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Maxtor DiamondMax 22 User Manual

Product Manual

DiamondMax 22 Serial ATA

STM31000334AS

STM3320614AS

STM3160813AS

100544218 Rev. A November 2008

 

 

Revision history

Revision

Date

Sheets affected or comments

Rev. A

11/04/08

Initial release.

Copyright © 2008 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Publication number: 100544218, Rev. A November 2008

Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. DiamondMax, MaxBlast, Maxtor and the Maxtor logo are either trademarks or registered 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 respective owners.

When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer's operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications.

Contents

1.0 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1.1 About the Serial ATA interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2.0 Drive specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

2.1 Formatted capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1.1 LBA mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.2 Default logical geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.3 Recording and interface technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.4 Physical characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.5 Seek time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.6 Start/stop times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.7 Power specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.7.1 Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.7.2 Conducted noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.7.3 Voltage tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.7.4 Power-management modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.8 Environmental specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.8.1 Ambient temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.8.2 Temperature gradient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.8.3 Humidity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.8.4 Altitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.8.5 Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2.8.6 Vibration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.9 Acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.9.1 Test for Prominent Discrete Tones (PDTs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.10 Electromagnetic immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.11 Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.11.1 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) . . . 17 2.12 Agency certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.12.1 Safety certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.12.2 Electromagnetic compatibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.12.3 FCC verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.13 Environmental protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.13.1 European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive . . . . . 19 2.13.2 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.14 Corrosive environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.0 Configuring and mounting the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.2 Configuring the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.4 Drive mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

4.1 Hot-Plug compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4.3 Supported ATA commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.3.1 Identify Device command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.3.2 Set Features command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

5.0 Seagate Technology support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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List of Figures

Figure 1. Typical 5V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Figure 2. Typical 12V startup and operation current profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Figure 3. Serial ATA connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Figure 4. Attaching SATA cabling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Figure 5. Mounting dimensions (1000 GB models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Figure 6. Mounting dimensions (320 and 160 GB models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

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1.0Introduction

This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate DiamondMax® 22 Serial ATA model drives:

STM31000334AS

STM3320614AS

STM3160813AS

These drives provide the following key features:

7,200 RPM spindle speed.

High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 300 Mbytes per second).

Perpendicular recording, Tunneling Magnetoresistive (TMR) recording heads and EPRML technology, for increased areal density.

State-of-the-art cache and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms.

Native Command Queueing with command ordering to increase performance in demanding applications.

Full-track multiple-sector transfer capability without 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.

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1.1About the Serial ATA interface

The Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the traditional (parallel) ATA interface. The primary advantages include:

Easy installation and configuration with true plug-and-play connectivity. It is not necessary to set any jumpers or other configuration options.

Thinner and more flexible cabling for improved enclosure airflow and ease of installation.

Scalability to higher performance levels.

In addition, Serial ATA makes the transition from parallel ATA easy by providing legacy software support. Serial ATA was designed to allow you to install a Serial ATA host adapter and Serial ATA disc drive in your current system and expect all of your existing applications to work as normal.

The Serial ATA interface connects each disc drive in a point-to-point configuration with the Serial ATA host adapter. There is no master/slave relationship with Serial ATA devices like there is with parallel ATA. If two drives are attached on one Serial ATA host adapter, the host operating system views the two devices as if they were both “masters” on two separate ports. This essentially means both drives behave as if they are Device 0 (master) devices.

Note. The host adapter may, optionally, emulate a master/slave environment to host software where two devices on separate Serial ATA ports are represented to host software as a Device 0 (master) and Device 1 (slave) accessed at the same set of host bus addresses. A host adapter that emulates a master/slave environment manages two sets of shadow registers. This is not a typical Serial ATA environment.

The Serial ATA host adapter and drive share the function of emulating parallel ATA device behavior to provide backward compatibility with existing host systems and software. The Command and Control Block registers, PIO and DMA data transfers, resets, and interrupts are all emulated.

The Serial ATA host adapter contains 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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2.0Drive specifications

Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power. For convenience, the phrases the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to indicate the following drive models:

STM31000334AS

STM3320614AS

STM3160813AS

Specification summary tables

The specifications listed in the following tables are for quick reference. For details on specification measurement or definition, see the appropriate section of this manual.

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Table 1:

Drive specifications summary for 1000 Gbyte models

 

 

Drive specification

STM31000334AS

 

 

Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)*

1000 Gbytes

 

 

Guaranteed sectors

1,953,525,168

 

 

 

Heads

 

6

 

 

 

Discs

 

3

 

 

Bytes per sector

512

 

 

Default sectors per track

63

 

 

Default read/write heads

16

 

 

Default cylinders

16,383

 

 

Recording density

1300kbits/in max

 

 

 

Track density

 

182 ktracks/in avg

 

 

 

Areal density

 

228 Gbits/in2 avg

Spindle speed

 

7,200 RPM

 

 

Internal data transfer rate

1520 Mbits/sec max

 

 

Sustained data transfer rate OD

120 Mbytes/sec max

 

 

I/O data-transfer rate

300 Mbytes/sec max

 

 

ATA data-transfer modes supported

PIO modes 0–4

 

 

Multiword DMA modes 0–2

 

 

Ultra DMA modes 0–6

 

 

 

Cache buffer

 

32 Mbytes

 

 

 

Height (max)

 

26.1 mm (1.028 inches)

 

 

 

Width (max)

 

101.6 mm (4.000 inches) +/- 0.010 inches

 

 

 

Length (max)

 

146.99 mm (5.787 inches)

 

 

Weight (typical)

630 grams (1.389 lb.)

