5.0Performance characteristics

This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Pul- sar XT.2 drives.

Note. Data provided is based on format at 512-bytes.

5.1Internal drive characteristics

 

ST400FX0002

ST200FX0002

ST100FX0002

 

ST400FX0012

 

 

 

Drive capacity

400

200

100

GB (formatted, rounded off value)

Flash Memory Type

NAND SLC

 

 

 

Emulated LBA Size

512, 520, 524, 528, 4096, 4160, 4192, or 4224

 

Native Programmable Page Size

4096 User Bytes

 

 

 

Default Transfer Alignment Offset

0

 

 

 

5.2Performance characteristics

See Section 11.4.1, "SAS physical interface" and the SAS Interface Manual (part number 100293071) for addi- tional timing details.

5.2.1Access time

Access measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times are measured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in the table below are defined as follows:

Page-to-page access time is an average of all possible page-to-page accesses in both directions for a sequentially preconditioned drive.

Average access time is a true statistical random average of at least 5000 measurements of accesses between programmable pages on a randomly preconditioned drive.

Table 4: Typical Access Time (µsec)

 

 

 

400GB 1,2

100/200 GB1,2

 

 

Read

 

Write

Read

Write

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average

 

268

 

133

208

121

 

Typical 3

 

 

 

 

 

Page to Page

268

 

133

207

121

Average Latency

 

247

 

 

188

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.Execution time measured from receipt of the Command to the Response.

2.Assumes no errors.

3.Typical access times are measured under nominal conditions of temperature, voltage, and horizontal orientation as measured on a representative sample of drives.

Note. These drives are designed to provide the highest possible performance under typical conditions. However, due to the nature of Flash memory technologies there are many factors that can result in values different than those stated in this specification

2.

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Seagate ST400FX0002 Performance characteristics, Internal drive characteristics, Access time, Typical Access Time µsec