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Product Manual
Cheetah 15K.7 FC
Standard models Self-Encrypting Drive models
ST3600057FC ST3600957FC
ST3450857FC ST3450757FC
ST3300657FC ST3300557FC
100516225
Rev. Rev. A
May 2009
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©2009, Seagate Technology LLC All rights reserved. Publication number: 100516225, Rev. A May 2009 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Cheetah, SeaTools and SeaTDD are either trademarks or reg- istered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/ or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their
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Contents 1.0 Scope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2.0 Applicable standards and reference documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1 Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1.1 Electromagnetic compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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6.4.2 Relative humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 6.4.3 Effective altitude (sea level) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 6.4.4 Shock and vibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6.4.5 Acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 6.4.6 Air
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10.5 FC-AL physical interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 10.5.1 Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 10.5.2 Connector requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 10.5.3 Electrical description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 10.5.
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iv Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. A
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1.0 Scope ® ® This manual describes Seagate Technology LLC, Cheetah 15K.7 FC (Fibre Channel) disc drives. Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol specifi- cations to the extent described in this manual. The Fibre Channel Interface Manual (part number 100293070) describes the general Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop characteristics of this and other Seagate Fibre Channel drives. The Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) Users Guide, part number 10051
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2.0 Applicable standards and reference documentation The drive has been developed as a system peripheral to the highest standards of design and construction. The drive depends upon its host equipment to provide adequate power and environment in order to achieve opti- mum 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 regu- lation. In p
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2.1.2 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 sys- tem 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
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2.3 Reference documents ANSI Fibre Channel Documents X3.230-1994 FC Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH) X3.297.1997 FC-PH-2 Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface-2 X3.303.1998 FC-PH-3 Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface-3 X3.272-1996 FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) X3.269-1996 Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP) NCITS TR-19 Private Loop SCSI Direct Attach (PLDA) NCITS TR-20 Fabric Loop Attachment (FC-FLA) SFF-8045 Specification for 40-pin SCA-2 Connector with Parall
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3.0 General description Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems includ- ing engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives support 4-Gbit Fibre Channel. Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) and SCSI Fibre Channel Proto- col as described in the ANSI specifications, this document, and the Fibre Channel Interface Manual which describes the general
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3.1 Standard features Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives have the following standard features: • 4-Gbit Fibre Channel interface • Integrated dual port FC-AL controller • Concurrent dual port transfers • Support for FC arbitrated loop, private and public attachment • Differential copper FC drivers and receivers • Downloadable firmware using the FC-AL interface • Supports SCSI enclosure services via interface connector • 128-deep task set (queue) • Supports up to 32 initiators • Drive selection ID and config
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• Authenticated firmware download 3.2 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. 3.3 Performance • Programmable multi-segmentable cache buffer • 400 Mbytes/sec maximum instantaneous data transfers per port • 15k RPM spindle; average latency = 2.0 msec • Command queuing of up to 128 commands • Background processing of queue
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the extra capacity potential is useful, or whether their assurance of backward and forward compatibility takes precedence. 3.5.1 Programmable drive capacity Using the Mode Select command, the drive can change its capacity to something less than maximum. See the Mode Select Parameter List table in the SCSI Commands Reference Manual. Refer to the Parameter list block descriptor number of blocks field. A value of zero in the number of blocks field indicates that the drive shall not change the c
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4.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives. 4.1 Internal drive characteristics ST3600057FC ST3450857FC ST3300657FC ST3600957FC ST3450757FC ST3300557FC * Drive capacity 600 450 300 Gbytes (formatted, rounded off value) Read/write data heads 8 6 4 Tracks per inch 165,000 165,000 165,000 TPI Peak bits per inch 1,361 1,361 1,361 KBPI 2 Areal Density 225 225 225 Gbits/inch Inter
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Note. There is no significant difference in the format time between SED and non-SED models of the same capacity. 4.2.3 General performance characteristics Sustainable disc transfer rate*: Minimum 122 Mbytes/sec (typical) Maximum 204 Mbytes/sec (typical) Fibre Channel Interface maximum instantaneous transfer rate 400 Mbytes/sec* per port Logical block sizes Default is 512-byte data blocks Sector sizes variable to 512, 520, 524 and 528 bytes. Read/write consecutive sectors on a track Yes Flaw
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4.5 Cache operation Note. Refer to the Fibre Channel Interface Manual for more detail concerning the cache bits. Of the 16 Mbytes physical buffer space in the drive, approximately 13,000 kbytes can be used as a cache. The buffer is divided into logical segments from which data is read and to which data is written. 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 FC Interface Manual ), data request
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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 18 shows the mode default settings for the drive. 4.5.2 Prefetch operation If the Prefetch feature is enabled, data in contiguous logical blocks on the disc immediately beyond that which was requested by a Read command are retrieved and stored in the
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5.0 Reliability specifications The following reliability specifications assume correct host and drive operational interface, including all inter- face timings, power supply voltages, environmental requirements and drive mounting constraints. 8 Seek error rate: Less than 10 errors in 10 seeks Read Error Rates 12 Recovered Data Less than 10 errors in 10 bits transferred (OEM default settings) 16 Unrecovered Data Less than 1 sector in 10 bits transferred 21 Miscorrected Data Less than 1 sector in
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5.1.3 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 8 Key. Recoverable seek errors are specified at Less than 10 errors in 10 seeks. Unrecoverable seek errors (Sense Key = 04h) are classifi
