Mass storage

The hard disk drive can be removed by the user for easy upgrades. The hard drive

 

 

is located on the bottom case and with the removal of one screw the hard drive can

 

 

be replaced.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hard drive manufacturer: IBM® and Toshiba (subject to change without notice).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.5" Hard Drive

540MB

810 MB

810 MB

1,215MB

 

 

AT Interface RLL

ATA2 Interface

ATA2 Interface

ATA2 Interface

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HDD (Toshiba)

HDD (Toshiba)

HDD (IBM)

HDD (IBM)

 

 

Note: VL models

 

Note: Current plan

Note: Currently

 

 

 

shipping 11/95

 

is to dual source

the 1.2GB drive is

 

 

 

will have the

 

the 810MB hard

sole sourced from

 

 

 

540MB option

 

drive, currently the

IBM.

 

 

 

 

 

Toshiba 810 is the

 

 

 

 

 

 

major supplier

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average seek

12 ms

12 ms

12 ms

12 ms

 

(read)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Track to track seek

3 ms

3 ms

4 ms

4 ms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Full Track

NA

25 ms

23 ms

23 ms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average latency

7.5 ms

7.1 ms

6.1 ms

6.1 ms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rotational speed

4000 rev/m

4200 rev/m

4900 rev/m

4900 rev/m

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data transfer rate:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Media Transfer

18.9-31.6

43.75 Mbits/sec

36.3 (inner), 57.0

36.3 (inner), 57.0

 

rate

Mbits/sec

(max.)

(Outer) Mbits/sec

(Outer) Mbits/sec

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buffer to host

6 Mbytes/sec

11.1Mbytes/sec

11.1Mbytes/sec

11.1Mbytes/sec

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buffer size

128 Kbytes static

128Kbytes static

64KB (read and

64KB (read and

 

 

RAM

RAM

write segmented

write segmented

 

 

 

 

 

buffer)

buffer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spindle start time

5 sec (typical)

5 sec (typical)

NA

NA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reliability:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MTBF: Power-on

300,000 hours

300,000 hours

300,000 hours

300,000 hours

 

Hours

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrecoverable

1 in 1013 (bits)

1 in 1013 (bits)

1/1.0E 13 bits

1/1.0E 13 bits

 

errors

 

 

transfer

transfer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configuration:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.5" Hard Drive

540MB

810 MB

810 MB

1,215MB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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