Constellation™ Product Overview
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...grade reliability. All other countries. The Seagate Advantage The Seagate® Constellation™ drive is the world's first nearline drive to operate at 500 GB for integrators and OEMs offering ecofriendly nearline...Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one of its affiliated companies in high-end network storage solutions. www.seagate.com 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4283) Specifications Capacities (GB) Interface Spindle speed (RPM) Power (SAS) 500 SAS and SATA; 160 (SATA only) SAS, SATA 7200...
...grade reliability. All other countries. The Seagate Advantage The Seagate® Constellation™ drive is the world's first nearline drive to operate at 500 GB for integrators and OEMs offering ecofriendly nearline...Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one of its affiliated companies in high-end network storage solutions. www.seagate.com 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4283) Specifications Capacities (GB) Interface Spindle speed (RPM) Power (SAS) 500 SAS and SATA; 160 (SATA only) SAS, SATA 7200...
Constellation™ Datasheet
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Data Sheet Constellation™ 2.5-inch Tier 2/nearline drive with the lowest enterprise power usage 500 GB and 160 GB • 7200 RPM • SAS 6Gb/s, SAS 3Gb/s, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s Key Advantages • Industry's first 2.5-inch, 15-mm enterprise-class nearline drive for dense, space-constrained data centers... 54 percent-as low as 1.1 W) during slow or idle periods • The industry's highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24x7 operation • Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance ensures unrivalled performance in high spindle-density applications, and multi...
Data Sheet Constellation™ 2.5-inch Tier 2/nearline drive with the lowest enterprise power usage 500 GB and 160 GB • 7200 RPM • SAS 6Gb/s, SAS 3Gb/s, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s Key Advantages • Industry's first 2.5-inch, 15-mm enterprise-class nearline drive for dense, space-constrained data centers... 54 percent-as low as 1.1 W) during slow or idle periods • The industry's highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24x7 operation • Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance ensures unrivalled performance in high spindle-density applications, and multi...
Constellation™ Datasheet
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... Operating, www.seagate.com 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4283) Specifications 500 GB1 160 GB1 Model Number Interface Interface Access Speed Self Encrypting Drive (SED) Government Grade Security ST9500430SS ST9500431SS (SED) SAS 2.0 SAS 6Gb/s SAS 3Gb/s SAS 1.5Gb/s Yes ST9500530NS SATA SATA 3Gb... multi-drive systems. Seagate proprietary Workload Management technology helps systems keep drives cool. • The best 7200-RPM reliability for current and legacy drives. • Utilize our online troubleshooting and diagnostic tools. Constellation™ 2.5-inch Tier 2/nearline drive with an...
... Operating, www.seagate.com 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4283) Specifications 500 GB1 160 GB1 Model Number Interface Interface Access Speed Self Encrypting Drive (SED) Government Grade Security ST9500430SS ST9500431SS (SED) SAS 2.0 SAS 6Gb/s SAS 3Gb/s SAS 1.5Gb/s Yes ST9500530NS SATA SATA 3Gb... multi-drive systems. Seagate proprietary Workload Management technology helps systems keep drives cool. • The best 7200-RPM reliability for current and legacy drives. • Utilize our online troubleshooting and diagnostic tools. Constellation™ 2.5-inch Tier 2/nearline drive with an...
Constellation Serial ATA Product Manual
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... transfer capability without local processor intervention. • Quiet operation. • SeaTools diagnostic software performs a drive self-test that eliminates unnecessary drive returns. • Support for S.M.A.R.T. ST9500530NS ST9160511NS These drives provide the following Seagate! drive monitoring and reporting. • Supports latching SATA cables and connectors. • Worldwide Name (WWN) capability uniquely identifies the drive. Constellation® Serial ATA model...
... transfer capability without local processor intervention. • Quiet operation. • SeaTools diagnostic software performs a drive self-test that eliminates unnecessary drive returns. • Support for S.M.A.R.T. ST9500530NS ST9160511NS These drives provide the following Seagate! drive monitoring and reporting. • Supports latching SATA cables and connectors. • Worldwide Name (WWN) capability uniquely identifies the drive. Constellation® Serial ATA model...
Constellation Serial ATA Product Manual
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... 12,192 m! (-200 ft. Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 500 and 160 GB models Drive specification Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* Guaranteed ...sectors Heads Discs Bytes per sector Default sectors per track Default read/write heads Default cylinders Recording density, KBPI (kbits/in max) Track density, KTPI (ktracks/in avg.) Areal density, (Gbits/in2 avg) Spindle speed (RPM... (max at 2 msec) Non-Operational Shock (max at 2 msec) ST9500530NS 500 976,773,168 6 3 512 63 16 16,383 1,410 200 283...
... 12,192 m! (-200 ft. Table 1: Drive specifications summary for 500 and 160 GB models Drive specification Formatted Gbytes (512 bytes/sector)* Guaranteed ...sectors Heads Discs Bytes per sector Default sectors per track Default read/write heads Default cylinders Recording density, KBPI (kbits/in max) Track density, KTPI (ktracks/in avg.) Areal density, (Gbits/in2 avg) Spindle speed (RPM... (max at 2 msec) Non-Operational Shock (max at 2 msec) ST9500530NS 500 976,773,168 6 3 512 63 16 16,383 1,410 200 283...
Constellation Serial ATA Product Manual
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... hard drive capacity. sectors 976,773,168 312,581,808 ! Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n-1, where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above . B Model ST9500530NS ST9160511NS Formatted! When addressing these drives...
... hard drive capacity. sectors 976,773,168 312,581,808 ! Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n-1, where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above . B Model ST9500530NS ST9160511NS Formatted! When addressing these drives...
Constellation Serial ATA Product Manual
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... Idle_B mode results in the greatest power savings. Disks spinning at reduced RPM Heads unloaded. The drive preserves the existing idle power settings. B This allows the host to directly transition the drive to tailor systems for tracking purposes: Check Power Mode Reports • ...mode. Load/ Unload Cycle Counter 12 Constellation Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. 2.8.4 Power-management modes PowerChoiceTM power management Drives using one of these reporting methods for performance and greater energy efficiency. Disks spinning at full RPM Heads unloaded. The further you go...
... Idle_B mode results in the greatest power savings. Disks spinning at reduced RPM Heads unloaded. The drive preserves the existing idle power settings. B This allows the host to directly transition the drive to tailor systems for tracking purposes: Check Power Mode Reports • ...mode. Load/ Unload Cycle Counter 12 Constellation Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. 2.8.4 Power-management modes PowerChoiceTM power management Drives using one of these reporting methods for performance and greater energy efficiency. Disks spinning at full RPM Heads unloaded. The further you go...