior to changing the plane of operation. This time is required to insure data integrity.

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6.2.4

S.M.A.R.T.

S.M.A.R.T. is an acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. This technology is intended to recognize conditions that indicate imminent drive failure and is designed to provide sufficient warning of a failure to allow you to back up the data before an actual failure occurs.

Note.

The drive’s firmware monitors specific attributes for degradation over time but can’t predict instantaneous drive failures.

Each monitored attribute has been selected to monitor a specific set of failure conditions in the operating performance of the drive and the thresholds are optimized to minimize “false” and “failed” predictions.

Controlling S.M.A.R.T.

The operating mode of S.M.A.R.T. is controlled by the DEXCPT and PERF bits on the Informational Exceptions

Control mode page (1Ch). Use the DEXCPT bit to enable or disable the S.M.A.R.T. feature. Setting the DEX-

CPT bit disables all S.M.A.R.T. functions. When enabled, S.M.A.R.T. collects on-line data as the drive performs normal read and write operations. When the PERF bit is set, the drive is considered to be in “On-line Mode

Only” and will not perform off-line functions.

You can measure off-line attributes and force the drive to save the data by using the Rezero Unit command.

Forcing S.M.A.R.T. resets the timer so that the next scheduled interrupt is in one hour.

You can interrogate the drive through the host to determine the time remaining before the next scheduled measurement and data logging process occurs. To accomplish this, issue a Log Sense command to log page 0x3E.

This allows you to control when S.M.A.R.T. interruptions occur. Forcing S.M.A.R.T. with the RTZ command resets the timer.

Performance impact

S.M.A.R.T. attribute data is saved to the disk so that the events that caused a predictive failure can be recreated. The drive measures and saves parameters once every hour subject to an idle period on the drive interfaces. The process of measuring off-line attribute data and saving data to the disk is uninterruptable. The maximum on-line only processing delay is summarized below:

Maximum processing delay

Fully-enabled delay

DEXCPT = 0

S.M.A.R.T. delay times 70 milliseconds

Reporting control

Reporting is controlled by the MRIE bits in the Informational Exceptions Control mode page (1Ch). Subject to the reporting method. For example, if the MRIE is set to one, the firmware will issue to the host an 01-5D00 sense code. The FRU field contains the type of predictive failure that occurred. The error code is preserved through bus resets and power cycles.

Determining rate

S.M.A.R.T. monitors the rate at which errors occur and signals a predictive failure if the rate of degraded errors increases to an unacceptable level. To determine rate, error events are logged and compared to the number of total operations for a given attribute. The interval defines the number of operations over which to measure the rate. The counter that keeps track of the current number of operations is referred to as the Interval Counter.

S.M.A.R.T. measures error rates. All errors for each monitored attribute are recorded. A counter keeps track of the number of errors for the current interval. This counter is referred to as the Failure Counter.

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Error rate is the number of errors per operation. The algorithm that S.M.A.R.T. uses to record rates of error is to set thresholds for the number of errors and their interval. If the number of errors exceeds the threshold before the interval expires, the error rate is considered to be unacceptable. If the number of errors does not exceed the threshold before the interval expires, the error rate is considered to be acceptable. In either case, the interval and failure counters are reset and the process starts over.

Predictive failures

S.M.A.R.T. signals predictive failures when the drive is performing unacceptably for a period of time. The firmware keeps a running count of the number of times the error rate for each attribute is unacceptable. To accomplish this, a counter is incremented each time the error rate is unacceptable and decremented (not to exceed zero) whenever the error rate is acceptable. If the counter continually increments such that it reaches the predictive threshold, a predictive failure is signaled. This counter is referred to as the Failure History Counter.

There is a separate Failure History Counter for each attribute.

6.2.5

Thermal monitor

Savvio drives implement a temperature warning system which:

1.

Signals the host if the temperature exceeds a value which would threaten the drive.

2.

Signals the host if the temperature exceeds a user-specified value.

3.

Saves a S.M.A.R.T. data frame on the drive which exceeds the threatening temperature value.

A temperature sensor monitors the drive temperature and issues a warning over the interface when the temperature exceeds a set threshold. The temperature is measured at power-up and then at ten-minute intervals after power-up.

The thermal monitor system generates a warning code of 01-0B01 when the temperature exceeds the specified limit in compliance with the SCSI standard. The drive temperature is reported in the FRU code field of mode sense data. You can use this information to determine if the warning is due to the temperature exceeding the drive threatening temperature or the user-specified temperature.

This feature is controlled by the Enable Warning (EWasc) bit, and the reporting mechanism is controlled by the

Method of Reporting Informational Exceptions field (MRIE) on the Informational Exceptions Control (IEC) mode page (1Ch).

The current algorithm implements two temperature trip points. The first trip point is set at 68°C which is the maximum temperature limit according to the drive specification. The second trip point is user-selectable using

the Log Select command. The reference temperature parameter in the temperature log page (see Table 1) can

be used to set this trip point. The default value for this drive is 68°C, however, you can set it to any value in the range of 0 to 68°C. If you specify a temperature greater than 68°C in this field, the temperature is rounded down to 68°C. A sense code is sent to the host to indicate the rounding of the parameter field.

Table 1: Temperature Log Page (0Dh)

Parameter Code

0000h

0001h

Description

Primary Temperature

Reference Temperature

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6.2.6

Drive Self Test (DST)

Drive Self Test (DST) is a technology designed to recognize drive fault conditions that qualify the drive as a failed unit. DST validates the functionality of the drive at a system level.

There are two test coverage options implemented in DST:

1.

Extended test

2.

Short test

The most thorough option is the extended test that performs various tests on the drive and scans every logical block address (LBA) of the drive. The short test is time-restricted and limited in length—it does not scan the entire media surface, but does some fundamental tests and scans portions of the media.

If DST encounters an error during either of these tests, it reports a fault condition. If the drive fails the test, remove it from service and return it to Seagate for service.

6.2.6.1

DST failure definition

The drive will present a “diagnostic failed” condition through the self-tests results value of the diagnostic log page if a functional failure is encountered during DST. The channel and servo parameters are not modified to test the drive more stringently, and the number of retries are not reduced. All retries and recovery processes are enabled during the test. If data is recoverable, no failure condition will be reported regardless of the number of retries required to recover the data.

The following conditions are considered DST failure conditions:

• Seek error after retries are exhausted

• Track-follow error after retries are exhausted

• Read error after retries are exhausted

• Write error after retries are exhausted

Recovered errors will not be reported as diagnostic failures.

6.2.6.2

Implementation

This section provides all of the information necessary to implement the DST function on this drive.

6.2.6.2.1

State of the drive prior to testing

The drive must be in a ready state before issuing the Send Diagnostic command. There are multiple reasons why a drive may not be ready, some of which are valid conditions, and not errors. For example, a drive may be in process of doing a format, or another DST. It is the responsibility of the host application to determine the “not ready” cause.

While not technically part of DST, a Not Ready condition also qualifies the drive to be returned to Seagate as a failed drive.

A Drive Not Ready condition is reported by the drive under the following conditions:

• Motor will not spin

• Motor will not lock to speed

• Servo will not lock on track

• Drive cannot read configuration tables from the disk

In these conditions, the drive responds to a Test Unit Ready command with an 02/04/00 or 02/04/03 code.

6.2.6.2.2

Invoking DST

To invoke DST, submit the Send Diagnostic command with the appropriate Function Code (001b for the short test or 010b for the extended test) in bytes 1, bits 5, 6, and 7.

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6.2.6.2.3

Short and extended tests

DST has two testing options:

1.

short

2.

extended

These testing options are described in the following two subsections.

Each test consists of three segments: an electrical test segment, a servo test segment, and a read/verify scan segment.

Short test (Function Code: 001b)

The purpose of the short test is to provide a time-limited test that tests as much of the drive as possible within

120 seconds. The short test does not scan the entire media surface, but does some fundamental tests and scans portions of the media. A complete read/verify scan is not performed and only factual failures will report a fault condition. This option provides a quick confidence test of the drive.

Extended test (Function Code: 010b)

The objective of the extended test option is to empirically test critical drive components. For example, the seek tests and on-track operations test the positioning mechanism. The read operation tests the read head element and the media surface. The write element is tested through read/write/read operations. The integrity of the media is checked through a read/verify scan of the media. Motor functionality is tested by default as a part of these tests.

The anticipated length of the Extended test is reported through the Control Mode page.

6.2.6.2.4

Log page entries

When the drive begins DST, it creates a new entry in the Self-test Results Log page. The new entry is created by inserting a new self-test parameter block at the beginning of the self-test results log parameter section of the log page. Existing data will be moved to make room for the new parameter block. The drive reports 20 parameter blocks in the log page. If there are more than 20 parameter blocks, the least recent parameter block will be deleted. The new parameter block will be initialized as follows:

1. The Function Code field is set to the same value as sent in the DST command

2. The Self-Test Results Value field is set to Fh

3. The drive will store the log page to non-volatile memory

After a self-test is complete or has been aborted, the drive updates the Self-Test Results Value field in its Self-

Test Results Log page in non-volatile memory. The host may use Log Sense to read the results from up to the last 20 self-tests performed by the drive. The self-test results value is a 4-bit field that reports the results of the test. If the field is set to zero, the drive passed with no errors detected by the DST. If the field is not set to zero, the test failed for the reason reported in the field.

The drive will report the failure condition and LBA (if applicable) in the Self-test Results Log parameter. The

Sense key, ASC, ASCQ, and FRU are used to report the failure condition.

6.2.6.2.5

Abort

There are several ways to abort a diagnostic. You can use a SCSI Bus Reset or a Bus Device Reset message to abort the diagnostic.

You can abort a DST executing in background mode by using the abort code in the DST Function Code field.

This will cause a 01 (self-test aborted by the application client) code to appear in the self-test results values log. All other abort mechanisms will be reported as a 02 (self-test routine was interrupted by a reset condition).

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6.2.7

Product warranty

See Section 1.0 for warranty contact information.

