General Description

Performance

Average seek time of 4.5 ms for reads and 5.0 ms for writes

10,000 RPM rotational speed

Average rotational latency of 3 ms

8 MB SDRAM buffer. Look-ahead DisCache feature with continuous prefetch and WriteCache write-buffering capabilities

Read-on-arrival firmware

Tagged Command Queuing with Reordering (ORCA™)

ECC on-the-fly

Highly automated SCSI protocol (including Auto Read/Write)

1:1 interleave on read/write operations

High performance Ultra160 SCSI or Ultra320 SCSI interface

SCSI-2, and SCSI-3 supported

Ultra-2 SCSI-3 LVDS transfer rates supported

Fast Ultra and Ultra-2 SCSI transfer rates supported (SCSI-3 compliant)

S.M.A.R.T. 2 (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)

SCSI bus active negation drivers

SCAM Level 2

Data transfer rate of up to 6.0 MB/s asynchronous, 40 MB/s Ultra SCSI, 80 MB/s Ultra2 SCSI, 160 MB/s Ultra160 SCSI, and 320 MB/s Ultra320 SCSI.

SCSI bus fairness

Ultra 320 Performance Enhancements

~Adaptive Active Filter (AAF)

~Transmitter Pre-Compensation with Cutback

~Double Transition (DT) Data Transfers

~Free Running Clock (FRC)

~Skew Compensation

~Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)

~Domain Validation

~Information Unit (IU) Transfers

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Maxtor 10K III manual General Description