Seagate ST423451N/W/WD Computer Drive User Manual


 
Elite 23 Installation Guide, Rev. A 13
Table 1: Drive characteristics
Interface UltraSCSI
1
Capacity
Unformatted 29.6 Gbytes
Formatted
2
23.4 Gbytes
Recording
Cylinders (user) 6,880
Read/write data heads 28
Servo heads Embedded
Seek time (typical)
3
Average read 13.2 msec
Average write 14.2 msec
Disc rotation
r/min 5,400 +
0.5%
Average latency 5.55 msec
Internal transfer rate 85.9 to 123
(Mbits/sec, variable with zone)
Max sync. SCSI transfer rate
N 20 Mbytes/sec
W/WD 40 Mbytes/sec
Multi-segmented cache 2,048 Kbytes
1
Can also be operated according to SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 proto-
cols.
2
Standard factory units are formatted as follows:
512 data bytes per sector
6 cylinders per region
82 spares per region
3
Not including on-board controller overhead.