 

 

Average latency

4.16 msec

 

 

Power-on to ready

20 sec max

 

 

Standby to ready

15 sec max

 

 

Track-to-track seek time

<0.8 msec typical read;

 

 

<1.0 msec typical write

 

 

Average seek, read

<8.5 msec typical

 

 

Average seek, write

<10.0 msec typical

 

 

Startup current (typical) 12V (peak)

2.8 amps

 

 

Voltage tolerance (including noise)

5V +10% / -7.5%

 

 

12V +10% / -7.5%

Ambient temperature

0° to 60°C per hour max (operating)

 

 

–40° to 70°C per hour max (nonoperating)

 

 

Temperature gradient

20°C per hour max (operating)

 

 

30°C per hour max (nonoperating)

 

 

Relative humidity

5% to 95% (operating)

 

 

5% to 95% (nonoperating)

Relative humidity gradient

30% per hour max

 

 

Wet bulb temperature

37.7°C max (operating)

 

 

40.0°C max (nonoperating)

 

 

Altitude, operating

–60.96 m to 3,048 m

 

 

(–200 ft. to 10,000+ ft.)

Altitude, nonoperating

–60.96 m to 12,192 m

(below mean sea level, max)

(–200 ft. to 40,000+ ft.)

 

 

Operational Shock

70 Gs max at 2 msec

 

 

Non-Operational Shock

300 Gs max at 2 msec

 

 

 

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Drive specification

STM31000334AS

Vibration, operating

2–22 Hz: 0.25 Gs, Limited displacement

 

22–350 Hz: 0.50 Gs

 

350–500 Hz:: 0.25 Gs

 

 

Vibration, nonoperating

5–22 Hz: 2.0 Gs

 

22–350 Hz: 5.0 Gs

 

350–500 Hz:: 2.0 Gs

 

 

Drive acoustics, sound power

 

Idle**

2.5 bels (typical)

 

2.7 bels (max)

Performance Seek

2.9 bels (typical)

Quiet Seek

3.1 bels (max)

 

 

Nonrecoverable read errors

1 per 1014 bits read

Annualized Failure Rate (AFR)

0.34%

 

 

Warranty

To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the following

 

web page: support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp

Contact start-stop cycles

50,000 at 25°C, 50% rel. humidity

 

 

Supports Hotplug operation per the

Yes

Serial ATA Revision 2.5 specification

 

 

 

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

**During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and power to operational levels.

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Table 2:

Drive specifications summary for 320 and 160 Gbyte models

 

 

 

Drive specification

STM3320614AS

STM3160813AS

 

 

 

Formatted capacity (512 bytes/sector)*

320 Gbytes

160 Gbytes

 

 

 

Guaranteed sectors

625,142,448

312,581,808

 

 

 

 

Heads

 

2

1

 

 

 

 

Discs

 

1

 

 

 

 

Bytes per sector

512

 

 

 

 

Default sectors per track

63

 

 

 

 

Default read/write heads

16

 

 

 

 

Default cylinders

16,383

 

 

 

 

Recording density

1250 kbits/in max

 

 

 

 

 

Track density

 

182 ktracks/in avg

 

 

 

 

 

Areal density

 

219 Gbits/in2 avg

 

Spindle speed

 

7,200 RPM

 

 

 

 

Internal data transfer rate

1460 Mbits/sec max

 

 

 

 

Sustained data transfer rate OD

115 Mbytes/sec max

 

 

 

 

I/O data-transfer rate

300 Mbytes/sec max

 

 

 

 

ATA data-transfer modes supported

PIO modes 0–4

 

 

 

Multiword DMA modes 0–2

 

 

 

Ultra DMA modes 0–6

 

 

 

 

 

Cache buffer

 

16 Mbytes

8 Mbytes

 

 

 

 

Height (max)

 

20.17 mm (0.794 inches)

 

 

 

 

 

Width (max)

 

101.6 mm (4.000 inches) +/- 0.010 inches

 

 

 

 

 

Length (max)

 

146.99 mm (5.787 inches)

 

 

 

 

Weight (typical)

405 grams ( 0.893 lb.)

390 grams ( 0.860 lb.)

