Samsung M8 manual Key Features

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2.2Key Features

Key features of the Spinpoint M8 SATA hard disk drive includes:

Formatted capacities are 250, 320, 500, 640, 750 GB, 1TB

9.5 ± 0.2 mm height form factor

5400 RPM Class

12 ms average seek time

High accuracy rotary voice coil actuator with embedded sector servo

Support ATA standard PIO Mode 4/DMA Mode 2/Ultra DMA Mode 5 (UDMA 100)

Serial ATA (SATA) Interface

Supports SATA interface 3.0 Gbps (1.5 Gbps) speed

Native SATA device without using SATA bridge chip

Support SATA 3.0 and SATA II features

Asynchronous Signal Recovery (ASR)

Pin-11 Device Activity Signal (Activity LED)

Pin-11 Staggered Spin-up Control

Auto-Activate DMA Setup FIS

Native Command Queuing with queue depth of 32 (First Party DMA)

Physical Event Counters

Software Settings Preservation

SATA Device Hot Plug Capability

Device Initiated Power Management

Supports LBA Addressing modes

Supports all logical geometries as programmed by the host

Transparent media defect mapping

High performance in-line defective sector skipping

Auto-reassignment

Automatic error correction and retries

On-the-fly (OTF) error correction

Noise predictive PRML read channel

TA detection and correction

TuMR/PMR head

SMART III support

1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes, 1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes

Accessible capacity may vary as some OS uses binary numbering system for reported capacity.

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