Product manual

General Description
2-2 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus8 20/30/40GB AT
2.2 KEY FEATURES
The DiamondMax Plus 8 20/30/40GB AT hard disk drives include the following key
features:
General
• Formatted storage capacity of 20.0, 30.0 and 40.0 GB
• Low profile, 17 mm high
• 7200 RPM spin speed
• Industry standard 3 1/2-inch form factor
• Emulation of IBM
®
PC AT
®
task file register, and all AT fixed disk commands
• Windows NT and 9X Certification
Performance
• 10.0 ms seek time
• Average rotational latency of 4.17ms
• New Ultra ATA interface with Maxtor-patented Ultra ATA/133 protocol
supporting burst data transfer rates of 133MB/s.
• 2 MB buffer with 1.9MB (approximate) Advance Cache Management (ACM).
• Advanced Multi-burst ECC on-the-fly
• Support of all standard ATA data transfer modes with PIO mode 4 and
multiword DMA mode 2, and Ultra DMA modes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
Reliability
• 57 Byte Reed-Soloman ECC with up to 54 Byte correction capability.
• S.M.A.R.T. 4 (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
• Auto Park and Lock actuator mechanism
• Transparent media defect mapping
• High durability with 100,000 cycles for reliable load/unload function
• High performance, in-line defective sector skipping
• Reassignment of defective sectors discovered in the field, without reformatting
• Shock Protection System to reduce handling induced failures
• Data Protection System to verify drive integrity
• Quiet Drive Technology (QDT)