Maxtor Atlas 10K III 6-1

This chapter provides descriptions('#674'of many of￿the&'5%4+26+105features incorporated%JCRVGTin the Maxtor￿￿ Atlas 10K III hard disk drive family.

￿￿￿-';Maxtor￿('#674'5Atlas 10K III disk drives provide unequaled quality and performance. They are designed to improve the performance of high-end workstations, file servers, and storage systems. Among their features are the following:

18.3 GB, 36.7 GB, or 73. GB formatted capacity (512 bytes/block)

MR heads and banded recording for higher overall bit-densities

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

ORCA (Optimized Reordering Command Algorithm) and tagged command queuing for greater throughput

SCAM-2 (SCSI Configured AutoMatically) Auto ID configuration

8 MB Track-oriented segmented cache buffer with prefetch

Automatic Power Management System with power-saving sub-states

10,000 rpm rotational speed yielding 3 ms average latency

. ms/5.0 ms average read/write random seek time for 18.3/36.7/73.4

GB disk drives

• Embedded servo system for exceptional head positioning accuracy and long life

• “Zero latency” reads and writes reduce data access time

• Full SCSI-3 compliance (compatible with SCSI-2 and SCSI-1)

Note: The drives are in compliance with the SCSI-3 draft proposed ANSI

standards as they exist at the time of product release; SCSI-3 features

may1

not be enabled on1

drives when shipped.

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Maxtor 10K III manual Drives when shipped