Shipping

When transporting or shipping a drive, use only a Seagate-approved container. Keep your original box. Seagate approved containers are easily identified by the Seagate Approved Package label. Shipping a drive in a non-approved container voids the drive warranty.

Seagate repair centers may refuse receipt of components improperly packaged or obviously damaged in transit. Contact your authorized Seagate distributor to purchase additional boxes. Seagate recommends shipping by an air-ride carrier experienced in handling computer equipment.

Product repair and return information

Seagate customer service centers are the only facilities authorized to service Seagate drives. Seagate does not sanction any third-party repair facilities. Any unauthorized repair or tampering with the factory seal voids the warranty.

Storage

The maximum recommended storage period for the drive in a non-operational environment is 90 days. Drives should be stored in the original unopened Seagate shipping packaging when ever possible. Once the drive is removed from the Seagate original packaging the recommended maximum period between drive operation cycles is 30 days. During any storage period the drive non-operational temperature, humidity, wet bulb, atmospheric conditions, shock, vibration, magnetic and electrical field specifications should be followed.

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7.0

Physical/electrical specifications

This section provides information relating to the physical and electrical characteristics of the drive.

7.1

PowerChoice

TM

power management

Drives using the CSS architecture have limited power management capability.

The table below lists the supported PowerChoice modes. The further you go down in the table, the more power savings you get.

PowerChoice modes

Mode Description

Idle_A Reduced electronics

Idle_B

Idle_C

N/A

N/A

Standby_Y

Standby_Z

N/A

Motor stopped (disks not spinning)

PowerChoice can be invoked using only the Start Stop Unit command for drives using the CSS architecture:

• START STOP UNIT command method—Use the START STOP UNIT command (OPERATION CODE 1Bh).

This allows the host to directly transition the drive to any supported PowerChoice mode.

The REQUEST SENSE command reports the current PowerChoice state if active and also the method by which the drive entered the PowerChoice state.

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7.1.1

PowerChoice reporting methods

PowerChoice TM provides these reporting methods for tracking purposes:

Request Sense command reports

• Current power condition

• Method of entry

Note.

Processing the Request Sense command does not impact the drive’s power save state.

Mode Sense command reports (mode page 0x1A)

• Idle conditions enabled / disabled

• Idle condition timer values (100ms increments) (default, saved, current, changeable)

Power Condition Vital Product Data (VPD) Page (VPD page 0x8A)

• Supported power conditions

• Typical recovery time from power conditions (1ms increments)

Start/Stop Cycle Counter Log Page reports (log page 0x0E)

• Specified and accumulated Start/Stops and Load/Unload cycles

Power Condition Transitions Log Page reports (log page 0x1A, subpage 0x00)

• Accumulated transitions to Active, Idle_A, Idle_B, Idle_C, Standby_Y, Standby_Z

7.2

None.

AC power requirements

7.3

DC power requirements

The voltage and current requirements for a single drive are shown below. Values indicated apply at the drive connector.

The standard drive models and the SED drive models have identical hardware, however the security and encryption portion of the drive controller ASIC is enabled and functional in the SED models. This represents a small additional drain on the 5V supply of about 30mA and a commensurate increase of about 150mW in power consumption. There is no additional drain on the 12V supply.

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Table 2: 300GB models DC power requirements

Parameter

Voltage

Regulation

Avg idle current DC

Standby

Maximum starting current

(peak DC) DC

(peak AC) AC

Delayed motor start (max) DC

Peak operating current: (random read)

Typical DC

Maximum DC

Maximum (peak) DC

Peak operating current: (random write)

Typical DC

Maximum DC

Maximum (peak) DC

Peak operating current: (sequential read)

Typical DC

Maximum DC

Maximum (peak) DC

Peak operating current: (sequential write)

Typical DC

Maximum DC

Maximum (peak) DC

3 σ

3 σ [3]

3 σ [3]

3 σ [1] [4]

[1] [6]

3 σ [1]

3 σ

[1]

3 σ [1]

3 σ

[1]

3 σ [1]

3 σ

[1]

3 σ [1]

3 σ

Notes

[5]

[1] [7]

3.0 Gb mode

(Amps) (Amps)

+5V

±5%

+12V [2]

±5% [2]

0.36

0.31

0.20

0.06

0.63

0.91

0.50

0.51

0.57

1.49

0.60

0.67

1.26

0.87

0.93

1.21

1.00

1.08

1.32

1.04

1.93

0.06

0.46

0.48

1.32

0.37

0.40

1.33

0.23

0.25

0.50

0.23

0.25

0.41

6.0 Gb mode

(Amps) (Amps)

+5V

±5%

+12V [2]

±5% [2]

0.37

0.31

0.20

0.05

0.64

0.83

0.51

0.50

0.57

1.43

0.59

0.66

1.23

0.86

0.92

1.31

1.00

1.07

1.36

1.04

1.96

0.06

0.45

0.47

1.36

0.36

0.39

1.34

0.22

0.24

0.48

0.22

0.24

0.42

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Table 3: 146GB models DC power requirements

Parameter

Voltage

Regulation

Notes

3.0 Gb mode

(Amps) (Amps)

+5V

±5%

+12V [2]

±5% [2]

6.0 Gb mode

(Amps) (Amps)

+5V

±5%

+12V [2]

±5% [2] [5]

Avg idle current DC [1] [7] 0.36

0.17

0.36

0.17

Standby 3 σ 0.28

0.05

0.27

0.04

Maximum starting current

(peak DC) DC

(peak AC) AC

Delayed motor start (max) DC

3 σ [3]

3 σ [3]

3 σ [1] [4]

0.67

0.91

0.56

0.86

1.74

0.06

0.67

1.01

0.56

0.86

1.60

0.06

Peak operating current: (random read)

Typical DC

Maximum DC

Maximum (peak) DC

[1] [6]

3 σ [1]

3 σ

0.50

0.52

1.37

0.41

0.42

1.25

0.48

0.50

1.29

0.42

0.43

1.24

Peak operating current: (random write)

Typical DC

Maximum DC

Maximum (peak) DC

[1]

3 σ [1]

3 σ

0.59

0.61

1.20

0.32

0.34

1.27

0.57

0.58

1.12

0.33

0.34

1.25

Peak operating current: (sequential read)

Typical DC

Maximum DC

Maximum (peak) DC

[1]

3 σ [1]

3 σ

0.87

0.93

1.22

0.18

0.18

0.43

0.84

0.90

1.21

0.19

0.19

0.41

Peak operating current: (sequential write)

Typical DC [1] 1.00

0.18

0.98

0.19

Maximum DC

Maximum (peak) DC

3 σ [1]

3 σ

1.06

1.32

0.18

0.36

1.03

1.34

0.19

0.36

[1] Measured with average reading DC ammeter. Instantaneous +12V current peaks will exceed these values. Power supply at nominal voltage. N (number of drives tested) = 6, 35 Degrees C ambient.

[2] For +12 V, a –10% tolerance is allowed during initial spindle start but must return to ±5% before reaching

15K RPM. The ±5% must be maintained after the drive signifies that its power-up sequence has been completed and that the drive is able to accept selection by the host initiator.

[3]

See +12V current profile in Figure 1.

[4] This condition occurs after OOB and Speed Negotiation completes but before the drive has received the

Notify Spinup primitive.

[5]

See paragraph 7.3.1, "Conducted noise immunity." Specified voltage tolerance includes ripple, noise, and

transient response.

[6] Operating condition is defined as random 8 block reads.

[7] During idle, the drive heads are relocated every 60 seconds to a random location within the band from three-quarters to maximum track.

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General DC power requirement notes.

1.

Minimum current loading for each supply voltage is not less than 1.7% of the maximum operating current shown.

2.

The +5V and +12V supplies should employ separate ground returns.

3.

Where power is provided to multiple drives from a common supply, careful consideration for individual drive power requirements should be noted. Where multiple units are powered on simultaneously, the peak starting current must be available to each device.

4.

Parameters, other than spindle start, are measured after a 10-minute warm up.

5.

No terminator power.

7.3.1

Conducted noise immunity

Noise is specified as a periodic and random distribution of frequencies covering a defined frequency. Maximum allowed noise values given below are peak-to-peak measurements and apply at the drive power connector.

+5V

+12V

= 250 mV pp from 100 Hz to 20 MHz.

= 450 mV pp from 100 Hz to 100 KHz.

250 mV pp from 100 KHz to 20 MHz.

150 mV pp from 20 MHz to 80 MHz.

7.3.2

Power sequencing

The drive does not require power sequencing. The drive protects against inadvertent writing during power-up and down.

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7.3.3

Current profiles

The +12V and +5V current profiles for the Savvio 15K.3 SAS drives are shown below.

Figure 1. Current profile for 300GB models.

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Figure 2. Current profile for 146GB models

Note: All times and currents are typical. See Tables 2 and 3 for maximum current requirements.

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7.4

Power dissipation

300GB models in 6Gb operation

Typical power dissipation under idle conditions in 6Gb operation is 4.23 watts (14.43 BTUs per hour).

To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure

3). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in your system on the horizontal axis and read the corresponding +5

volt current, +12 volt current, and total watts on the vertical axis. To calculate BTUs per hour, multiply watts by

3.4123.

Figure 3. 300GB models (6Gb) DC current and power vs. input/output operations per second

300GB models in 3Gb operation

Typical power dissipation under idle conditions in 3Gb operation is 4.20 watts (14.33 BTUs per hour).

To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure

3). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in your system on the horizontal axis and read the corresponding +5

volt current, +12 volt current, and total watts on the vertical axis. To calculate BTUs per hour, multiply watts by

3.4123.

Figure 4. 300GB models (3Gb) DC current and power vs. input/output operations per second

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146GB models in 6Gb operation

Typical power dissipation under idle conditions in 6Gb operation is 3.86 watts (13.17 BTUs per hour).

To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure

3). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in your system on the horizontal axis and read the corresponding +5

volt current, +12 volt current, and total watts on the vertical axis. To calculate BTUs per hour, multiply watts by

3.4123.

