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Question posted by kingmonkey25 on April 8th, 2010

Slow Write Speed?

Has anyone experienced this drive writing at a really slow rate?  I've tried it in XP and Win 7 but same issue.  Data transfer from the drive is fine.

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Barracuda LP Data Sheet - Page 1

Data Sheet Barracuda® LP Low power that has earned recognition for a green world: - 70 percent or more of green practices worldwide Best-Fit Applications • Personal Attached Storage-USB/FireWire/eSATA • Small office and home data storage appliances • Low-power PCs Designed and built to build the drive can be recycled. - Complies with...
Barracuda LP Data Sheet - Page 2

...the increasing customer needs for data storage. All other countries. Meet the Seagate® Barracuda LP family, the low-power drive with the Barracuda LP drive. • The drives enable a faster, more energy-efficient system. When referring to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 2

... may use a different standard of their respective owners. write uncorrectable = 45h); 11. (DC pwr req. Made...drive specifications on Tables 1 -3; Printed in the United States and/or other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Barracuda LP...drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one of Seagate Technology...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 7

Figure 3. D v Serial ATA connectors 21 Attaching SATA cabling 21 Mounting dimensions (2.0, 1.5 and 1.0 TB models 22 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. Figure 2. List of Figures Figure 1.
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 9

... manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda® LP Series model drives: ST32000542AS ST31500541AS ST31000520AS These drives provide the following key features: • 5900 RPM spindle speed. • High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 300MB per second). • Perpendicular recording technology provides the...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 12

... 1500GB models Drive specification Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* Guaranteed sectors Heads Disk Bytes per sector Default sectors per track Default read/write heads Default cylinders Recording density (max.) Track density (avg.) Areal density (avg.) Spindle speed Internal data transfer rate (max.) Sustained data transfer rate OD (max.) I/O data-transfer rate (max.) ATA data-transfer modes...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 13

...Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. Drive specification Operational Shock (max) Non-Operational Shock (max) Vibration, operating Vibration, nonoperating Drive acoustics, sound power Idle** Seek Profile Nonrecoverable read To determine the warranty for a specific drive...asked to hard drive capacity. specification, which may...ST32000542AS 70 Gs at 2ms 300 Gs at 25°C, 50% rel.
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 14

... models Drive specification Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)* Guaranteed sectors Heads Disks Bytes per sector Default sectors per track Default read/write heads Default cylinders Recording density (max) Track density (avg) Areal density (avg) Spindle speed Internal data transfer rate (max) Sustained data transfer rate OD (max) I/O data-transfer rate (max) ATA data-transfer modes supported...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 15

...Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D 7 humidity Yes *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to access the following web page: support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp From this page, click on operating environment and formatting. **During periods of purchase. Drive specification Non-Operational Shock (max.) Vibration, operating Vibration, nonoperating Drive...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 16

... (ktracks/inch avg) Areal density (Gb/in2 avg) Spindle speed (RPM) Internal data transfer rate (Mb/s max.) Sustained data transfer rate (MB/s max.) I/O data-transfer rate (MB/s max.) Serial ATA (SATA) Perpendicular 1417kb/in 236 ktracks/in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to hard drive capacity. See Section 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 17

... in the table below are defined as follows: • Track-to -track Average Read All times are measured using drive diagnostics. 2.4 Physical characteristics Maximum height Maximum width Maximum length Typical weight Cache buffer ST32000542AS and ST31500541AS 26.1mm / 1.028 in 101.85mm / 4.010 in 146.99mm / 5.787 in both directions. • Average...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 18

... /write mode (1 write for the drives are in the table on to speed, with servo electronics active and with the heads in a random track location. • Standby mode During Standby mode, the drive accepts commands, but the drive is measured using 40 percent random seeks, 40 percent read / write electronics are listed in power-down mode. 10 Barracuda LP...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 20

...Using 5-volt power, the drive is calculated by dividing the nominal voltage by the typical RMS read/write current. 2.7.3 Voltage tolerance Voltage tolerance (including noise): 5V +10% / -7.5% 12V +10% / -7.5% 12 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, ...load on the +5V line. • Using 12-volt power, the drive is expected to operate with a maximum of 120 mV peak-to-peak square-wave injected ...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 21

... The drive is in Active mode during the read/write and seek operations. • Idle mode The buffer remains enabled, and the drive accepts all...drive enters Sleep mode after the drive has been inactive for a specifiable length of time. The drive accepts all commands and returns to Active mode any drive activity is established using a Standby or Idle command. D 13 Barracuda LP...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 25

...marked as to the certify agency. 2.12.2 Electromagnetic compatibility Hard drives that the total assembly (enclosure, disk drive, motherboard, power supply, etc.) does comply with the ...Korean-recognized lab. • Family name: Barracuda LP Series • Certificate number: STX-BarracudaLP (B) Australian C-Tick (N176) If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 29

... SATA speed autonegotiation. D 21 Serial ATA drives are Device 0 (master) devices. This option has the benefit of four conductors in Figure 1 below to limit the data transfer rate to... 30 to -point relationship. Barracuda LP Series SATA drives support latching SATA connectors. 3.2 Configuring the drive Each drive on two separate ports. If two drives are inserted directly into the host...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 30

...case temperature measurement location Figure 3. Mounting dimensions (2.0, 1.5 and 1.0 TB models) 22 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. D Follow these important mounting precautions when mounting the drive: • Allow a minimum clearance of 0.030 inches (0.76 mm) around the entire perimeter of the drive for drive mounting dimensions. See Figure 3 for cooling. • Use only...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 31

... Barracuda LP Series SATA drives incorporate connectors which enable you to hot plug these drives in accordance with the Serial ATA Revision 2.6 specification. It supports ATA programmed input/output (PIO) modes 0-4; Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. 4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that supports FIS data transfers...
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 34

... / D0H B0H / D5H B0H / DAH B0H / D3H B0H / D6H E2H E0H E8H CAH 35H CDH CBH 3FH C5H 39H CEH 30H 31H 34H 45H 26 Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. Return Status S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Autosave S.M.A.R.T. Read Data S.M.A.R.T. Execute Offline S.M.A.R.T. D
Barracuda LP Series SATA Product Manual - Page 45

... 16 Specification summary table 3 spindle speed 8 Spinup 11 Spinup power 10 Standby...Write Buffer 26 Write DMA 26 Write DMA Extended 26 Write DMA FUA Extended 26 Write DMA Without Retries 26 Write Log Extended 26 Write Multiple 26 Write Multiple Extended 26 Write Multiple FUA Extended 26 Write Sectors 26 Write Sectors Extended 26 Write Sectors Without Retries 26 Write Uncorrectable 26 Barracuda LP...

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