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Medalist Pro 6450/5040 Product Manual, February 1997
Quick specification chart
The following table serves as a quick reference for the drives' perform-
ance specifications. These and other specifications are discussed in
"Specifications" on page 5.
Drive specification
Guaranteed capacity (Gbytes) ( 10
Guaranteed sectors
Bytes per sector
Sectors per track
Logical read/write heads
Logical cylinders
Physical cylinders
Physical read/write heads
Physical discs
Areal density (Mbits per square inch)
Data zones
Recording density (bits per inch)
Track density (tracks per inch)
Spindle speed (RPM)
Track-to-track seek time (msec typical)
Average read seek time (msec typical)
Average write seek time (msec typical)
Full-stroke seek time (msec typical)
Average latency (msec)
Internal data-transfer rate
(Mbits per sec max)
External transfer rate (Mbytes per sec max)
Cache buffer (Kbytes)
ECC on-the-fly (bits)
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ST36450A ST35040A
9
bytes) 6.5
5.0
12,594,960 9,782,640
512
512
63
63
15
15
13,328
10,352
6,536
6,536
10
8
5
4
928.8
928.8
19
19
138,011
138,011
6,730
6,730
5,397
5,397
2.0
2.0
9.5
9.5
10.0
10.0
20
20
5.58
5.58
63 to 116
63 to 116
16.6
16.6
512
512
65
65
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