Figure 5. 146GB models (6Gb) DC current and power vs. input/output operations per second

146GB models in 3Gb operation

Typical power dissipation under idle conditions in 3Gb operation is 3.83 watts (13.07 BTUs per hour).

To obtain operating power for typical random read operations, refer to the following I/O rate curve (see Figure

3). Locate the typical I/O rate for a drive in your system on the horizontal axis and read the corresponding +5

volt current, +12 volt current, and total watts on the vertical axis. To calculate BTUs per hour, multiply watts by

3.4123.

Figure 6. 146GB models (3Gb) DC current and power vs. input/output operations per second

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7.5

Environmental limits

Temperature and humidity values experienced by the drive must be such that condensation does not occur on any drive part. Altitude and atmospheric pressure specifications are referenced to a standard day at 58.7°F

(14.8°C). Maximum wet bulb temperature is 82°F (28°C).

Note.

To maintain optimal performance drives should be run at nominal case temperatures.

7.5.1

Temperature a. Operating

The drive meets the operating specifications over a 41°F to 131°F (5°C to 55°C) drive case temperature range with a maximum temperature gradient of 36°F (20°C) per hour.

The maximum allowable drive case temperature is 60°C.

The MTBF specification for the drive assumes the operating environment is designed to maintain nominal case temperature. The rated MTBF is based upon a sustained case temperature of 122°F (50°C). Occasional excursions in operating temperature between the rated MTBF temperature and the maximum drive operating case temperature may occur without impact to the rated MTBF temperature. However continual or sustained operation at case temperatures beyond the rated MTBF temperature will degrade the drive

MTBF and reduce product reliability.

Air flow may be required to achieve consistent nominal case temperature values (see Section 9.2). To confirm that the required cooling is provided for the electronics and HDA, place the drive in its final mechanical configuration, and perform random write/read operations. After the temperatures stabilize, measure the

case temperature of the drive. See Figure 7 for HDA temperature checkpoint.

b. Non-operating

–40° to 158°F (–40° to 70°C) package ambient with a maximum gradient of 36°F (20°C) per hour. This specification assumes that the drive is packaged in the shipping container designed by Seagate for use with drive.

HDA Temp.

Check Point

Figure 7. Location of the HDA temperature check point

Note.

Image is for reference only, may not represent actual drive

7.5.2

Relative humidity

The values below assume that no condensation on the drive occurs.

a. Operating

5% to 95% non-condensing relative humidity with a maximum gradient of 20% per hour.

b. Non-operating

5% to 95% non-condensing relative humidity.

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7.5.3

Effective altitude (sea level) a. Operating

–1000 to +10,000 ft (–304.8 to +3048 m) b. Non-operating

–1000 to +40,000 ft (–304.8 to +12,192 m)

7.5.4

Shock and vibration

Shock and vibration limits specified in this document are measured directly on the drive chassis. If the drive is installed in an enclosure to which the stated shock and/or vibration criteria is applied, resonances may occur internally to the enclosure resulting in drive movement in excess of the stated limits. If this situation is apparent, it may be necessary to modify the enclosure to minimize drive movement.

The limits of shock and vibration defined within this document are specified with the drive mounted by any of

the four methods shown in Figure 8, and in accordance with the restrictions of Section 11.3.

7.5.4.1

Shock a. Operating—normal

The drive, as installed for normal operation, shall operate error free while subjected to intermittent shock not exceeding 15 Gs at a maximum duration of 11 ms (half sinewave). The drive, as installed for normal operation, shall operate error free while subjected to intermittent shock not exceeding 40 Gs at a maximum duration of 2 ms (half sinewave). Shock may be applied in the X, Y, or Z axis.

b. Operating—abnormal

Equipment, as installed for normal operation, does not incur physical damage while subjected to intermittent shock not exceeding 40 Gs at a maximum duration of 11 ms (half sinewave). Shock occurring at abnormal levels may promote degraded operational performance during the abnormal shock period. Specified operational performance will continue when normal operating shock levels resume. Shock may be applied in the X, Y, or Z axis. Shock is not to be repeated more than two times per second.

c. Non-operating

The limits of non-operating shock shall apply to all conditions of handling and transportation. This includes both isolated drives and integrated drives.

The drive subjected to nonrepetitive shock not exceeding 80 Gs at a maximum duration of 11 ms (half sinewave) shall not exhibit device damage or performance degradation. Shock may be applied in the X, Y, or Z axis.

The drive subjected to nonrepetitive shock not exceeding 300 Gs at a maximum duration of 2 ms (half sinewave) does not exhibit device damage or performance degradation. Shock may be applied in the X, Y, or Z axis.

The drive subjected to nonrepetitive shock not exceeding 150 Gs at a maximum duration of 0.5 ms (half sinewave) does not exhibit device damage or performance degradation. Shock may be applied in the X, Y, or Z axis.

d. Packaged

Seagate finished drive bulk packs are designed and tested to meet or exceed applicable ISTA and ASTM standards. Volume finished drives will be shipped from Seagate factories on pallets to minimize freight costs and ease material handling. Seagate finished drive bulk packs may be shipped individually. For less than full shipments, instructions are printed on the bulk pack carton for minimum drive quantities and proper drive placement

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Z

Y

X

Z

X

Y

Figure 8. Recommended mounting

Note.

Image is for reference only, may not represent actual drive.

7.5.4.2

Vibration a. Operating—normal

The drive as installed for normal operation, shall comply with the complete specified performance while subjected to continuous vibration not exceeding

5 - 500 Hz, swept sine: 0.5 G (zero to peak)

10 - 500 Hz, random: 0.00051 G 2 /Hz

Vibration may be applied in the X, Y, or Z axis.

b. Operating—abnormal

Equipment as installed for normal operation shall not incur physical damage while subjected to periodic vibration not exceeding:

15 minutes of duration at major resonant frequency

5 - 500 Hz, swept sine: 0.75 G (zero to peak)

10 - 500 Hz, random: 0.00029 G 2 /Hz

Vibration occurring at these levels may degrade operational performance during the abnormal vibration period. Specified operational performance will continue when normal operating vibration levels are resumed. This assumes system recovery routines are available.

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c. Non-operating

The limits of non-operating vibration shall apply to all conditions of handling and transportation. This includes both isolated drives and integrated drives.

The drive shall not incur physical damage or degraded performance as a result of continuous vibration not exceeding:

5 - 22 Hz, swept sine: 0.25 G, (zero to peak)

22 - 350 Hz, swept sine: 5.0 G (zero to peak)

350 - 500 Hz, swept sine: 1.0 G (zero to peak)

10 - 500 Hz, random: 0.0118 G 2 /Hz

Vibration may be applied in the X, Y, or Z axis.

7.5.5

Air cleanliness

The drive is designed to operate in a typical office environment with minimal environmental control.

7.5.6

Corrosive environment

Seagate electronic drive components pass accelerated corrosion testing equivalent to 10 years exposure to light industrial environments containing sulfurous gases, chlorine and nitric oxide, classes G and H per ASTM

B845. However, this accelerated testing cannot duplicate every potential application environment.

Users should use caution exposing any electronic components to uncontrolled chemical pollutants and corrosive chemicals as electronic drive component reliability can be affected by the installation environment. The silver, copper, nickel and gold films used in Seagate products are especially sensitive to the presence of sulfide, chloride, and nitrate contaminants. Sulfur is found to be the most damaging. In addition, electronic components should never be exposed to condensing water on the surface of the printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) or exposed to an ambient relative humidity greater than 95%. Materials used in cabinet fabrication, such as vulcanized rubber, that can outgas corrosive compounds should be minimized or eliminated. The useful life of any electronic equipment may be extended by replacing materials near circuitry with sulfide-free alternatives.

7.5.7

Acoustics

Sound power during idle mode shall be 3.25 bels typical when measured to ISO 7779 specification.

Sound power during operating mode shall be 3.35 bels typical when measured to ISO 7779 specification.

There will not be any discrete tones more than 10 dB above the masking noise on typical drives when measured according to Seagate specification 30553-001. There will not be any tones more than 24 dB above the masking noise on any drive.

7.5.8

Electromagnetic susceptibility

See Section 3.1.1.1.

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7.6

Mechanical specifications

Refer to Figure 9 for detailed mounting configuration dimensions. See Section 11.3, “Drive mounting.”

Weight: 300GB models: 0.441 lb

146GB models: 0.426 lb

0.200 Kg

0.193 Kg

Note.

These dimensions conform to the Small Form Factor Standard documented in SFF-8201 and

SFF-8223, found at www.sffcommittee.org. in mm in mm

Figure 9. Dimensions

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8.0

About FIPS

The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2, FIPS PUB 140-2, is a U.S. government computer security standard used to accredit cryptographic modules. It is titled “Security Requirements for

Cryptographic Modules”. The initial publication was on May 25, 2001 and was last updated December 3, 2002.

Purpose

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued the FIPS 140 Publication Series to coordinate the requirements and standards for cryptography modules that include both hardware and software components.

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Level 2 Certification requires drives to go through government agencies certifications to add requirements for physical tamper-evidence and role-based authentication.

Level 2 security

Level 2 improves upon the physical security mechanisms of a Level 1 (lowest level of security) cryptographic module by requiring features that show evidence of tampering, including tamper-evident coatings or seals that must be broken to attain physical access to the plaintext cryptographic keys and critical security parameters

(CSPs) within the module, or pick-resistant locks on covers or doors to protect against unauthorized physical access.

Figure 10. Example of FIPS tamper evidence labels.

Note.

Does not represent actual drive.

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9.0

About self-encrypting drives

Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) offer encryption and security services for the protection of stored data, commonly known as “protection of data at rest.” These drives are compliant with the Trusted Computing Group

(TCG) Enterprise Storage Specifications as detailed in Section 3.2.

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is an organization sponsored and operated by companies in the computer, storage and digital communications industry. Seagate’s SED models comply with the standards published by the TCG.

To use the security features in the drive, the host must be capable of constructing and issuing the following two

SCSI commands:

• Security Protocol Out

• Security Protocol In

These commands are used to convey the TCG protocol to and from the drive in their command payloads.

