2 formatted capacity, 1 lba mode, 3 default logical geometry – Maxtor STM3160215AS User Manual

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2.2

Formatted capacity

*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment

and formatting.

2.2.1

LBA mode

When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to n–1,
where n is the number of guaranteed sectors as defined above.

See Section 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60-61 and 100-103) for additional information about 48-
bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes.

2.3

Default logical geometry

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.

Model

Formatted

capacity*

Guaranteed

sectors

Bytes per sector

STM3500630AS

500 Gbytes

976,773,168

512

STM3320620AS

320 Gbytes

625,142,448

512

STM3320820AS

320 Gbytes

625,142,448

512

STM3250824AS

250 Gbytes

488,397,168

512

STM3250820AS

250 Gbytes

488,397,168

512

STM3250310AS

250 Gbytes

488,397,168

512

STM3160815AS

160 Gbytes

312,581,808

512

STM3160215AS

160 Gbytes

312,581,808

512

STM380815AS

80 Gbytes

156,301,488

512

STM380215AS

80 Gbytes

156,301,488

512

STM340215AS

40 Gbytes

78,165,360

512

Cylinders

Read/write heads

Sectors per track

16,383

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