Appendix A - Technical Specifications
Mass Storage Specifications
Hard Disk Drive
The hard disk drive can be removed by the user for easy upgrades.
Hard drive manufacturers are subject to change without notice.
Table 24 - Hard Disk Drive Specifications
810-million-byte
Manufacturer
Toshiba
Interface
ATA2
Recording
PRML (Partial
Method
Response
Maximum
likelihood)
Heads
Peak Detect
Average access
13 ms
(read)
Track to track
3 ms
seek
Full Track
25 ms
Average latency
7.14 ms
Rotational speed 4200 rev/m
Media Transfer
24.7 (inner), 44.9
rate
(Outer) Mbits/sec
Buffer to host
16.6 Mbytes/sec
Buffer size
128KB (read and
write segmented
buffer)
Spindle start time 5 sec (typical)
Reliability:
MTBF: Power-
300,000 hours
on Hours
Unrecoverable
1.0E-13 bits
errors
transfer
Configuration:
Sector Size
512 Bytes
User Cylinders 2,920
Data Heads
6
Disks
3
1.35-billion-byte 1.44-billion-
byte
Toshiba
Toshiba
ATA2
ATA2 /ATA3
PRML (Partial
PRML (Partial
Response
Response
Maximum
Maximum
likelihood)
likelihood)
MR (Magneto
MR (Magneto
Resistive)
Resistive)
13 ms
13 ms
3 ms
3 ms
25 ms
25 ms
7.14 ms
7.14 ms
4200 rev/m
4200 rev/m
38.1 (inner), 54.8
38.6 (inner),
(Outer) Mbits/sec
69.8 (Outer)
Mbits/sec
16.6 Mbytes/sec
16.6 Mbytes/sec 16.6 Mbytes/sec 16.6
128KB (read and
128KB (read
write segmented
and write
buffer)
segmented
buffer)
5 sec (typical)
5 sec (typical)
300,000 hours
300,000 hours
1.0E-13 bits
1.0E-13 bits
transfer
transfer
512 Bytes
512 Bytes
3,650
5,160
6
4
3
2
2.1-billion-byte 3.1-billion-
byte
Toshiba
Toshiba
ATA2 /ATA3
ATA2 /ATA3
PRML (Partial
PRML (Partial
Response
Response
Maximum
Maximum
likelihood)
likelihood)
MR (Magneto
MR (Magneto
Resistive)
Resistive)
13 ms
13 ms
3 ms
3 ms
25 ms
25 ms
7.4 ms
6.18 ms
4200 rev/m
4852 rev/m
38.6 (inner),
43.8 (inner),
69.8 (Outer)
68.9 (Outer)
Mbits/sec
Mbits/sec
Mbytes/sec
128KB (read
128KB (read
and write
and write
segmented
segmented
buffer)
buffer)
5 sec (typical)
5 sec (typical)
300,000 hours
300,000 hours
1.0E-13 bits
1.0E-13 bits
transfer
transfer
512 Bytes
512 Bytes
5,160
5,020
6
10
3
5
95