9.1

Data encryption

Encrypting drives use one inline encryption engine for each port, employing AES-128 data encryption in Cipher

Block Chaining (CBC) mode to encrypt all data prior to being written on the media and to decrypt all data as it is read from the media. The encryption engines are always in operation, cannot be disabled, and do not detract in any way from the performance of the drive.

The 32-byte Data Encryption Key (DEK) is a random number which is generated by the drive, never leaves the drive, and is inaccessible to the host system. The DEK is itself encrypted when it is stored on the media and when it is in volatile temporary storage (DRAM) external to the encryption engine. A unique data encryption

key is used for each of the drive's possible16 data bands (see Section 9.5).

9.2

Controlled access

The drive has two security partitions (SPs) called the "Admin SP" and the "Locking SP." These act as gatekeepers to the drive security services. Security-related commands will not be accepted unless they also supply the correct credentials to prove the requester is authorized to perform the command.

9.2.1

Admin SP

The Admin SP allows the drive's owner to enable or disable firmware download operations (see Section 9.4).

Access to the Admin SP is available using the SID (Secure ID) password or the MSID (Makers Secure ID) password.

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9.2.2

Locking SP

The Locking SP controls read/write access to the media and the cryptographic erase feature. Access to the

Locking SP is available using the BandMasterX or EraseMaster passwords. Since the drive owner can define up to 16 data bands on the drive, each data band has its own password called BandMasterX where X is the number of the data band (0 through 15).

9.2.3

Default password

When the drive is shipped from the factory, all passwords are set to the value of MSID. This 32-byte random value is printed on the drive label and it can be read by the host electronically over the I/O. After receipt of the drive, it is the responsibility of the owner to use the default MSID password as the authority to change all other passwords to unique owner-specified values.

9.3

Random number generator (RNG)

The drive has a 32-byte hardware RNG that it is uses to derive encryption keys or, if requested to do so, to provide random numbers to the host for system use, including using these numbers as Authentication Keys (passwords) for the drive’s Admin and Locking SPs.

9.4

Drive locking

In addition to changing the passwords, as described in Section 9.2.3, the owner should also set the data

access controls for the individual bands.

The variable "LockOnReset" should be set to "PowerCycle" to ensure that the data bands will be locked if power is lost. This scenario occurs if the drive is removed from its cabinet. The drive will not honor any data read or write requests until the bands have been unlocked. This prevents the user data from being accessed without the appropriate credentials when the drive has been removed from its cabinet and installed in another system.

When the drive is shipped from the factory, the firmware download port is unlocked.

9.5

Data bands

When shipped from the factory, the drive is configured with a single data band called Band 0 (also known as the Global Data Band) which comprises LBA 0 through LBA max. The host may allocate Band1 by specifying a start LBA and an LBA range. The real estate for this band is taken from the Global Band. An additional 14 Data

Bands may be defined in a similar way (Band2 through Band15) but before these bands can be allocated LBA space, they must first be individually enabled using the EraseMaster password.

Data bands cannot overlap but they can be sequential with one band ending at LBA (x) and the next beginning at LBA (x+1).

Each data band has its own drive-generated encryption key and its own user-supplied password. The host may

change the Encryption Key (see Section 9.6) or the password when required. The bands should be aligned to

4K LBA boundaries.

9.6

Cryptographic erase

A significant feature of SEDs is the ability to perform a cryptographic erase. This involves the host telling the drive to change the data encryption key for a particular band. Once changed, the data is no longer recoverable since it was written with one key and will be read using a different key. Since the drive overwrites the old key with the new one, and keeps no history of key changes, the user data can never be recovered. This is tantamount to an instantaneous data erase and is very useful if the drive is to be scrapped or redispositioned.

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9.7

Authenticated firmware download

In addition to providing a locking mechanism to prevent unwanted firmware download attempts, the drive also only accepts download files which have been cryptographically signed by the appropriate Seagate Design

Center.

Three conditions must be met before the drive will allow the download operation:

1.

The download must be an SED file. A standard (base) drive (non-SED) file will be rejected.

2.

The download file must be signed and authenticated.

3.

As with a non-SED drive, the download file must pass the acceptance criteria for the drive. For example it must be applicable to the correct drive model, and have compatible revision and customer status.

9.8

Power requirements

The standard drive models and the SED drive models have identical hardware, however the security and encryption portion of the drive controller ASIC is enabled and functional in the SED models. This represents a small additional drain on the 5V supply of about 30mA and a commensurate increase of about 150mW in

power consumption. There is no additional drain on the 12V supply. See the tables in Section 7.3 for power

requirements on the standard (non-SED) drive models.

9.9

Supported commands

The SED models support the following two commands in addition to the commands supported by the standard

(non-SED) models as listed in Table 7:

• Security Protocol Out (B5h)

• Security Protocol In (A2h)

9.10

RevertSP

The SED models will support RevertSP feature where it erases all data in all bands on the device and returns the contents of all SPs (Security Providers) on the device to their Original Factory State.

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10.0

Defect and error management

Seagate continues to use innovative technologies to manage defects and errors. These technologies are designed to increase data integrity, perform drive self-maintenance, and validate proper drive operation.

SCSI defect and error management involves drive internal defect/error management and SAS system error considerations (errors in communications between the initiator and the drive). In addition, Seagate provides the following technologies used to increase data integrity and drive reliability:

• Background Media Scan (see Section 10.4)

• Media Pre-Scan (see Section 10.5)

• Deferred Auto-Reallocation (see Section 10.6)

• Idle Read After Write (see Section 10.7)

The read error rates and specified storage capacities are not dependent on host (initiator) defect management routines.

10.1

Drive internal defects/errors

During the initial drive format operation at the factory, media defects are identified, tagged as being unusable, and their locations recorded on the drive primary defects list (referred to as the “P’ list and also as the ETF defect list). At factory format time, these known defects are also reallocated, that is, reassigned to a new place on the medium and the location listed in the defects reallocation table. The “P” list is not altered after factory formatting. Locations of defects found and reallocated during error recovery procedures after drive shipment are listed in the “G” list (defects growth list). The “P” and “G” lists may be referenced by the initiator using the

Read Defect Data command.

Details of the SCSI commands supported by the drive are described in the SAS Interface Manual. Also, more information on the drive Error Recovery philosophy is presented in the SAS Interface Manual.

10.2

Drive error recovery procedures

When an error occurs during drive operation, the drive, if programmed to do so, performs error recovery procedures to attempt to recover the data. The error recovery procedures used depend on the options previously set in the Error Recovery Parameters mode page. Error recovery and defect management may involve using several SCSI commands described in the SAS Interface Manual. The drive implements selectable error recovery time limits required in video applications.

The error recovery scheme supported by the drive provides a way to control the total error recovery time for the entire command in addition to controlling the recovery level for a single LBA. The total amount of time spent in error recovery for a command can be limited using the Recovery Time Limit bytes in the Error Recovery mode page. The total amount of time spent in error recovery for a single LBA can be limited using the Read Retry

Count or Write Retry Count bytes in the Error Recovery mode page.

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The drive firmware error recovery algorithms consists of 20 levels for read recoveries and six levels for write.

Each level may consist of multiple steps, where a step is defined as a recovery function involving a single reread or re-write attempt. The maximum level used by the drive in LBA recovery is determined by the read and write retry counts.

Table 4 equates the read and write retry count with the maximum possible recovery time for read and write recovery of individual LBAs. The times given do not include time taken to perform reallocations. Reallocations are performed when the ARRE bit (for reads) or AWRE bit (for writes) is one, the RC bit is zero, and the recovery time limit for the command has not yet been met. Time needed to perform reallocation is not counted against the recovery time limit.

When the RC bit is one, reallocations are disabled even if the ARRE or AWRE bits are one. The drive will still perform data recovery actions within the limits defined by the Read Retry Count, Write Retry Count, and

Recovery Time Limit parameters. However, the drive does not report any unrecovered errors.

Table 4: Read and write retry count maximum recovery times

Read retry count*

Maximum recovery time per

LBA (cumulative, ms)

1

5

10

15

20 (default)

123.60

402.70

730.40

1065.00

1538.00

0

1

Write retry count

Maximum recovery time per

LBA (cumulative, ms)

35.94

53.91

2

3

4

5 (default)

79.89

97.86

175.85

421.79

* For read retry count, every tick ~ 5% of total error recovery. Valid range setting is 1-20.

e.g. 1 ~ 5%

5 ~ 25%

20 ~ 100%

Setting these retry counts to a value below the default setting could result in degradation of the unrecovered error rate. For example, suppose the read/write recovery page has the RC bit = 0 and if the read retry count is set to 5, this means ~ 25% of error recovery will be executed which consumes 621.62 ms (please refer to the table above). If the limit is reached and a LBA has not yet been recovered (i.e. requires retries beyond 621.62 ms), the command will end with Check Condition status report and unrecoverable read error will be reported.

10.3

SAS system errors

Information on the reporting of operational errors or faults across the interface is given in the SAS Interface

Manual. The SSP Response returns information to the host about numerous kinds of errors or faults. The

Receive Diagnostic Results reports the results of diagnostic operations performed by the drive.

Status returned by the drive to the initiator is described in the SAS Interface Manual. Status reporting plays a role in systems error management and its use in that respect is described in sections where the various commands are discussed.

10.4

Background Media Scan

Background Media Scan (BMS) is a self-initiated media scan. BMS is defined in the T10 document SPC-4 available from the T10 committee. BMS performs sequential reads across the entire pack of the media while the drive is idle. In RAID arrays, BMS allows hot spare drives to be scanned for defects prior to being put into

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service by the host system. On regular duty drives, if the host system makes use of the BMS Log Page, it can avoid placing data in suspect locations on the media. Unreadable and recovered error sites will be logged or reallocated per ARRE/AWRE settings.

With BMS, the host system can consume less power and system overhead by only checking BMS status and results rather than tying up the bus and consuming power in the process of host-initiated media scanning activity.

