Table Of Contents - Seagate Elite 9 Product Manual

1.0 Scope .................................................................................................................................
2.0 Applicable standard and reference documentation .......................................................
2.1 Standards .....................................................................................................................
2.2 Applicable reference documents ...................................................................................
3.0 General description ...........................................................................................................
4.0 Standard features ..............................................................................................................
4.1 Performance .................................................................................................................
4.1.1 Reliability .............................................................................................................
4.2 Unformatted and formatted capacities ..........................................................................
4.3 Options .........................................................................................................................
4.4 Installation .....................................................................................................................
5.0 Performance-related characteristics and features ......................................................... 11
5.1 Internal drive characteristics ......................................................................................... 11
5.2 SCSI seek performance characteristics ........................................................................ 11
5.2.1 Seek time ............................................................................................................ 12
5.2.2 Format drive command execution time ................................................................ 12
5.3 General performance characteristics ............................................................................ 13
5.4 Start/stop time ............................................................................................................... 13
5.5 Prefetch/multi-segmented cache control ....................................................................... 14
5.5.1 Adaptive read lookahead ..................................................................................... 15
5.6 Caching write data ........................................................................................................ 15
5.7 Synchronized spindle operation .................................................................................... 16
6.0 Reliability specifications ................................................................................................... 19
6.1 Error rates ..................................................................................................................... 19
6.1.1 Environmental interference.................................................................................. 19
6.1.2 Write errors ......................................................................................................... 19
6.1.3 Seek errors ......................................................................................................... 20
6.2 Reliability and service ................................................................................................... 20
6.2.1 Mean time between failures (MTBF).................................................................... 20
6.2.2 Air flow ................................................................................................................ 20
6.2.3 Preventive maintenance ...................................................................................... 23
6.2.4 Service life........................................................................................................... 23
6.2.5 Service philosophy .............................................................................................. 23
6.2.6 Installation ........................................................................................................... 23
6.2.7 Service tools........................................................................................................ 23
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