Technical data

General Description
2-2 DiamondMax 10 80/100/120/160/200/250/300GB Serial ATA
• Reduced pin count enables RAID scalability
• Complete software and driver transparent with Serial ATA
• Point-to-Point host to device connection
•Low voltages
• Interface power control features
• East installation/configuration (plug/play, no jumpers, no external terminators)
• Command optimization
• Native command queuing using first party DMA
Performance
• Average seek time of <9.0 ms
• Average rotational latency of 4.18 ms
• Serial ATA interface with transfer speeds up to 150MB per second
• 8MB and 16MB (250/300) 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)
Reliability
• Automatic retry on read errors
• S.M.A.R.T. 4 (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
• Transparent media defect mapping
• 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)