Since the background scan functions are only done during idle periods, BMS causes a negligible impact to system performance. The first BMS scan for a newly manufactured drive is performed as quickly as possible to verify the media and protect data by setting the “Start time after idle” to 5ms, all subsequent scans begin after

500ms of idle time. Other features that normally use idle time to function will function normally because BMS functions for time limited bursts then suspends activity to allow other background functions to operate.

BMS interrupts immediately to service host commands from the interface bus while performing reads. BMS will complete any BMS-initiated error recovery prior to returning to service host-initiated commands. Overhead associated with a return to host-servicing activity from BMS only impacts the first command that interrupted

BMS, this results in a typical delay of about 1ms.

10.5

Media Pre-Scan

Media Pre-Scan is a feature that allows the drive to repair media errors that would otherwise have been found by the host system during critical data accesses early in the drive’s life. The default setting for Media Pre-Scan is enabled on standard products. Media Pre-Scan checks each write command to determine if the destination

LBAs have been scanned by BMS. If the LBAs have been verified, the drive proceeds with the normal write command. If the LBAs have not been verified by BMS, Pre-Scan will convert the write to a write verify to certify that the data was properly written to the disk.

Note.

During Pre-Scan write verify commands, write performance may decrease by 50% until Pre-Scan completes. Write performance testing should be performed after Pre-Scan is complete. This may be checked by reading the BMS status.

To expedite the scan of the full pack and subsequently exit from the Pre-Scan period, BMS will begin scanning immediately when the drive goes to idle during the Pre-Scan period. In the event that the drive is in a high transaction traffic environment and is unable to complete a BMS scan within 24 power on hours BMS will disable Pre-Scan to restore full performance to the system.

10.6

Deferred Auto-Reallocation

Deferred Auto-Reallocation (DAR) simplifies reallocation algorithms at the system level by allowing the drive to reallocate unreadable locations on a subsequent write command. Sites are marked for DAR during read operations performed by the drive. When a write command is received for an LBA marked for DAR, the auto-reallocation process is invoked and attempts to rewrite the data to the original location. If a verification of this rewrite fails, the sector is re-mapped to a spare location.

This is in contrast to the system having to use the Reassign Command to reassign a location that was unreadable and then generate a write command to rewrite the data. DAR is most effective when AWRE and ARRE are enabled—this is the default setting from the Seagate factory. With AWRE and ARRE disabled DAR is unable to reallocate the failing location and will report an error sense code indicating that a write command is being attempted to a previously failing location.

10.7

Idle Read After Write

Idle Read After Write (IRAW) utilizes idle time to verify the integrity of recently written data. During idle periods, no active system requests, the drive reads recently written data from the media and compares it to valid write command data resident in the drives data buffer. Any sectors that fail the comparison result in the invocation of a rewrite and auto-reallocation process. The process attempts to rewrite the data to the original location. If a verification of this rewrite fails, the sector is re-mapped to a spare location.

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10.8

Protection Information (PI)

Protection Information is intended as a standardized approach to system level LRC traditionally provided by systems using 520 byte formatted LBAs. Drives formatted with PI information provide the same, common LBA count (i.e. same capacity point) as non-PI formatted drives. Sequential performance of a PI drive will be reduced by approximately 1.56% due to the extra overhead of PI being transferred from the media that is not calculated as part of the data transferred to the host. To determine the full transfer rate of a PI drive, transfers should be calculated by adding the 8 extra bytes of PI to the transferred LBA length, i.e. 512 + 8 = 520. PI formatted drives are physically formatted to 520 byte sectors that store 512 bytes of customer data with 8 bytes of

Protection Information appended to it. The advantage of PI is that the Protection Information bits can be managed at the HBA and HBA driver level. Allowing a system that typically does not support 520 LBA formats to integrate this level of protection.

Protection Information is valid with any supported LBA size. 512 LBA size is used here as common example.

10.8.1

Levels of PI

There are 4 types of Protection Information.

Type 0 - Describes a drive that is not formatted with PI information bytes. This allows for legacy support in non-

PI systems.

Type 1 - Provides support of PI protection using 10 and 16 byte commands. The RDPROTECT and WRTPRO-

TECT bits allow for checking control through the CDB. Eight bytes of Protection Information are transmitted at

LBA boundaries across the interface if RDPROTECT and WRTPROTECT bits are nonzero values. Type 1 does not allow the use of 32 byte commands.

Type 2 - Provides checking control and additional expected fields within the 32 byte CDBs. Eight bytes of Protection Information are transmitted at LBA boundaries across the interface if RDPROTECT and WRTPRO-

TECT bits are nonzero values. Type 2 does allow the use of 10 and 16 byte commands with zero values in the

RDPROTECT and WRTPROTECT fields. The drive will generate 8 bytes (e.g.0xFFFF) 8 bytes of Protection

Information to be stored on the media, but the 8 bytes will not be transferred to the host during a read command.

Type 3 - Seagate products do not support Type 3.

10.8.2

Setting and determining the current Type Level

A drive is initialized to a type of PI by using the format command on a PI capable drive. Once a drive is formatted to a PI Type, it may be queried by a Read Capacity (16) command to report the PI type which it is currently formatted to. PI Types cannot coexist on a single drive. A drive can only be formatted to a single PI Type. It can be changed at anytime to a new Type but requires a low level format which destroys all existing data on the drive. No other vehicle for changing the PI type is provided by the T10 SBC3 specification.

Type 1 PI format CDB command: 04 90 00 00 00 00, Write Buffer: 00 A0 00 00

Type 2 PI format CDB command: 04 D0 00 00 00 00, Write Buffer: 00 A0 00 00

10.8.3

Identifying a Protection Information drive

The Standard Inquiry provides a bit to indicate if PI is support by the drive. Vital Product Descriptor (VPD) page

0x86 provides bits to indicate the PI Types supported and which PI fields the drive supports checking.

Note.

For further details with respect to PI, please refer to SCSI Block Commands - 3 (SBC-3) Draft Standard documentation.

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11.0

Installation

Savvio disk drive installation is a plug-and-play process. There are no jumpers, switches, or terminators on the drive.

SAS drives are designed to be used in a host system that provides a SAS-compatible backplane with bays designed to accommodate the drive. In such systems, the host system typically provides a carrier or tray into which you need to mount the drive. Mount the drive to the carrier or tray provided by the host system using four

M3 x 0.5 metric screws. When tightening the screws, use a maximum torque of 4.5 in-lb +/- 0.45 in-lb. Do not over-tighten or force the screws. You can mount the drive in any orientation.

Note.

SAS drives are designed to be attached to the host system without I/O or power cables. If you intend the use the drive in a non-backplane host system, connecting the drive using high-quality cables is acceptable as long as the I/O cable length does not exceed 10 m (32.8 ft).

Slide the carrier or tray into the appropriate bay in your host system using the instructions provided by the host system. This connects the drive directly to your system’s SAS connector. The SAS connector is normally

located on a SAS backpanel. See Section 12.4.1 for additional information about these connectors.

Power is supplied through the SAS connector.

The drive is shipped from the factory low-level formatted in 512-byte logical blocks. You need to reformat the drive only if you want to select a different logical block size.

Figure 11. Physical interface

11.1

Drive orientation

The drive may be mounted in any orientation. All drive performance characterizations, however, have been done with the drive in horizontal (disks level) and vertical (drive on its side) orientations, which are the two preferred mounting orientations.

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11.2

Cooling

Cabinet cooling must be designed by the customer so that the ambient temperature immediately surrounding

the drive will not exceed temperature conditions specified in Section 7.5.1, "Temperature."

The rack, cabinet, or drawer environment for the drive must provide heat removal from the electronics and head and disk assembly (HDA). You should confirm that adequate heat removal is provided using the temper-

ature measurement guidelines described in Section 7.5.1.

Forced air flow may be required to keep temperatures at or below the temperatures specified in Section 7.5.1

in which case the drive should be oriented, or air flow directed, so that the least amount of air flow resistance is created while providing air flow to the electronics and HDA. Also, the shortest possible path between the air inlet and exit should be chosen to minimize the travel length of air heated by the drive and other heat sources within the rack, cabinet, or drawer environment.

If forced air is determined to be necessary, possible air-flow patterns are shown in Figure 12. The air-flow pat-

terns are created by one or more fans, either forcing or drawing air as shown in the illustrations. Conduction, convection, or other forced air-flow patterns are acceptable as long as the temperature measurement guide-

lines of Section 7.5.1 are met.

Above unit

Note. Air flows in the direction shown (back to front)

or in reverse direction (front to back)

Under unit

Above unit

Under unit

Note. Air flows in the direction shown or

in reverse direction (side to side)

Figure 12. Air flow

Note.

Image of the HDA may not represent actual product, for reference only.

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11.3

Drive mounting

Mount the drive using the bottom or side mounting holes. If you mount the drive using the bottom holes, ensure that you do not physically distort the drive by attempting to mount it on a stiff, non-flat surface.

The allowable mounting surface stiffness is 80 lb/in (14.0 N/mm). The following equation and paragraph define the allowable mounting surface stiffness:

K x X = F < 15lb = 67N where K is the mounting surface stiffness (units in lb/in or N/mm) and X is the out-of-plane surface distortion

(units in inches or millimeters). The out-of-plane distortion (X) is determined by defining a plane with three of the four mounting points fixed and evaluating the out-of-plane deflection of the fourth mounting point when a known force (F) is applied to the fourth point.

11.4

Grounding

Signal ground (PCBA) and HDA ground are connected together in the drive and cannot be separated by the user. The equipment in which the drive is mounted is connected directly to the HDA and PCBA with no electrically isolating shock mounts. If it is desired for the system chassis to not be connected to the HDA/PCBA ground, the systems integrator or user must provide a nonconductive (electrically isolating) method of mounting the drive in the host equipment.

Increased radiated emissions may result if you do not provide the maximum surface area ground connection between system ground and drive ground. This is the system designer’s and integrator’s responsibility.

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12.0

Interface requirements

This section partially describes the interface requirements as implemented on Savvio drives. Additional information is provided in the SAS Interface Manual (part number 100293071).

12.1

SAS features

This section lists the SAS-specific features supported by Savvio drives.

