Spinpoint M8U-Internal Product Manual REV 3.4
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DESCRIPTION
2.2 Key Features
Key features of the Spinpoint M8U hard disk drive includes:
• Formatted capacities are 320, 500, 750 GB, 1TB
• 9.5 ± 0.2 mm height form factor
• 5400 RPM Class
• 12 ms average seek time
• High accuracy rotary voice coil actuator with embedded sector servo
• Universal Serial Bus (USB) Interface (Supports USB 2.0 speed)
• Supports LBA Addressing modes
• Supports all logical geometries as programmed by the host
• 8MB buffer memory for read and write cache.
• Transparent media defect mapping
• High performance in-line defective sector skipping
• Auto-reassignment
• Automatic error correction and retries
• On-the-fly (OTF) error correction
• Noise predictive PRML read channel
• TA detection and correction
• TuMR/PMR head
• SMART III support
• 1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes, 1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes
Accessible capacity may vary as some OS uses binary numbering system for reported capacity