Seagate ST3600057FC manual Media description, Performance, Reliability, Formatted capacities

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3.2Media description

The media used on the drive has an aluminum substrate coated with a thin film magnetic material, overcoated with a proprietary protective layer for improved durability and environmental protection.

3.3Performance

•Programmable multi-segmentable cache buffer

•400 Mbytes/sec maximum instantaneous data transfers per port

•15k RPM spindle; average latency = 2.0 msec

•Command queuing of up to 128 commands

•Background processing of queue

•Supports start and stop commands (spindle stops spinning)

•Adaptive seek velocity; improved seek performance

Note. There is no significant performance difference between Self-Encrypting Drive and standard (non- Self-Encrypting Drive) models

3.4Reliability

•Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) of 0.55%

•Increased LSI circuitry integration

•Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)

•Dithering

•5-year warranty

3.5Formatted capacities

Standard OEM models are formatted to 512 bytes per block. The block size is selectable at format time and must be one of the supported sizes listed in the table below.

Seagate designs specify capacity points at certain block sizes that Seagate guarantees current and future products will meet. We recommend customers use this capacity in their project planning, as it ensures a stable operating point with backward and forward compatibility from generation to generation. The current guaranteed operating points for this product are:

	ST3600057FC		ST3450857FC		ST3300657FC
	ST3600957FC		ST3450757FC		ST3300557FC
Sector Size	Decimal	Hex	Decimal	Hex	Decimal	Hex
512	1,172,123,568	45DD2FB0	879,097,968	3465F870	585,937,500	22ECB25C
520	1,147,307,694	446286AE	860,480,771	3349E503	573,653,848	22314358
524	1,132,015,600	43792FF0	849,011,700	329AE3F4	566,007,800	21BC97F8
528	1,115,749,560	4280FCB8	836,812,167	31E0BD87	557,874,778	21407E5A

Seagate drives also may be used at the maximum available capacity at a given block size, but the excess capacity above the guaranteed level will vary between other drive families and from generation to generation, depending on how each block size actually formats out for zone frequencies and splits over servo bursts. This added capacity potential may range from 0.1 to 1.3 percent above the guaranteed capacities listed above. Using the drives in this manner gives the absolute maximum capacity potential, but the user must determine if

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