Maxtor DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Specifications

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA40 - 160GBSATAMarch 2007PN: 100462887

2DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A1.1 About the Serial ATA interfaceThe Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the tradit

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A32.0 Drive specificationsUnless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditio

4DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. ATable 1: Drive specifications summary for 160 Gbyte modelsDrive specification STM3160811AS STM3160211

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A5*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may var

6DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. ATable 2: Drive specifications summary for 80 and 40 Gbyte modelsDrive specification STM380811AS STM38

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A7*One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may var

8DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A2.2 Formatted capacity *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Acc

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A92.4 Recording and interface technology2.5 Physical characteristics Interface Serial ATA (SATA)Recordi

10DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A2.6 Seek timeSeek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times ar

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A112.8 Power specificationsThe drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connect

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12DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A2.8.1.1 Typical current profilesFigure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile Figure 2.

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A132.8.4 Power-management modesThe drive provides programmable power management to provide greater energ

14DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A2.9 Environmental specifications2.9.1 Ambient temperatureAmbient temperature is defined as the temper

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A152.9.6 VibrationAll vibration specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input

16DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A2.11 Electromagnetic immunityWhen properly installed in a representative host system, the drive opera

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A172.13 Agency certification2.13.1 Safety certificationThe drives are recognized in accordance with UL 1

18DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A2.13.3 FCC verificationThese drives are intended to be contained solely within a personal computer or

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A192.15 Corrosive environmentSeagate electronic drive components pass accelerated corrosion testing equi

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DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A213.0 Configuring and mounting the driveThis section contains the specifications and instructions for c

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. Ai

22DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A3.2 Configuring the driveEach drive on the Serial ATA interface connects point-to-point with the Seri

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A233.4 Drive mountingYou can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting h

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DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A254.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interfaceThese drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA interface that suppo

26DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitionsTable 6 summarizes the signals on the Serial ATA

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A274.3 Supported ATA commandsThe following table lists Serial ATA standard commands that the drive suppo

28DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. ASecurity Erase Unit F4HSecurity Freeze F5HSecurity Set Password F1HSecurity Unlock F2HSeek 70HSet Fea

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A294.3.1 Identify Device commandThe Identify Device command (command code ECH) transfers information abo

30DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A60–61 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available(see Section 2.2 for related information)

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A31Note. Advanced Power Management (APM) and Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) features are not suppor

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32DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A4.3.2 Set Features commandThis command controls the implementation of various features that the drive

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A334.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commandsS.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disc drives. When S.M.A

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DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A355.0 Maxtor support servicesBefore contacting Maxtor Support, use the Hard Disk Information feature in

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DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A37IndexAACA 17acceleration 15acoustics 15Active 13Active mode 13actuator arm 11Agency certi

38DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. AIdentify Device 27Identify Device command 29Idle 13, 27Idle Immediate 27Idle mode 11, 1

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A39SS.M.A.R.T. Disable Operations 28S.M.A.R.T. Enable Operations 28S.M.A.R.T. Enable/Disable Autosav

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DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. AiiiContents1.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. AvList of FiguresFigure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . .

DiamondMax 20 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. A11.0 IntroductionThis manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the