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Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. J

5.0

Performance characteristics

5.1

Internal drive characteristics (transparent to user)

* One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment

and formatting.

** Rounded off value.

5.2

SCSI performance characteristics (visible to user)

The values given in Section 5.2.1 apply to all models of the Cheetah 15K.5 SCSI family unless otherwise spec-
ified. Refer to the Parallel SCSI Interface Manual for additional timing details.

ST3300655LW

ST3300655LC

ST3146855LW

ST3146855LC

ST373455LW

ST373455LC

Drive capacity

300.0

146.8

73.4

GBytes (formatted)*

,

**

Read/write heads

8

4

2

Tracks/surface (total)

74,340

74,340

74,340

Tracks (user accessible)

Tracks/inch

125,000

125,000

125,000

TPI

Peak bits/inch

890k

890k

890k

BPI

Areal Density

110

110

110

Gbits/inch

2

Internal data rate

960 to 1607

960 to 1607

960 to 1607

Mbits/sec (variable with zone)

Disc rotational speed

15k

15k

15k

rpm

Average rotational latency

2.0

2.0

2.0

msec