12.1.1

Task management functions

Table 5 lists the SAS task management functions supported.

Table 5: SAS task management functions supported

Task name

Abort Task

Clear ACA

Clear task set

Abort task set

Logical Unit Reset

Query Task

Supported

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

12.1.2

Task management responses

Table 6 lists the SAS response codes returned for task management functions supported.

Table 6: Task management response codes

Function name

Function complete

Invalid frame

Function not supported

Function failed

Function succeeded

Invalid logical unit

05

08

09

Response code

00

02

04

Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B 47

12.2

Dual port support

Savvio SAS drives have two independent ports. These ports may be connected in the same or different SCSI domains. Each drive port has a unique SAS address.

The two ports have the capability of independent port clocking (e.g. both ports can run at 6Gb/s or the first port can run at 6Gb/s while the second port runs at 3Gb/s.) The supported link rates are 1.5, 3.0, or 6.0 Gb/s.

Subject to buffer availability, the Savvio drives support:

• Concurrent port transfers—The drive supports receiving COMMAND, TASK management transfers on both ports at the same time.

• Full duplex—The drive supports sending XFER_RDY, DATA and RESPONSE transfers while receiving frames on both ports.

12.3

SCSI commands supported

Table 7 lists the SCSI commands supported by Savvio drives.

Table 7: Supported commands

Command name

Change Definition

Compare

Copy

Copy and Verify

Format Unit [1]

DPRY bit supported

DCRT bit supported

STPF bit supported

IP bit supported

DSP bit supported

IMMED bit supported

VS (vendor specific)

Inquiry

Date Code page (C1h)

Device Behavior page (C3h)

Firmware Numbers page (C0h)

Implemented Operating Def page (81h)

Jumper Settings page (C2h)

Supported Vital Product Data page (00h)

Unit Serial Number page (80h)

Lock-unlock cache

Log Select

PCR bit

DU bit

DS bit

TSD bit

ETC bit

TMC bit

Command code Supported

40h

39h

18h

3Ah

04h

12h

36h

4Ch

N

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

N

N

N

N

N

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Table 7: Supported commands

Command name

LP bit

Protocol-specific Log Page for SAS (18h)

Log Sense

Application Client Log page (0Fh)

Buffer Over-run/Under-run page (01h)

Cache Statistics page (37h)

Factory Log page (3Eh)

Information Exceptions Log page (2Fh)

Last n Deferred Errors or Asynchronous Events page (0Bh)

Last n Error Events page (07h)

Non-medium Error page (06h)

Pages Supported list (00h)

Read Error Counter page (03h)

Read Reverse Error Counter page (04h)

Self-test Results page (10h)

Start-stop Cycle Counter page (0Eh)

Temperature page (0Dh)

Verify Error Counter page (05h)

Write error counter page (02h)

Mode Select (same pages as Mode Sense 1Ah)

Mode Select (10) (same pages as Mode Sense 1Ah)

Mode Sense

Caching Parameters page (08h)

Control Mode page (0Ah)

Disconnect/Reconnect (02h)

Error Recovery page (01h)

Format page (03h)

Information Exceptions Control page (1Ch)

Background Scan mode subpage (01h)

Notch and Partition Page (0Ch)

Protocol-Specific Port page (19h)

Power Condition page (1Ah)

Rigid Disc Drive Geometry page (04h)

Unit Attention page (00h)

Verify Error Recovery page (07h)

Xor Control page (10h)

Mode Sense (10) (same pages as Mode Sense 1Ah)

Persistent Reserve In

Persistent Reserve Out

Prefetch

Read (6)

Read (10)

5Ah

5Eh

5Fh

34h

08h

28h

Command code Supported

4Dh

15h

55h

1Ah

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y [2]

Y

Y [2]

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B 49

Table 7: Supported commands

Command name

DPO bit supported

FUA bit supported

Read (12)

Read (16)

Read (32)

Read Buffer (modes 0, 2, 3, Ah and Bh supported)

Read Capacity (10)

Read Capacity (16)

Read Defect Data (10)

Read Defect Data (12)

Read Long

Read Long (16)

Reassign Blocks

Receive Diagnostic Results

Supported Diagnostics pages (00h)

Translate page (40h)

Release

Release (10)

Report LUNs

Request Sense

Actual Retry Count bytes

Extended Sense

Field Pointer bytes

Reserve

3rd Party Reserve

Extent Reservation

Reserve (10)

3rd Party Reserve

Extent Reservation

Rezero Unit

Search Data Equal

Search Data High

Search Data Low

Security Protocol In

Security Protocol Out

Seek (6)

Seek (10)

Send Diagnostics

Supported Diagnostics pages (00h)

Translate page (40h)

Set Limits

Start Unit/Stop Unit (spindle ceases rotating)

50

01h

31h

30h

32h

A2h

B5h

0Bh

2Bh

1Dh

A8h

88h

7Fh/0009h

3Ch

25h

9Eh/10h

37h

B7h

3Eh

9Eh/11h

07h

1Ch

Command code Supported

17h

57h

A0h

03h

16h

56h

33h

1Bh

Y

N

Y

N

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

N

Y (non-SED drives only)

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y (non-SED drives only)

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

N

Y (SED drives only)

Y (SED drives only)

Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B

Table 7: Supported commands

Command name

Synchronize Cache

Synchronize Cache (16)

Test Unit Ready

Verify (10)

BYTCHK bit

Verify (12)

Verify (16)

Verify (32)

Write (6)

Write (10)

DPO bit

FUA bit

Write (12)

Write (16)

Write (32)

Write and Verify (10)

DPO bit

Write and Verify (12)

Write and Verify (16)

Write and Verify (32)

Write Buffer (modes 0, 2, supported)

Write Buffer

Firmware Download option (modes 5, 7, Ah and Bh) [3]

Firmware Download option (modes 4, 5, 7)

Write Long (10)

Write Long (16)

Write Same (10)

PBdata

LBdata

Write Same (16)

Write Same (32)

XDRead

XDWrite

XPWrite

Command code Supported

35h

91h

00h

2Fh

AFh

AFh

7Fh/000Ah

0Ah

2Ah

AAh

8Ah

7Fh/000Bh

2Eh

AEh

8Eh

7Fh/000Ch

3Bh

3Bh

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

N

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

N

Y

N

Y (non-SED drives only)

3Fh

9Fh/11h

41h

93h

7Fh/000Dh

52h

50h

51h

Y

N

N

N

N

Y

Y

N

N

Y (non-SED drives only)

Y (SED drives only)

Y

[1] Savvio drives can format to 512, 520, 524, or 528 bytes per logical block.

[2] Warning. Power loss during flash programming can result in firmware corruption. This usually makes the drive inoperable.

[3] Reference Mode Sense command 1Ah for mode pages supported.

[4] Y = Yes. Command is supported.

N = No. Command is not supported.

A = Support is available on special request.

Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B 51

12.3.1

Inquiry data

Table 8 lists the Inquiry command data that the drive should return to the initiator per the format given in the

SAS Interface Manual.

Table 8: Savvio inquiry data

Bytes

0-15

16-31

32-47

48-63

64-79

80-95

96-111

112-127

128-143

Data (hex)

00 00

[53 54

R#

00

R#

00

03**

39

R#

00

12

33

R#

00

00 00 00

00 00 00

00 43 6F

30* 31* 30*

72 69 67

8B

30

S# S#

00

00

30

00

PP

36

00

0A

35

S# S#

00

53

33

S#

00

45

53

S#

00

41

53]

S#

00

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

70 79 72 69 67 68 74 20

20 53 65 61 67 61 74 65

68 74 73 20 72 65 73 65

47

20

S#

00

41

20

00

00

54

20

00

00

45

20

00

00

20

20

00

00

Vendor ID

Product ID

00 00 00 00 00

00 00 00 00 00

28 63 29 20 32* *Copyright

20 41 6C 6C 20 notice

72 76 65 64 20

* Copyright year (changes with actual year).

** SCSI Revision support. See the appropriate SPC release documentation for definitions.

PP 10 = Inquiry data for an Inquiry command received on Port A.

30 = Inquiry data for an Inquiry command received on Port B.

R# Four ASCII digits representing the last four digits of the product firmware release number.

S# Eight ASCII digits representing the eight digits of the product serial number.

[ ] Bytes 16 through 26 reflect model of drive. The table above shows the hex values for Model ST9300653SS.

Refer to the values below for the values of bytes 16 through 26 of your particular model:

ST9300553SS

ST9300453SS

ST9146853SS

ST9146753SS

ST9146653SS

53 54 39 33 30 30 35 35 33 53 53

53 54 39 33 30 30 34 35 33 53 53

53 54 39 31 34 36 38 35 33 53 53

53 54 39 31 34 36 37 35 33 53 53

53 54 39 31 34 36 36 35 33 53 53

12.3.2

Mode Sense data

The Mode Sense command provides a way for the drive to report its operating parameters to the initiator. The drive maintains four sets of mode parameters:

1.

Default values

Default values are hard-coded in the drive firmware stored in flash E-PROM (nonvolatile memory) on the drive’s PCB. These default values can be changed only by downloading a complete set of new firmware into the flash E-PROM. An initiator can request and receive from the drive a list of default values and use those in a Mode Select command to set up new current and saved values, where the values are changeable.

2.

Saved values

Saved values are stored on the drive’s media using a Mode Select command. Only parameter values that are allowed to be changed can be changed by this method. Parameters in the saved values list that are not changeable by the Mode Select command get their values from default values storage.

When power is applied to the drive, it takes saved values from the media and stores them as current values in volatile memory. It is not possible to change the current values (or the saved values) with a Mode

52 Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B

Select command before the drive achieves operating speed and is “ready.” An attempt to do so results in a

“Check Condition” status.

On drives requiring unique saved values, the required unique saved values are stored into the saved values storage location on the media prior to shipping the drive. Some drives may have unique firmware with unique default values also.

On standard OEM drives, the saved values are taken from the default values list and stored into the saved values storage location on the media prior to shipping.

3.

