Seagate ST3500312CS - Pipeline HD 500 GB Hard Drive driver and firmware
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Pipeline HD Product Overview - Page 2
.... Seagate technical support is unmatched and should be an important consideration when selecting a hard drive for A/V applications. Our integration application engineering support is enhanced with services and consultation for chassis and drive mounting, as well as system evaluation for performance and reliability.
Compatibility
Pipeline HD drives are compatible with SATA interface chipsets, the...
Pipeline HD Data Sheet - Page 2
Pipeline HD™
The industry's leading combination of video streaming and low-power performance
Specifications
Model Number
1 TB1
ST31000322CS2
Interface Performance Cache, Multisegmented (MB) SATA Data Transfer Rate (Gb/s, max) Simultaneous SDTV Streams Supported (Assumes 256K host buffer per stream) Simultaneous HDTV Streams Supported (Assumes 2-MB host buffer per stream) Power-On to Ready...
Pipeline HD, enabling fanless DVRs - Page 4
... by aligning themselves with the Seagate brand and vision for powerefficient drives. This includes positioning the Seagate Pipeline HD drive as the industry standard component for fanless DVRs.
Seagate offers OEM partners the confidence of technology excellence, as evidenced by consistent leadership in power density-the primary driver for advances in hard drive efficiency. In terms of innovation...
Green Power with Pipeline HD - Page 1
... integral part of our lives. Plasma TVs, cable boxes and computers increasingly fill our homes. Growing numbers of consumers are turning to personal media centers and digital video recorders (DVRs) to store and play their favorite movies and TV shows, with consumers spending more money each year to enhance and upgrade these technologies. A recent Forrester Research survey...
Green Power with Pipeline HD - Page 4
... and/or other countries. Pipeline HD is either a trademark or registered trademark 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 respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion...
Embedded Hard Drives in Televisions - Page 3
... serial shows, hard-drive televisions could be used to store news media or other time-sensitive content. Consumers could use the Ethernet port to quickly transfer this kind of content to other devices, including laptop PCs, to share it with people in virtually any location.
Television, Convergence, and the Demand for Removable Storage
The transformation of virtually all media into digital...
Embedded Hard Drives in Televisions - Page 4
... their businesses well into the future.
Tru2Way-Extending Interactive TV
Formerly known as the Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP), Tru2Way is software platform that allows recording and viewing devices to connect directly to cable's interactive digital services, enabling a completely new cable television architecture. By putting the cable box on an open platform, manufacturers can embed the...
Niveus Media, Inc. - Page 1
... multi-zone applications. With the most advanced media servers, storage servers, proprietary software and service technologies, Niveus revolutionizes the aggregation, distribution and enjoyment of today's digital media.
Case Study
Niveus Media, Inc.
High-End Digital Media Servers Deliver Peerless Performance With Pipeline HD™ Hard Drives
Just one glance at the elegant styling and exquisite...
Niveus Media, Inc. - Page 2
... central storage location for all of your digital files. But the reliability of the Pipeline HD drive is its primary asset, followed by its video distribution functionality and then its low acoustic output."
Even though budget-friendly Pipeline HD drives are not designed for such rigorous multidrive applications, internal testing by Seagate confirmed the high reliability of Pipeline HD drives when...
Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual - Page 7
... 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. drive monitoring and reporting. • Supports latching SATA cables and connectors. • Worldwide Name (WWN) capability uniquely identifies the drive.
Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev...
Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual - Page 8
... a set of registers that shadow the contents of the traditional device registers, referred to as the Shadow Register Block. All Serial ATA devices behave like Device 0 devices. For additional information about how Serial ATA emulates parallel ATA, refer to the "Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 2.6". The specification can be downloaded from www.sata-io.org.
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Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual - Page 21
... degrees C). Emission levels are reported as the total A-weighted sound power levels for, steady state, idle and active (seek) modes of operations.
Table 4: Drive A-weighted Sound Power Levels (SWL, BA)
500 GB model 320 GB model 160 GB model
Idle[1]
2.1 bels (typ) 2.3 bels (max)
1.9 bels... 95
EN 61000-4-5: 95 EN 61000-4-6: 97
EN 61000-4-11: 94
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Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual - Page 23
... is required.
Seagate has tested this device in enclosures as described above to ensure that the total assembly (enclosure, disk drive, motherboard, power supply, etc.) does comply with the limits for a Class B computing device, pursuant to Subpart J, Part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation with noncertified assemblies is likely to result in interference to radio and television reception.
Radio...
Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual - Page 24
.... The following table contains information mandated by China's "Marking Requirements for Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products" Standard.
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"O" indicates the... as electronic drive component reliability can be affected by the installation environment. The silver, copper, nickel and gold films used in Seagate products are...Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C
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... computer.
• Do not touch the connector pins or the printed circuit board.
• Do not remove the factory-installed labels from the drive or cover them with additional labels. Removal voids the warranty. Some factory-installed labels contain information needed to service the drive. Other labels are used to seal out dirt and contamination.
Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual...
Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual - Page 26
..." on two separate ports. Both drives behave as if they are Device 0 (master) devices.
Serial ATA drives are designed for easy installation. It is usually not necessary to set any jumpers on the drive for proper operation; however, if you connect the drive and receive a "drive not detected" error, your SATAequipped motherboard or host adapter may use a chipset that does not support SATA speed...
Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual - Page 29
... the Serial ATA interface, refer to the "Serial ATA: High Speed Serialized AT Attachment" specification.
4.1
Hot-Plug compatibility
Pipeline HD Series SATA drives incorporate connectors which enable you to hot plug these drives in accordance with the Serial ATA Revision 2.5 specification. This specification can be downloaded from www.serialata.org.
Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual, Rev...
Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual - Page 30
... power pins and the other ground pins. • the signal pins and the rest of the power pins.
3. There are three power pins for each voltage. One pin from each voltage is used for pre-charge when installed in a blind-mate backplane configuration.
4. All used voltage pins (Vx) must be terminated.
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Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual - Page 31
...the Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 2.6 (http:// www.sata-io.org). See "S.M.A.R.T. commands" on page 32.for details and subcommands used in the S.M.A.R.T. implementation.
Table 7: Supported ATA commands
Command name Check Power Mode Device Configuration Freeze Lock Device Configuration Identify Device Configuration Restore Device Configuration Set Device Reset Download...
Pipeline HD Series SATA Product Manual - Page 33
...controller • Bit 0: reserved
Number of logical cylinders
ATA-reserved
Number of logical heads
Retired
Retired
Number of logical sectors per logical track: 63
Retired
Serial number: (20 ASCII characters, 0000H = none) Retired
Retired
Obsolete
Firmware revision (8 ASCII character string, padded with blanks to end of string)
Drive... xxxxH xxxxH
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