Seagate U4 ST36421A User Manual
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U4 Family Product Manual, Rev. D
1.3 Recording and interface technology
1.4 Physical characteristics
1.5 Seek time
Seek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient
temperature. All times are measured using drive diagnostics. The spec-
ifications in the table below are defined as follows:
•
Track-to-track seek time is an average of all possible single-track
seeks in both directions.
Interface
ATA
Recording method
16/17 EPRML
Recording density BPI (bits/inch)
241,000
Track density TPI (tracks/inch)
13,100
Areal density (Mbits/inch
2
max)
3,179
Spindle speed (RPM) (
±
0.2%)
5,400
Internal data-transfer rate
(Mbits/sec max)
206
I/O data-transfer rate
(Mbytes /sec max)
16.6 (PIO mode 4)
66.6 (Ultra DMA mode 4)
Interleave
1:1
Cache buffer (Kbytes)
256
Drive Specification
ST38421A, ST36421A,
ST34311A, ST32112A
Maximum height
(mm)
(inches)
26.1
1.028
Maximum width
(mm)
(inches)
101.8
4.020
Maximum length
(mm)
(inches)
147.0
5.78
Typical weight
(grams)
(pounds)
580
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