Performance

Average seek time of 4.0 ms (1D) , 4.2 (2D) and 4.4 (4D) for reads

Average seek time of 4.5 ms (1D), 4.7 (2D), and 4.9 ms (4D) for writes

10,000 RPM rotational speed

Average rotational latency of 3 ms

8 MB CACHE (ECC Protected) buffer. Look-ahead DisCache feature with continuous prefetch and WriteCache write-buffering capabilities

Read-on-arrival firmware

Tagged Command Queuing with Reordering

ECC on-the-fly

Highly automated SCSI protocol (including Auto Read/Write)

1:1 interleave on read/write operations

High performance Ultra320 SCSI interface

SCSI-2, and SCSI-3 supported

Ultra 320 SCSI

Ultra 160 SCSI

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

Burst 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

2-2 Maxtor Atlas 10K V