Performance Characteristics; Internal Drive Characteristics; Format Command Execution Time (Minutes) - Seagate ST2400MM0129 Product Manual

4.0

Performance characteristics

This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Seagate Enterprise
Performance 10K HDD drives.
4.1

Internal drive characteristics

2400GB
Sector size 4KN or 512E
Drive capacity 2.4TB
Read/write data heads 8
Bytes per track 1261
Bytes per surface 300,016
Tracks per surface (total) 249
Tracks per inch 342
Peak bits per inch 2460
Areal density 841
Disk rotation speed 10.5K
Avg rotational latency 2.9
4.2 Performance characteristics
4.2.1

Format command execution time (minutes)

Maximum (with verify)
Maximum (without verify)
Execution time measured from receipt of the last byte of the Command Descriptor Block (CDB) to the request for a Status Byte
Transfer to the Initiator (excluding connect/disconnect).
When changing sector sizes, the format times shown above may need to be increased by 30 minutes.
Seagate Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v9 Product Manual, Rev. D (Draft 2)
1800GB
4KN or 512E 4KN or 512E / 512N
1.8TB
6
1261
300,016
249
342
2460
841
10.5K
2.9
2400GB models 1800GB models
320
420
160
210
1200GB 600GB
4KN or 512E / 512N
1.2TB 0.6TB
4 2
1261 / 1168 1261 / 1168
300,016 300,016
249 249
342 / 369 342 / 369
2460 2460
841 / 908 841 / 908
10.5K 10.5K
2.9 2.9
1200GB models
220
110
Models
GB (formatted, rounded off value)
Kbytes (avg, rounded off values)
MB (unformatted, rounded off value)
Ktracks (user accessible, rounded off values)
KTPI (avg, rounded off values)
Kb/in
Gb/in2
rpm
ms
600GB models
120
60
15