 

 

 

Average latency

4.16 msec

 

 

 

 

Power-on to ready

9 sec max

 

 

 

 

Standby to ready

9 sec max

 

 

 

 

Track-to-track seek time

<0.8 msec typical read;

 

 

 

<1.0 msec typical write

 

 

 

 

Average seek, read

<11.0 msec typical

 

 

 

 

Average seek, write

<12.0 msec typical

 

 

 

 

Startup current (typical) 12V (peak)

2.0 amps

 

 

 

 

Voltage tolerance (including noise)

5V +/- 5%

 

 

 

12V +/-10%

 

Ambient temperature

0° to 60°C (operating)

 

 

 

–40° to 70°C (nonoperating)

 

 

 

 

Temperature gradient

20°C per hour max (operating)

 

 

 

30°C per hour max (nonoperating)

 

 

 

 

Relative humidity

5% to 95% (operating)

 

 

 

5% to 95% (nonoperating)

 

Relative humidity gradient

30% per hour max

 

 

 

 

Wet bulb temperature

37.7°C max (operating)

 

 

 

40.0°C max (nonoperating)

 

 

 

 

Altitude, operating

–60.96 m to 3,048 m

 

 

 

(–200 ft. to 10,000+ ft.)

 

Altitude, nonoperating

–60.96 m to 12,192 m

 

(below mean sea level, max)

(–200 ft. to 40,000+ ft.)

 

 

 

 

Operational Shock

70 Gs max at 2 msec

 

 

 

 

Non-Operational Shock

350 Gs max at 2 msec

 

 

 

 

 

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Drive specification

STM3320614AS

STM3160813AS

Vibration, operating

2–22 Hz: 0.25 Gs, Limited displacement

 

 

22–350 Hz: 0.50 Gs

 

 

350–500 Hz:: 0.25 Gs

 

 

 

 

Vibration, nonoperating

5–22 Hz: 2.0 Gs

 

 

22–350 Hz: 5.0 Gs

 

 

350–500 Hz:: 2.0 Gs

 

 

 

 

Drive acoustics, sound power

 

 

Idle**

2.3 bels (typical)

 

 

2.5 bels (max)

 

Performance and Quiet Seek

2.6 bels (typical)

 

 

2.8 bels (max)

 

 

 

 

Nonrecoverable read errors

1 per 1014 bits read

 

Annualized Failure Rate (AFR)

0.34%

 

 

 

Warranty

To determine the warranty for a specific drive, use a web browser to access the following

 

web page: support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp

 

 

 

Contact start-stop cycles

50,000 at 25°C, 50% rel. humidity

 

 

 

 

Supports Hotplug operation per the

Yes

 

Serial ATA Revision 2.5 specification

 

 

 

 

 

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

**During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase acoustic and power to operational levels.

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2.1Formatted capacity

Model

Formatted

Guaranteed

Bytes per sector

capacity*

sectors

 

 

 

 

 

 

STM31000334AS

1000 Gbytes

1,953,525,168

512

 

 

 

 

STM3320614AS

320 Gbytes

625,142,448

512

 

 

 

 

STM3160813AS

160 Gbytes

312,581,808

512

 

 

 

 

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

2.1.1LBA 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 48bit addressing support of drives with capacities over 137 Gbytes.

2.2Default logical geometry

Cylinders

Read/write heads

Sectors per track

 

 

 

16,383

16

63

 

 

 

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.

2.3Recording and interface technology

 

1000 GB Model

320 and 160 GB Models

 

 

 

Interface

Serial ATA (SATA)

 

 

 

 

Recording method

Perpendicular

 

 

 

 

Recording density (kbits/inch max)

1300

1250

 

 

 

Track density (ktracks/inch avg)

182

182

 

 

 

Areal density (Gbits/inch2 avg)

228

219

Spindle speed (RPM)

7,200 ± 0.2%

 

 

 

 

Internal data transfer rate (Mbits/sec max)

1520

1460

 

 

 

Sustained data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)

120

115

 

 

 

I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)

300

 

 

 

 

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2.4Physical characteristics

Maximum height (1000 GB models)

26.1 mm (1.028 inches)

 

 

Maximum height (320-160 GB models)

20.17 mm (0.794 inches)

 

 

Maximum width

101.6 mm (4.000 +/- 0.010 inches)

 

 

Maximum length

146.99 mm (5.787 inches)

 

 

 

Typical weight

 

 

1000 GB models

630 grams (1.389 lbs)

320 GB models

405 grams (0.893 lbs)

160 GB models

390 grams (0.860 lbs)

 

 

 

Cache buffer

 

 

STM31000334AS

32

Mbytes (32,768 kbytes)

STM3320614AS

16

Mbytes (16,384 kbytes)

STM3160813AS

8

Mbytes (8,192 kbytes)

 

 

 

2.5Seek time

Seek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times are measured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in the table below are defined as follows:

Track-to-track seek time is an average of all possible single-track seeks in both directions.

Average seek time is a true statistical random average of at least 5,000 measurements of seeks between random tracks, less overhead.

Typical seek times (msec)

Read

Write

 

 

 

Track-to-track (1000, 320 and 160 GB models)

<0.8

<1.0

 

 

 

Average (1000 GB model)

<8.5

<10.0

 

 

 

Average (320 and 160 GB models)

<11.0

<12.0

 

 

 

Average latency:

4.16

 

 

 

 

Note. These drives are designed to consistently meet the seek times represented in this manual. Physical seeks, regardless of mode (such as track-to-track and average), are expected to meet the noted values. However, due to the manner in which these drives are formatted, benchmark tests that include command overhead or measure logical seeks may produce results that vary from these specifications.

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