Product Description - Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 2500 Reference Manual

Product Description

Maxtor DiamondMax™ Plus 2500 AT disk drives are 1-inch high, 3.5-inch diameter random access storage
devices which incorporate an on-board ATA/Ultra DMA controller. High capacity is achieved by a balanced
combination of high areal recording density and the latest data encoding and servo techniques.
Maxtor's latest advancements in electronic packaging and integration methods have lowered the drive's power
consumption and increased its reliability. Advanced magneto-resistive read/write heads, an state-of-the-art head/
disk assembly using an integrated motor/spindle design allow up to four disks in a 3.5-inch package.
Exceptionally high data transfer rates and 9.0 ms access times make these performance series disk drives especially
well-suited to high speed desktop and server applications.
DiamondMax Plus 2500 Key Features
ANSI ATA-4 compliant PIO Mode 4 interface (Enhanced IDE)
Supports Ultra DMA Mode 2 for up to 33 MB/sec data transfers
512 KB buffer with multi-adaptive cache manager
9.0 ms seek time
Zone density and I.D.-less recording
High reliability with
Outstanding shock resistance at 200 Gs
High durability with 50 K constant start/stop cycles
Advanced multi-burst on-the-fly Error Correction Code (ECC)
Extended data integrity with ECC protected data and fault tolerant servo synchronization fields
Supports EPA Energy Star Standards (Green PC Friendly) with ATA powering savings commands
Auto park and lock actuator mechanism
Low power consumption
S.M.A.R.T. Capability
Note: Maxtor defines one megabyte as 10
500,000 hour MTBF
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or one million bytes (1,000,000) and one gigabyte as 10
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