Samsung SpinPoint M9T, Product Manual

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Spinpoint M9T Product Manual REV 1.0
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DESCRIPTION
2.2 Key Features
Key features of the Spinpoint M9T SATA hard disk drive includes:
 Formatted capacities are 1.5TB and 2TB
 9.5 ± 0.2 mm height form factor
 5400 RPM Class
 12 ms average seek time
 High accuracy rotary voice coil actuator with embedded sector servo
 Support ATA standard PIO Mode 4/DMA Mode 2/Ultra DMA Mode 7
 Serial ATA (SATA) Interface
 Supports SATA interface 6.0 Gbps (3.0 Gbps, 1.5 Gbps) speed
 Native SATA device without using SATA bridge chip
 Support SATA 3. 1 and SATA II features
 Asynchronous Signal Recovery (ASR)
 Pin - 11 Device Activity Signal (Activity LED)
 Pin - 11 Staggered Spin - up Control
 Auto - Activate DMA Setup FIS
 Native Command Queuing with queue depth of 32 (First Party DMA)
 Phy Event Counters
 Software Settings Preservation
 SATA Device Hot Plug Capability
 Device Initiated Power Management
 Supports LBA Addressing modes
 Supports all logical geometries as programmed by the host
 Transparent media defect mapping
 High performance in - line defective sector skipping
 Auto - reassignment
 Automatic error correction and retries
 On - the - fly (OTF) error correction
 Noise predictive PRML read channel
 TA detection and correction
 TuMR/PMR head
 SMART III support
 1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes, 1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes
Accessible capacity may vary as some OS uses binary numbering system for reported capacity.