Current values

Current values are volatile values being used by the drive to control its operation. A Mode Select command can be used to change the values identified as changeable values. Originally, current values are installed from saved or default values after a power on reset, hard reset, or Bus Device Reset message.

4.

Changeable values

Changeable values form a bit mask, stored in nonvolatile memory, that dictates which of the current values and saved values can be changed by a Mode Select command. A one (1) indicates the value can be

changed. A zero (0) indicates the value is not changeable. For example, in Table 9, refer to Mode page 81,

in the row entitled “CHG.” These are hex numbers representing the changeable values for Mode page 81.

Note in columns 5 and 6 (bytes 04 and 05), there is 00h which indicates that in bytes 04 and 05 none of the bits are changeable. Note also that bytes 06, 07, 09, 10, and 11 are not changeable, because those fields are all zeros. In byte 02, hex value FF equates to the binary pattern 11111111. If there is a zero in any bit position in the field, it means that bit is not changeable. Since all of the bits in byte 02 are ones, all of these bits are changeable.

The changeable values list can only be changed by downloading new firmware into the flash E-PROM.

Note.

Because there are often several different versions of drive control firmware in the total population of drives in the field, the Mode Sense values given in the following tables may not exactly match those of some drives.

The following tables list the values of the data bytes returned by the drive in response to the Mode Sense command pages for SCSI implementation (see the SAS Interface Manual ).

DEF = Default value. Standard OEM drives are shipped configured this way.

CHG = Changeable bits; indicates if default value is changeable.

Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B 53

Table 9: Mode Sense data default and changeable values for 300GB drives

MODE DATA HEADER:

00 00 05 12 8B 01 30 02

MODE PAGES:

DEF 81 0A C0 14 FF 00 00 00 05 00 FF FF

CHG 81 0A FF FF 00 00 00 00 FF 00 FF FF

DEF 82 0E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 3A 00 00 00 00

CHG 82 0E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF 00 00 00 00

DEF 83 16 BB D0 00 00 00 00 03 80 04 C4 02 00 00 01 00 C9 00 24 40 00 00 00

CHG 83 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 84 16 01 A5 19 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3A A7 00 00

CHG 84 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 87 0A 00 14 FF 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF

CHG 87 0A 0F FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF

DEF 88 12 14 00 FF FF 00 00 FF FF FF FF 80 20 00 00 00 00 00 00

CHG 88 12 A5 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 8A 0A 02 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 08 04

CHG 8A 0A 07 F6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 18 06 06 00 00 00 00 00

CHG 18 06 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 99 0E 46 00 07 D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

CHG 99 0E 50 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 9A 26 00 02 00 00 00 0A 00 00 8C A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

CHG 9A 26 00 02 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 9C 0A 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01

CHG 9C 0A 9D 0F FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF

DEF 80 06 00 80 0F 00 00 00

CHG 80 06 B7 C0 8F 00 00 00

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Table 10: Mode Sense data default and changeable values for 146GB drives

MODE DATA HEADER:

00 00 05 12 8B 01 30 02

MODE PAGES:

DEF 81 0A C0 14 FF 00 00 00 05 00 FF FF

CHG 81 0A FF FF 00 00 00 00 FF 00 FF FF

DEF 82 0E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 3A 00 00 00 00

CHG 82 0E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF 00 00 00 00

DEF 83 16 BB D0 00 00 00 00 03 80 04 C4 02 00 00 01 00 C9 00 24 40 00 00 00

CHG 83 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 84 16 01 A5 19 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3A A7 00 00

CHG 84 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 87 0A 00 14 FF 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF

CHG 87 0A 0F FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF

DEF 88 12 14 00 FF FF 00 00 FF FF FF FF 80 20 00 00 00 00 00 00

CHG 88 12 A5 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 8A 0A 02 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 04 4B

CHG 8A 0A 07 F6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 18 06 06 00 00 00 00 00

CHG 18 06 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 99 0E 46 00 07 D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

CHG 99 0E 50 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 9A 26 00 02 00 00 00 0A 00 00 8C A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

CHG 9A 26 00 02 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

DEF 9C 0A 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01

CHG 9C 0A 9D 0F FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF

DEF 80 06 00 80 0F 00 00 00

CHG 80 06 B7 C0 8F 00 00 00

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12.4

Miscellaneous operating features and conditions

Table 11 lists various features and conditions. A “Y” in the support column indicates the feature or condition is

supported. An “N” in the support column indicates the feature or condition is not supported.

Table 11: Miscellaneous features

Supported

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Feature or condition

Automatic contingent allegiance

Asynchronous event notification

Synchronized (locked) spindle operation

Segmented caching

Zero latency read

Queue tagging (up to 128 queue tags supported)

Deferred error handling

Parameter rounding (controlled by Round bit in Mode Select page 0)

Reporting actual retry count in Extended Sense bytes 15, 16, and 17

Adaptive caching

SMP = 1 in Mode Select command needed to save RPL and rotational offset bytes

Table 12: Miscellaneous status

Supported

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

N

Y

Y

Status

Good

Check condition

Condition met/good

Busy

Intermediate/good

Intermediate/condition met/good

Reservation conflict

Task set full

ACA active

ACA active, faulted initiator

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12.4.1

SAS physical interface

Figure 13 shows the location of the SAS device connector J1. Figures 14 and 15 provide the dimensions of the

SAS connector.

Details of the physical, electrical, and logical characteristics are provided within this section. The operational aspects of Seagate’s SAS drives are provided in the SAS Interface Manual.

Figure 13. Physical interface

Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B 57

5.92

7.62

0.80 (6X)

4.65

0.30 0.05 (2X)

2.00 (3X)

B

C

5.08

42.73 REF.

41.13 0.15

0.20 B

0.45 0.03 (7X)

0.10 M E

0.52 0.08 x 45

A

1.10

4.00 0.08

0.15 D

0.30 0.05 (4X) B

A R0.30 0.08 (4X)

C

15.875

1.27 (14X)

33.43 0.05

5.08

15.875

1.27 (6X)

SEE Detail1

B

0.84 0.05 (22X)

0.15 B

4.90 0.08

0.35MIN

P15

P1

S7

S1

Figure 14. SAS device plug dimensions

58 Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B

S14

Detail A

6.10

S8

0.30 0.05 x 45 (5X)

2.25 0.05

4.85 0.05

0.10 B

E

0.40 0.05 X 45 (3X)

CORING ALLOWED

IN THIS AREA.

SEE Detail 2

4.40 0.15

A

R0.30 0.08

45

C

1.95 0.08

0.35 0.05

3.90 0.15

SECTION A - A

SECTION C - C

0.08 0.05

CONTACT SURFACE FLUSH

TO DATUM A 0.03

1.23 0.05

30

Detail 2

0.08 0.05

2.40 0.08

0.10 A

D

Figure 15. SAS device plug dimensions (detail)

65

SECTION B - B

1.90 0.08

Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B 59

12.4.2

Physical characteristics

This section defines physical interface connector.

12.4.3

Connector requirements

Contact your preferred connector manufacturer for mating part information. Part numbers for SAS connectors will be provided in a future revision of this publication when production parts are available from major connector manufacturers.

The SAS device connector is illustrated in Figures 14 and 15.

12.4.4

Electrical description

SAS drives use the device connector for:

• DC power

• SAS interface

• Activity LED

This connector is designed to either plug directly into a backpanel or accept cables.

12.4.5

Pin descriptions

This section provides a pin-out of the SAS device and a description of the functions provided by the pins.

Table 13: SAS pin descriptions

Pin Signal name Signal type

S1 Port A Ground

Diff. input pair S2* +Port A_in

S3* -Port A_in

S4 Port A Ground

S5* -Port A_out Diff output pair

S6* +Port A_out

S7 Port A Ground

S8 Port B Ground

S9* +Port B_in Diff. input pair

S10* -Port B_in

S11 Port A Ground

S12* -Port B_out

S13* +Port B_out

S14 Port B Ground

Diff output pair

P4

P5

P6

P7

Pin Signal name

P1* NC (reserved 3.3Volts)

Signal type

P2* NC (reserved 3.3Volts)

P3 NC (reserved 3.3Volts)

Ground

Ground

Ground

5 Volts charge

P8* 5 Volts

P9* 5 Volts

P10 Ground

P11* Ready LED

P12 Ground

P13 12 Volts charge

P14* 12 Volts

P15* 12 Volts

Open collector out

* - Short pin to support hot plugging

NC - No connection in the drive.

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12.4.6

SAS transmitters and receivers

A typical SAS differential copper transmitter and receiver pair is shown in Figure 16. The receiver is AC cou-

pling to eliminate ground shift noise.

TX

Transmitter

100

TY

Differential

Transfer Medium

.01

.01

RX

RY

Receiver

100

Figure 16. SAS transmitters and receivers

12.4.7

Power

The drive receives power (+5 volts and +12 volts) through the SAS device connector.

Three +12 volt pins provide power to the drive, 2 short and 1 long. The current return for the +12 volt power supply is through the common ground pins. The supply current and return current must be distributed as evenly as possible among the pins.

Three +5 volt pins provide power to the drive, 2 short and 1 long. The current return for the +5 volt power supply is through the common ground pins. The supply current and return current must be distributed as evenly as possible among the pins.

Current to the drive through the long power pins may be limited by the system to reduce inrush current to the drive during hot plugging.

12.5

Signal characteristics

This section describes the electrical signal characteristics of the drive’s input and output signals. See Table 13

for signal type and signal name information.

12.5.1

Ready LED Out

The Ready LED Out signal is driven by the drive as indicated in Table 14.

Table 14: Ready LED Out conditions

Normal command activity

Ready LED Meaning bit mode page 19h

Spun down and no activity

Spun down and activity (command executing)

Spun up and no activity

Spun up and activity (command executing)

Spinning up or down

Format in progress, each cylinder change

LED status

0 1

Off

On

On

Off

On

Off

Off On

Blinks steadily

(50% on and 50% off, 0.5 seconds on and off for 0.5 seconds)

Toggles on/off

Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B 61

The Ready LED Out signal is designed to pull down the cathode of an LED. The anode is attached to the proper +3.3 volt supply through an appropriate current limiting resistor. The LED and the current limiting resis-

tor are external to the drive. See Table 15 for the output characteristics of the LED drive signals.

