MAINSTREAM ENTERPRISE DISC DRIVE STORAGE PI DATE : DECEMBER 2006 TYPE : 3.5" int, 25.4 mm H, 101.6 mm W, 146.05 mm L FORMATTED CAPACITY: 146.8 GB Formatted INTERFACE: 3-Gbit/sec Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) TRANSFER RATE: Int: 960 - 1607 Mbits/sec Formatted Int: 89 - 150 MBytes/sec Sustained: 73 125 Mbytes/sec Ext (max): 300 MBytes/sec RPM : 15K RPM spindle speed SEEK TIME: Average: 3.5/4 ms, Track-to-Track: 0.2/0.4 ms (Read/Write) APPS: mainstream enterprise applications, such as: - E-mail - Business processing -Transaction processing - Decision support - Storage Area Networks (SAN) - Networked Attached Storage (NAS) - Internet and e-commerce WEIGHT: 0.771 kg * Background Media Scan (BMS) proactively scans the media for potential defects during drive idle time * It enables incipient errors to be corrected before data is lost. * Perpendicular recording is fundamentally superior, enabling the highest areal density with 30 percent higher performance * Idle Read After Write (IRAW) enhances data protection by verifying - during drive idle time-that data in the drive buffer was properly written