2.4Physical organization

Drive model

Read/write heads

Number of discs

 

 

 

ST9120821AS

4

2

 

 

 

ST9100824AS

4

2

 

 

 

ST98823AS

3

2

 

 

 

ST96812AS

2

1

 

 

 

ST94813AS

2

1

 

 

 

ST93811AS

1

1

 

 

 

2.5Recording and interface technology

Interface

Serial ATA (SATA)

 

 

Recording method

16/17 EPRML

 

 

Recording density BPI (bits/inch max)

778k

 

 

Track density TPI (tracks/inch max)

126k

 

 

Areal density (Mbits/inch2 max)

98.2

Spindle speed (RPM) (± 0.2%)

5,400

 

 

Maximum Internal transfer rate (Mbytes/sec)

42

 

 

I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max)

150 (SATA 1.0)

 

 

Interleave

1:1

 

 

Cache buffer

8 Mbytes (8,192 kbytes)

 

 

2.6Physical characteristics

Drive specification

 

 

 

 

 

 

Height

(mm)

9.5 +/-0.2

 

(inches)

0.374

+/-0.0078

 

 

 

 

Width

(mm)

69.85

+/-0.25

 

(inches)

2.75

+/-0.0098

 

 

 

 

Length

(mm)

100.5

+/-1.6

 

(inches)

3.945

+/-0.0098

 

 

 

 

Typical weight

(grams)

100

 

 

(pounds)

0.22

 

 

 

 

 

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