Maxtor quickview ata User Manual

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Maxtor QuickView 400/500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive

The QuickView Serial ATA hard disk drive includes the following key features:

General

• Low profile, 1-inch height

• Emulation of IBM

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 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)