Chapter 6

FEATURE DESCRIPTIONS

This chapter provides descriptions of many of the features incorporated in the Maxtor Atlas 10K V hard disk drive family.

6.1KEY FEATURES

Maxtor Atlas 10K V 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:

73.5, 147.1 GB, or 300 GB formatted capacity (512 bytes to 524 bytes/ block selectable in increments of 2 bytes)

GMR heads and banded recording for higher overall bit-densities

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

Optimized Reordering Command Algorithm and tagged command queuing for greater throughput

8 MB segmented cache buffer ECC protected

10,000 rpm rotational speed yielding 3 ms average latency

4.0 ms / 4.5 ms average read/write seek time for the 73.5 GB disk drives, 4.2 ms / 4.7 ms average read/write seek time for the 147.1 GB disk drives; and 4.4 ms / 4.9 ms average read/write seek time for the 300 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 compliance1 (compatible with SCSI-2 and SCSI-1)

Variable BPI

Just-in Time Seeks

Read/Write Ahead

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