Table of Contents
1.0. General.....................................................................................................................................1
1.1. Introduction....................................................................................................................... 1
1.2. References......................................................................................................................... 1
1.3. Abbreviations.................................................................................................................... 1
1.4. Caution.............................................................................................................................. 3
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
4.4.1 Command overhead ...............................................................................................16
4.4.3 Drive ready time ....................................................................................................18
4.4.4 Operating modes ....................................................................................................18
5.0. Data integrity.........................................................................................................................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
5.8. ECC................................................................................................................................. 23
6.0. Specification ..........................................................................................................................25
6.1. Environment ................................................................................................................... 25
6.1.2 Corrosion test .........................................................................................................26
6.2. Radiation noise ............................................................................................................... 26
6.3. Conductive noise ............................................................................................................ 27
6.4. Magnetic fields ............................................................................................................... 27
6.6. Reliability ....................................................................................................................... 29
6.6.1 Data integrity .........................................................................................................29
Travelstar 5K100 (Serial ATA) Hard Disk Drive Specification