Barracuda 4 Installation Guide, Rev. E

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Characteristics of ST15150 drives

 

 

 

N/ND

W/WD/WC/DC

SCSI-2 Interface1

Fast

Fast & Wide

Capacity

 

 

 

Unformatted

5,062 Mbytes

5,062 Mbytes

Formatted2

4,294 Mbytes

4,294 Mbytes

Recording

 

 

 

Cylinders (user accessible)

3,711

3,711

 

Read/Write heads

21

21

 

Servo heads

1

1

 

Avg bytes/track

64,160

64,160

 

Modulation

RLL 1,7 code

RLL 1,7 code

Synchronous SCSI rate

 

 

 

Max burst transfer

10 Mbytes/sec

20 Mbytes/sec

Seek time3

 

 

 

Average read

8.0 msec

8.0 msec

Average write

9.0 msec

9.0 msec

Disc rotation

 

 

 

RPM

7,200

7,200

 

Average latency

4.17 msec

4.17 msec

Multi-segmented cache

 

 

 

Physical

1,024 Kbytes

1,024 Kbytes

Available to user

977 Kbytes

977 Kbytes

1Can also be operated according to SCSI-1 protocol.

2Standard factory units are formatted as follows:

512data bytes per sector

9spare sectors per cylinder

1cylinder at the inner track reserved for spares

3Not including on-board controller overhead.

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Seagate ST15150N/ND/DC, ST15150W/WD/WC manual Wd/Wc/Dc