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Performance characteristics
This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Enterprise Performance 15K
HDD and Enterprise Turbo SSHD drives.
4.1
Internal drive characteristics
600GB Models
450GB Models
300GB Models
Drive capacity
600
450
300
GB (formatted, rounded off value)
Read/write data heads
6
6
4
Bytes per track
1095/1168
1142/1158
1142/1158
KBytes (avg, rounded off values)(4KN or 512e / 512N)
Bytes per surface
100,000
75,000
75,000
MB (unformatted, rounded off values
Tracks per surface (total)
114
86/93
86/93
KTracks (user accessible) (4KN or 512e / 512N)
Tracks per in
289
218/234
218/234
KTPI (average) (4KN or 512e / 512N)
Peak bits per in
1704/1816
1779/1805
1779/1805
KBPI
Areal density
479/530
518/526
518/526
Gb/in2 (4KN or 512e / 512N)
Disk rotation speed
15K
15K
15K
RPM
Avg rotational latency
2.0
2.0
2.0
ms
4.2
Seek performance characteristics
4.2.1
Format command execution time for 512-byte sectors (minutes)
600GB Models
450GB Models
300GB models
Maximum (with verify)
120
90
60
Maximum (without verify)
60
45
30
Execution time measured from receipt of the last byte of the Command Descriptor Block (CDB) to the request for a Status Byte Transfer to
the Initiator (excluding connect/disconnect).
When changing sector sizes, the format times shown above may need to be increased by 30 minutes.
4.2.2
General performance characteristics
Sustained transfer rate
180 to 246 MiB/s 4KN/512e **
160 to 233 MiB/s 512N **
SAS Interface maximum instantaneous transfer rate
1200 MB/s* per port
(dual port = 2,400 MB/s*)
Logical block sizes
512 (default), 520, 524 and 528
4k - 4096 (default), 4160, 4192, and 4224
Read/write consecutive sectors on a track
Yes
Flaw reallocation performance impact (for flaws reallocated at format time using the
spare sectors per sparing zone reallocation scheme.)
Negligible
Average rotational latency
2.0 ms
* Assumes no errors and no relocated logical blocks. Rate measured from the start of the first logical block transfer to or
from the host.
** MiB/s x 1.048 = MB/s