SECTION 3

Product Specifications

Models and Capacities

MODEL

 

91741U4

91301U3

90871U2

90431U1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Formatted Capacity (MB LBA Mode)

 

17,410

13,010

8,700

4,343

Maxtor defines one megabyte as 106 or one million bytes and one

 

gigabyte as 109 or one billion bytes.

 

 

 

 

Drive Configuration

MODEL

91741U4

 

91301U3

 

90871U2

90431U1

 

 

 

 

 

Integrated Controller / Interface

ATA-5 / Ultra DMA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Encoding Method

EPR4 RLL 16/17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interleave

 

1:1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Servo System

 

 

Embedded

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buffer Size / Type

512 KB SDRAM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data Zones per Surface

 

16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data Surfaces / Heads

4

 

3

 

2

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number of Disks

2

 

2

 

1

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Areal Density

 

6,408 Mb / in2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Track Density

 

 

19,300 tpi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recording Density

 

278 - 332 kbpi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flux Density

 

295 - 353 kfci

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bytes per Sector / Block

 

512

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sectors per Drive

34,004,880

 

25,410,672

 

16,992,864

8,483,328

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Performance Specifications

MODEL

91741U4

 

91301U3

 

90871U2

90431U1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seek Times (ty p ic al)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Track-to-Track

 

 

1.0 ms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average

 

 

9.5 ms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maximum

 

 

< 20.0 ms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average Latency

 

 

5.55 ms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rotational Speed (± 0 .1 % )

 

 

5,400 RPM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Controller Overhead

 

 

< 0.3 ms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Data Transfer Rate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To/From Interface

up to 66.7 MB/sec

 

(U ltraD M A - M 4 )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To/From Interface

up to 16.7 MB/sec

 

(P IO 4 /M u lti-w o rd D M A - M 4 )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To/From Media

up to 34.2 MB/sec

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Start Time (0 to D riv e R e ad y )

 

7.3 sec typical

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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