Hitachi HTS541010G9AT00 - Travelstar 100 GB Hard... User manual

Hard Disk Drive Specification
Travelstar 5K100
2.5 inch Serial ATA hard disk drive
Models:
HTS541010G9SA00
HTS541080G9SA00
HTS541060G9SA00
HTS541040G9SA00
HTS541020G9SA00
Version 1.2 11 July 2006

Hard Disk Drive Specification
Travelstar 5K100
2.5 inch Serial ATA hard disk drive
Models:
HTS541010G9SA00
HTS541080G9SA00
HTS541060G9SA00
HTS541040G9SA00
HTS541020G9SA00
Version 1.2 11 July 2006

1st Edition (Revision 1.0) (16 November 2004) Revision
2nd Edition (Revision 1.1) (23 December 2004) Revision
3rd Edition (Revision 1.2)(11 July 2006) Final
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Travelstar 5K100 (Serial ATA) Hard Disk Drive Specification
Table of Contents
1.0. General.....................................................................................................................................1
1.1. Introduction....................................................................................................................... 1
1.2. References......................................................................................................................... 1
1.3. Abbreviations.................................................................................................................... 1
1.4. Caution.............................................................................................................................. 3
2.0. General features of the drive .................................................................................................5
3.0. Fixed-disk subsystem description..........................................................................................9
3.1. Control electronics............................................................................................................ 9
3.2. Head disk assembly ......................................................................................................... 9
4.0. Drive characteristics.............................................................................................................11
4.1. Formatted capacity.......................................................................................................... 11
4.2. Data sheet........................................................................................................................ 12
4.3. Drive organization.......................................................................................................... 13
4.3.1 Drive format ..........................................................................................................13
4.3.2 Cylinder allocation ................................................................................................14
4.4. Performance characteristics............................................................................................ 16
4.4.1 Command overhead ...............................................................................................16
4.4.2 Mechanical positioning .........................................................................................16
4.4.3 Drive ready time ....................................................................................................18
4.4.4 Operating modes ....................................................................................................18
5.0. Data integrity.........................................................................................................................21
5.1. Data loss at power off..................................................................................................... 21
5.2. Write Cache.................................................................................................................... 21
5.3. Equipment status............................................................................................................. 21
5.4. WRITE safety................................................................................................................. 22
5.5. Data buffer test ............................................................................................................... 22
5.6. Error recovery................................................................................................................. 22
5.7. Automatic reallocation.................................................................................................... 22
5.7.1 Nonrecovered write errors .....................................................................................22
5.7.2 Nonrecoverable read error .....................................................................................22
5.7.3 Recovered read errors ............................................................................................22
5.8. ECC................................................................................................................................. 23
6.0. Specification ..........................................................................................................................25
6.1. Environment ................................................................................................................... 25
6.1.1 Temperature and humidity ....................................................................................25
6.1.2 Corrosion test .........................................................................................................26
6.2. Radiation noise ............................................................................................................... 26
6.3. Conductive noise ............................................................................................................ 27
6.4. Magnetic fields ............................................................................................................... 27
6.5. DC power requirements.................................................................................................. 27
6.5.1 Power consumption efficiency ..............................................................................28
6.6. Reliability ....................................................................................................................... 29
6.6.1 Data integrity .........................................................................................................29