Spinpoint M8-DVR OEM Product Manual REV 1.0
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DESCRIPTION
2.2 Key Features
Key features of the Spinpoint M8 SATA hard disk drive includes:
Formatted capacities are 320, 500, 750 GB, 1TB
9.5 ± 0.2 mm height form factor
5400 RPM Class
12 ms average seek time
High accuracy rotary voice coil actuator with embedded sector servo
Reliability for 24x7 video applications
Support ATA standard PIO Mode 4/DMA Mode 2/Ultra DMA Mode 5 (UDMA 100)
Serial ATA (SATA) Interface
Supports SATA interface 6.0 Gbps(3.0 Gbps, 1.5 Gbps) speed
Native SATA device without using SATA bridge chip
Support SATA 3.0 and SATA II features
Asynchronous Signal Recovery (ASR)
Pin-11 Device Activity Signal (Activity LED)
Pin-11 Staggered Spin-up Control
Auto-Activate DMA Setup FIS
Native Command Queuing with queue depth of 32 (First Party DMA)
Physical Event Counters
Software Settings Preservation
SATA Device Hot Plug Capability
Device Initiated Power Management
Supports LBA Addressing modes
Supports all logical geometries as programmed by the host
Transparent media defect mapping
High performance in-line defective sector skipping
Auto-reassignment
Automatic error correction and retries
On-the-fly (OTF) error correction
Noise predictive PRML read channel
TA detection and correction
TuMR/PMR head
SMART III support
1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes, 1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes
Accessible capacity may vary as some OS uses binary numbering system for reported capacity.