Seagate Cheetah 18LP FC ST318251FC / 9P2004-001 18GB 3.5″ FC-AL HDD – Refurbished
Cheetah 18LP FC General Description
CheetahTM 18LP FC drives combine dual stripe magneto resistive (DSMR) heads, partial response/maximum likelihood (PRML) read channel electronics, embedded servo technology, and a Fibre Channel interface to provide high performance, high capacity data storage for a variety of systems including engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers.
Cheetah 18LP FC drives are random access storage devices designed to support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocols. Cheetah 18LP FC drives are classified as intelligent peripherals and provide level 2 conformance (highest level) with the ANSI SCSI-1 standard.
Cheetah 18LP FC drives have the following standard features:
- Integrated dual port FC-AL controller
- Concurrent dual port transfers
- Support for FC arbitrated loop, private and public attachment
- Differential copper FC drivers and receivers
- Downloadable firmware using the FC-AL interface
- Supports SCSI enclosure services via interface connector
- 128-deep task set (queue)
- Supports up to 32 initiators
- Drive selection ID and configuration options are set on the FC-AL backpanel or through interface commands. Jumpers are not used on the drive.
- Supports SCSI Enclosure Services through the interface connector
- Fibre Channel worldwide name uniquely identifies the drive and each port
- User-selectable logical block size (512 to 4,096 bytes per logical block)
- Selectable frame sizes from 128 to 2,112 bytes
- Industry standard 3.5-inch low profile form factor dimensions
- Programmable logical block reallocation scheme
- Flawed logical block reallocation at format time
- Programmable auto write and read reallocation
- Reed-Solomon error correction code
- Sealed head and disc assembly (HDA)
- No preventive maintenance or adjustments required
- Dedicated head landing zone
- Automatic shipping lock
- Embedded Grey Code track address to eliminate seek errors
- Self-diagnostics performed at power on
- 1:1 interleave
- Zone bit recording (ZBR)
- Vertical, horizontal, or top down mounting
- Dynamic spindle brake
- 1,024 Kbyte data buffer.
- Embedded servo design
- Reallocation of defects on command (Post Format)
- Fibre Channel interface transports SCSI protocol
Performance
- Programmable multi-segmentable cache buffer
- 106 Mbytes/sec maximum instantaneous data transfers per port
- 10,016 RPM spindle; average latency = 2.99 msec
- Command queuing of up to 128 commands
- Background processing of queue
- Supports start and stop commands
- Adaptive seek velocity; improved seek performance
Reliability
- 1,000,000 hour MTBF
- LSI circuitry
- Balanced low mass rotary voice coil actuator
- Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)
- Dithering
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