Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. A
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4.2.2
Format command execution time (minutes)
When changing sector sizes, the format times shown below may need to be increased by 30 minutes.
Note.
There is no significant difference in the format time between SED and non-SED models of the
same capacity.
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).
4.2.3
General performance characteristics
4.3
Start/stop time
The drive accepts the commands listed in the SAS Interface Manual less than 3 seconds after DC power has
been applied.
If the drive receives a NOTIFY (ENABLE SPINUP) primitive through either port and has not received a START
STOP UNIT command with the START bit equal to 0, the drive becomes ready for normal operations within 20
seconds (excluding the error recovery procedure).
If the drive receives a START STOP UNIT command with the START bit equal to 0 before receiving a NOTIFY
(ENABLE SPINUP) primitive, the drive waits for a START STOP UNIT command with the START bit equal to 1.
After receiving a START STOP UNIT command with the START bit equal to 1, the drive waits for a NOTIFY
(ENABLE SPINUP) primitive. After receiving a NOTIFY (ENABLE SPINUP) primitive through either port, the
drive becomes ready for normal operations within 20 seconds (excluding the error recovery procedure).
ST3600057SS
ST3450857SS
ST3300657SS
Maximum (with verify)
119
90
58
Maximum (without verify)
60
45
29
Sustainable disk transfer rate*:
Minimum
122 Mbytes/sec (typical)
Maximum
204 Mbytes/sec (typical)
SAS Interface maximum instantaneous transfer rate
600 Mbytes/sec* per port
Logical block sizes
Default is 512-byte data blocks
Sector sizes variable to 512, 520, and 528 kbytes.
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 msec
*Assumes system ability to support the rates listed and no cable loss.
1 MB/sec = 1,000,000 bytes/sec
