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2-2 Maxtor QuickView 400/500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive
2.2 KEY FEATURES
The QuickView Serial ATA hard disk drive includes the following key features:
General
• Low profile, 1-inch height
• Emulation of IBM
®
PC AT
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task file register, and all AT fixed disk commands
• Windows NT2000, XP, Server, and Media Center Edition certification
• Thin cables for easy routing and improved cooling
• 1 meter cable length for increased design and layout flexibility
• Connectors designed for blind mate and hot plug
• Reduced pin count to enable RAID scalability
• Point-to-Point host to device connection
•Low voltages
• Interface power control features
• Easy installation/configuration (plug/play,no jumpers, no external terminators)
• Command optimization
• Native Command Queuing using First Party DMA
Performance
• Average seek time of <12 ms
• 300MB/s interface data transfer rate
• Average rotational latency of 4.17 ms
• Serial ATA interface with transfer speeds up to 300MB per second
•16MB Cache buffer
• Look-ahead DisCache feature with continuous prefetch and WriteCache
write-buffering capabilities
• AutoTask Register update, Multi-block AutoRead, and Multi-block
AutoWrite features in a custom ASIC
• Read-on-arrival firmware
• Quadruple-burst ECC, and double burst ECC on-the-fly
• 1:1 interleave on read/write operations
• Adaptive cache segmentation
• 100% FDB (Fluid Dynamic Bearing Motors)