Table 15: LED drive signal

State

LED off, high

LED o n, low

Test condition

0 V

VOH

I

OL

= 15 mA

Output voltage

-100 µA < I

OH

< 100 µA

0

OL

12.5.2

Differential signals

The drive SAS differential signals comply with the intra-enclosure (internal connector) requirements of the SAS standard.

Table 16 defines the general interface characteristics.

Table 16: General interface characteristics

Characteristic

Bit rate (nominal)

Unit interval (UI)(nominal)

Impedance (nominal, differential )

Transmitter transients, maximum

Receiver transients, maximum

Units

Mbaud ps ohm

V

V

1.5 Gbps

1500

666.6

100

± 1.2

± 1.2

3.0 Gbps

3000

333.3

100

± 1.2

± 1.2

6.0 Gbps

6000

166.6

100

± 1.2

± 1.2

12.6

SAS-2 Specification compliance

Seagate SAS-2 drives are entirely compatible with the latest SAS-2 Specification (T10/1760-D) Revision 16.

The most important characteristic of the SAS-2 drive at 6Gb/s is that the receiver is capable of adapting the equalizer to optimize the receive margins. The SAS-2 drive has two types of equalizers:

1.

A Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE) which utilizes the standard SAS-2 training pattern transmitted during the SNW-3 training gap. The DFE circuit can derive an optimal equalization characteristic to compensate for many of the receive losses in the system.

2.

A Feed Forward Equalizer (FFE) optimized to provide balanced receive margins over a range of channels bounded by the best and worst case channels as defined by the relevant ANSI standard.

12.7

Additional information

Please contact your Seagate representative for SAS electrical details, if required.

For more information about the Phy, Link, Transport, and Applications layers of the SAS interface, refer to the

Seagate SAS Interface Manual, part number 100293071.

For more information about the SCSI commands used by Seagate SAS drives, refer to the Seagate SCSI

Commands Reference Manual, part number 100293068.

62 Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B

Index

Numerics

12 volt pins

61

5 volt pins

61

6 Gbps

62

A abort task set function

47

AC coupling

61

AC power requirements

23

ACA active status

56

ACA active, faulted initiator status

56

acoustics

34

active LED Out signal

61

actuator

9

assembly design

7

adaptive caching

56

Admin SP

37

AES-128 data encryption

37

air cleanliness

34

air flow

45

illustrated

45

air inlet

45

altitude

32

ambient

31

ambient temperature

45

ANSI documents

SCSI

6

Serial Attached SCSI

6

asynchronous event notification

56

audible noise

3

auto write and read reallocation programmable

8

automatic contingent allegiance

56

average idle current

24

,

25

average rotational latency

11

B

Background Media Scan

41

backpanel

60

Band 0

38

BandMasterX

38

BMS

41

BSMI

4

buffer data

8

space

13

busy status

56

Savvio 15K.3 SAS Product Manual, Rev. B

C cache operation

13

cache segments

13

caching write data

14

Canadian Department of Communications

3

capacity unformatted

11

CBC

37

CE Marking

4

check condition status

56

China RoHS directive 5

Cipher Block Chaining

37

class B limit

3

clear ACA function

47

clear task set function

47

commands supported

48

condensation

31

condition met/good status

56

connector illustrated

60

requirements

60

continuous vibration

34

cooling

45

CRC error

16

Cryptographic erase

38

Current profiles

27

customer service

21

D

DAR

42

Data Bands

38

data bands

37

data block size modifing the

9

Data encryption

37

Data Encryption Key

37

data heads read/write

11

data rate internal

11

data transfer rate

12

DC power

60

requirements

23

Decision Feedback Equalizer

62

decrypt

37

default MSID password

38

defect and error management

40

defects

40

Deferred Auto-Reallocation

42

deferred error handling

56

DEK

37

description

7

DFE

62

63

dimensions

35

disc rotation speed

11

drive

34

drive characteristics

11

Drive Locking

38

drive mounting

35 ,

46

drive select

60

dual port support

48

E electrical description of connector

60

signal characteristics

61

specifications

22

electromagnetic compatibility

3

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)

4

Electromagnetic Compatibility control Regulation

4

electromagnetic susceptibility

34

EMI requirements

3

encryption engine

37

encryption key

38

environment

45

environmental limits

31

requirements

15

environmental control

34

EraseMaster

38

error management

40

rates

15

errors

40

F

FCC rules and regulations

3

features

8

interface

47

Federal Information Processing Standard

36

feed forward equalizer

62

FFE

62

FIPS

36

firmware

8

corruption

51

firmware download port

38

flawed sector reallocation

8

Format command execution time

12

function complete, code 00

47

not supported, code 05

47

reject, code 04

47

G

Global Data Band

38

Good status

56

gradient

31

ground shift noise

61

grounding

46

H

HDA

45

, 46

head and disc assembly (HDA)

7

head and disc assembly. See HDA

heads read/write data

11

heat removal

45

heat source

45

host equipment

46

hot plugging the drive

16

humidity

31

humidity limits

31

I

Identifying a PI drive

43

Idle Read After Write

42

Idle1

22

Idle2

22

Idle3

22

inquiry data

52

installation

44

guide

6

interface commands supported

48

error rate

15

errors

16

illustrated

57

physical

57

requirements

47

intermediate/condition met/good status

56

intermediate/good status

56

internal data rate

11

internal defects/errors

40

internal drive characteristics

11

IRAW

42

J jumpers

44

K

KCC

4

Korean Communications Commission

4

Korean KCC

4

L latency average rotational

11

Locking SP

37 ,

38

LockOnReset

38

logical block address

13

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logical block reallocation scheme

8

logical block size

8 ,

12

M maintenance

15

Makers Secure ID

37

maximum delayed motor start

24 ,

25

maximum start current

24 ,

25

mean time between failure. See MTBF

media description

8

Media Pre-Scan

42

miscellaneous feature support

Adaptive caching

56

Asynchronous event notification

56

Automatic contingent allegiance

56

Deferred error handling

56

Parameter rounding

56

Queue tagging

56

Reporting actual retry count

56

Segmented caching

56

SMP = 1 in Mode Select command

56

Synchronized (locked) spindle operation

56

Zero latency read

56

miscellaneous status support

ACA active

56

ACA active, faulted initiator

56

Busy

56

Check condition

56

Condition met/good

56

Good

56

Intermediate/condition met/good

56

Intermediate/good

56

Reservation conflict

56

Task set full

56

miscorrected media data

15

Mode sense data, table

52 ,

54

mounting

46

holes

46

orientations

44

mounting configuration

35

MSID

37 ,

38

MTBF

15

, 16

N

National Institute of Standards and Technology

36

NIST

36

noise audible

3

noise immunity

26

non-operating

31 ,

32 ,

34

temperature

31

non-operating vibration

34

O office environment

34

operating

31

, 32

, 33

option selection

60

orientation

32

out-of-plane distortion

46

P packaged

32

parameter rounding

56

password

37 ,

38

passwords

38

PCBA

46

peak bits per inch

11

peak operating current

24 ,

25

peak-to-peak measurements

26

performance characteristics detailed

11

general

12

performance degradation

32

performance highlights

9

physical damage

34

physical interface

57

physical specifications

22

PI level - Type 0

43

PI level - Type I

43

PI level - Type II

43

PI level - Type III

43

PI Levels

43

pin descriptions

60

power

61

dissipation

29

requirements, AC

23

requirements, DC

23

sequencing

26

power distribution

3

power management

22

PowerChoice

22

PowerChoice reports

23

PowerCycle

38

prefetch/multi-segmented cache control

13

preventive maintenance

15

protection information

43

protection of data at rest

37

Q queue tagging

56

R radio interference regulations

3

Random number generator

38

RCD bit

13

read error rates

15

, 40

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read/write data heads

11

receivers

61

recommended mounting

33

Recoverable Errors

15

recovered media data

15

reference documents

6

relative humidity

31

reliability

9

specifications

15

reliability and service

16

repair and return information

21

reporting actual retry count

56

reservation conflict status

56

resonance

32

return information

21

RNG

38

RoHS 5 rotation speed

11

S safety

3

SAS interface

60

physical interface

57

task management functions

47

SAS documents

6

SAS Interface Manual

3 ,

6

SAS-2 Specification

62

SCSI interface commands supported

48

Secure ID

37

security partitions

37

Security Protocol In

37

Security Protocol Out

37

seek error defined

16

rate

15

seek performance characteristics

11

seek time average typical

11

full stroke typical

11

single track typical

11

segmented caching

56

self-encrypting drives

37

Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology

9

, 17

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Interface Manual

2

shielding

3

shipping

21

shipping container

31

shock

32

and vibration

32

shock mount

46

SID

37

signal characteristics

61

single-unit shipping pack kit

10

SMART

9 ,

17

SMP = 1 in Mode Select command

56

SNW-3 training gap

62

Specification

62

spindle brake

8

standards

3

Standby1

22

Standby2

22

start/stop time

12

support services

1

surface stiffness allowable for non-flat surface

46

switches

44

synchronized spindle operation

56

system chassis

46

T

Taiwanese BSMI

4

task management functions

47

Abort task set

47

Clear ACA

47

Clear task set

47

terminate task

47

task management response codes

47

Function complete 00

47

Function not supported 05

47

Function reject 04

47

task set full status

56

TCG

37

technical support services

1

temperature

31 ,

45

limits

31

non-operating

31

regulation

3

See also cooling

terminate task function

47

terminators

44

tracks per inch

11

tracks per surface

11

transmitters

61

transporting the drive

21

Trusted Computing Group

37

Type 1 PI format

43

Type 2 PI format

43

U unformatted

9

Unrecoverable Errors

15

unrecovered media data

15

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V vibration

32

, 33

, 34

W warranty

21

Z zero latency read

56

zone bit recording (ZBR)

8

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Seagate Technology LLC

920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066-4544, USA

Publication Number: 100629381, Rev. B

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