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Barracuda Product Manual Rev04
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2.2 Key Features
Key features of the Barracuda SATA hard disk drive includes:
Formatted capacity is 500GB per Disk
1-inch height form factor
5,435 /7,247 RPM class
8.9 ms average seek time
High precision rotary voice coil actuator with embedded sector servo
Serial ATA (SATA) Interface
Supports SATA interface Gen I (1.5 Gbps) and Gen II (3.0 Gbps) speed
Native SATA device without using SATA bridge chip
Support SATA 1.0a 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)
Physical Event Counters
Software Settings Preservation
SATA Device Hot Plug Capability
Device Initiated Power Management
Host Initiated Power Management
Supports both CHS and LBA (28 and 48 bit) Addressing modes
Supports all logical geometries as programmed by the host
16MB/32MB buffer memory for read and write cache.
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 (thermal asperity) detection and correction
Dynamic anti-stiction algorithm
Tunneling MR head
SMART feature support
Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM)
Hot-plug and Hot-Swap capable
SilentSeek™
Noise Guard™
Fluid Bearing Spindle Motor Technology
Summary of Contents for Barracuda Series
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