DESCRIPTION

2.2Key Features

Key features of the Spinpoint M9T SATA hard disk drive includes:

Formatted capacities are 1.5TB and 2TB

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

Support ATA standard PIO Mode 4/DMA Mode 2/Ultra DMA Mode 7

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 3.1 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)

Phy 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.

Spinpoint M9T Product Manual REV 1.0

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Samsung M9T manual Key Features