Maxtor ATLAS 10K IV User Manual page 26

General Description
Performance
• Average seek time of 4.3 ms (1/2 D) and 4.4 (4D) for reads
• Average seek time of 4.8 ms (1/2 D) and 4.9 ms (4D) for writes
• 10,000 RPM rotational speed
• Average rotational latency of 3 ms
• 8 MB SDRAM buffer. Look-ahead DisCache feature with continuous
prefetch and WriteCache write-buffering capabilities
• Read-on-arrival firmware
• Tagged Command Queuing with Reordering (ORCA™)
• ECC on-the-fly
• Highly automated SCSI protocol (including Auto Read/Write)
• 1:1 interleave on read/write operations
• High performance Ultra320 SCSI interface
• SCSI-2, and SCSI-3 supported
• Ultra 160 SCSI
• Ultra-2 SCSI-3 LVDS transfer rates supported
• Fast Ultra and Ultra-2 SCSI transfer rates supported (SCSI-3 compliant)
• S.M.A.R.T. 2 (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
• SCSI bus active negation drivers
• SCAM Level 2
• Burst data transfer rate of up to 6.0 MB/s asynchronous, 40 MB/s Ultra
SCSI, 80 MB/s Ultra2 SCSI, 160 MB/s Ultra160 SCSI, and 320 MB/s
Ultra320 SCSI.
• SCSI bus fairness
• Ultra 320 Performance Enhancements
~ Maxadapt: Adaptive Active Filter (AAF)
~ Double Transition (DT) Data Transfers
~ Free Running Clock (FRC)
~ Skew Compensation
~ Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
~ Domain Validation
~ Information Unit (IU) Transfers
~ Transmitter Pre-Compensation with Cutback (as option)
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