IBM DBCA-206480, DBCA-204860, DBCA-203240 Reference Guide

A new benchmark for ultra-portable mobile hard
disk drive capacity, performance, and quality

IBM Travelstar 6GN Hard Disk Drive

Highlights

An industry-leading areal density
of 5.7 Gbits/sq. inch and capaci­ties of 6.4 GB, 4.8 GB, and 3.2 GB
enable users to store and access
the high volumes of data de­manded by Internet, video, and
multimedia applications.

The Travelstar* 6GN provides
excellent performance, fast data
rates, high RPM (4200), a 512 KB
data buffer, and an interface
transfer rate of 33.3 MB/sec.

Drive Fitness Test* (DFT), an
innovative IBM technology,
helps reduce end-user disrup­tion and the expense of disk
drive replacement.

The industry’s best nonoperating
shock rating of 700 G/1 ms and
an operating shock rating of
150 G/2 ms help provide excep­tional ruggedness.

Enhanced Adaptive Battery Life
Extender* 3.0 power manage­ment technology selects the
appropriate mode to help mini­mize power usage and increase
battery life.

Industry’s lightest 6.4 GB
hard disk drive

The Travelstar 6GN demonstrates IBM
leadership in the mobile hard disk drive
market. Giant magnetoresistive (GMR)
head technology increases areal
density, reducing the number of disks
and heads required to provide each
capacity point. The results are greater
storage capacity and the industry’s
lightest 6.4 GB hard disk drive.

Quality leadership

As a member of the Travelstar family, the
Travelstar 6GN shares proven common
components with the Travelstar 10GT
and the Travelstar 14GS—PCBA,
microcode, head, slider, and disks. The
use of common components, com­bined with advanced design and
state-of-the-art manufacturing,
provides superior quality drives and
reduces overall cost of ownership.

Time-to-market advantage

The Travelstar 6GN enables ultra­portable notebook manufacturers to
quickly bring to market 6 GB capacity
while providing industry-leading
performance, power management, and
shock resistance to notebook users.

IBM support and service

The Travelstar 6GN is backed by an
array of IBM technical support and
services. This support package is
designed to help ensure that IBM
customers can easily integrate the
Travelstar 6GN into their design and
quickly develop and manufacture
high-quality, cost-effective systems.

Travelstar 6GN 2.5-inch 9.5 mm hard disk drive

IBM Travelstar 6GN at a glance

DBCA-206480/204860/203240

Configuration

Interface ATA-4
Capacity (GB) 6.4/4.8/3.2

Sector size (bytes) 512
Recording zones 12

User cylinders 11,648
Data heads 4/3/2

Disks 2/2/1
Areal density (max Gbits/sq. inch) 5.7

Recoding density (max KBPI) 286.1
Track density (TPI) 19,900

Performance

Data buffer (KB) 512

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Rotational speed (RPM) 4200
Latency (average ms) 7.1

Media transfer rate 69.0-118.0
Interface transfer rate (MB/sec) 33.3 MB/sec Ultra DMA mode-2,

16.6 MB/sec PIO mode-4

Seek time

Average (ms) 13
Track-to-track (ms) 2.5
Full-track (ms) 23

Contact IBM

Internet and e-mail:

• www.ibm.com/harddrive

• [e-mail]

IBM TECHFAX fax document server:

• 408-256-5418
(requires touch-tone phone)

• International customers must call from
a fax machine

IBM hard disk drive product information:

• 1 888-IBM-5214 (United States)

• 507-253-4110 (outside of the
United States)

Reliability

Error rate (non-recoverable) <1 per 1.0 E 13 bits transferred
Load/unload cycles 300,000

Power

Requirement +5VDC(±5%)
Dissipation (typical watts)

Startup (max peak) 4.7
Seek (average) 2.3
Read (average) 2.0
Write (average) 2.1
Performance idle (average) 1.85
Active idle (average) 0.85
Low power idle (average) 0.65
Standby (average) 0.25
Sleep 0.1

Power consumption efficiency (watts/MB) 0.00010/0.00014/ 0.00020

Physical size

Height (mm) 9.5
Width (mm) 70
Depth (mm) 100

Weight (g) 99

Environmental characteristics Operating/nonoperating

Ambient temperature 5 to 55° C/-40 to 65° C
Relative humidity (noncondensing) 8% to 90%/5% to 95%

Maximum wet bulb (noncondensing) 29.4° C/40.0° C
Shock (half sine wave) 150 G/2 ms / 700 G/1 ms

Vibration (random [RMS]) 0.67G (5 to 500 Hz)/3.01G (5 to 500 Hz)

(swept sine) 1G 0-P (5 to 500 Hz)/NA

Drive Fitness Test (DFT) Enabled

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