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Table 1. Drive characteristics

 

Interface

Ultra SCSI [1]

 

Capacity

 

 

Formatted [2]

4.55 Gbyte

 

Unformatted

6.5 Gbyte

 

Recording

 

 

Cylinders (user)

6,311

 

Read/write data heads

8

 

Access time [3]

 

 

Average read

10.1 msec

 

Average write

11.2 msec

 

Disk rotation

 

 

RPM

7,200 r/min

 

Average latency

4.17 msec

 

Internal transfer rate

 

 

(variable with zone)

92–140 Mbits/sec

 

Maximum synchronous SCSI transfer rate

 

N model

20 Mbytes/sec

 

W model

40 Mbytes/sec

 

Multi-segmented cache

480 Kbytes

 

[1]Can also be operated according to SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 protocols. Referred to also as “SCSI Fast-20.”

[2]Standard factory units are formatted 512 data bytes per sector with sparing equivalent to 118 spare sectors per six cylinder region. Spares are located at the end of each sparing region.

[3]Includes controller overhead.

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Seagate ST34555N/W manual Drive characteristics, Rpm

ST34555N/W specifications

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