General Description - Seagate SAVVIO 10K.5 FC ST9300605FC Product Manual

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General description

Savvio 10K.5 FC drives provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems including
engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. Savvio 10K.5 FC drives support
4-Gb Fibre Channel which can transfer data at up to 800MBs per second and 1600MBs per second in dual-
loop configurations.
Savvio 10K.5 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol
as described in the ANSI specifications, this document, and the Fibre Channel Interface Manual which
describes the general interface characteristics of this drive. Savvio 10K.5 FC drives are classified as intelligent
peripherals and provide level 2 conformance (highest level) with the ANSI SCSI-1 standard.
Note.
Never disassemble the HDA and do not attempt to service items in the sealed enclosure (heads, media, actuator,
etc.) as this requires special facilities. The drive does not contain user-replaceable parts. Opening the HDA for any
reason voids your warranty.
Savvio drives use a dedicated load/unload zone at the outermost radius of the media to eliminate the possibil-
ity of destroying or degrading data by landing in the data zone. The heads automatically go to the ramp load/
unload when power is removed from the drive.
An automatic shipping lock prevents potential damage to the heads and disks that results from movement dur-
ing shipping and handling. The shipping lock disengages and the head load process begins when power is
applied to the drive.
The drives also use a high-performance actuator assembly with a low-inertia, balanced, patented, straight arm
design that provides excellent performance with minimal power dissipation.
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