Hard Drive Configuration and Specs

Seagate and IBM have great online resources providing configuration information and specifications for their drives. However, I often find myself searching for information on the same drives, over and over again. That's because I own a small subset of the vast line of products these companies offer.

So, on this page, I've collected some of the useful information about the most of the drives I own that have a capacity of at least a gigabyte. (I don't tend to use my large stash of sub-gigabyte drives anymore. Anyone want them?)

Seagate Disks

Specs for Seagate drives:
  Model
  Number  		   Model
  Name  		   Interface
  Info  		   Speed  (RPM, avg
  access r/w, Mbits/s)		   Installation
  Help 		   Technical
   Specs 		  Product
 Manual		 Install
 Guide
  ST39102LW  Cheetah 9LP   Ultra2 Wide 10025, 5.4/6.2, 152-231   Config Page    Spec Page   prod   inst
  ST39173LW  Barracuda 9LP   Ultra2 Wide   7200, 7.4/8.2, 120-190   Config Page    Spec Page   prod   inst
  ST19171W  Barracuda 9   Ultra Wide   7200, 9.7/10.7, 80-124   Config Page    Spec Page   prod   inst
  ST32272N  Barracuda 4XL   Ultra   7200, 9.4/10.4, 92-140   Config Page    Spec Page   prod   inst
  ST34371WC  Barracuda 4LP   Ultra Wide   7200, 9.4/10.4, 80-122   Config Page    Spec Page   prod   inst
  ST15150W  Barracuda 4   Fast Wide   7200, 8.0/9.0, 47.4-71.9   Config Page    Spec Page   prod   inst
  ST32550N  Barracuda 2LP   Fast   7200, 8.0/9.0, 49.4-72.0   Config Page    Spec Page   prod   inst
  ST410800N  Elite 9   Fast   5400, 11/12, 44-65   Config Page    Spec Page   prod   inst
  ST15230N  Hawk 4   Fast   5411, 10.4/11.4, 33.9-61.0   Config Page    Spec Page   prod   inst
  ST32430WC  Hawk 2LP   Fast Wide   5411, 10.4/11.4, 35.8-62.2   Config Page    Spec Page   prod   inst
  ST12400N  Hawk 2   Fast   5411, 9.0/10.5, 26.8-45.6   Config Page    Spec Page   prod   inst
  ST31200N  Hawk 1LP   Fast   5411, 9.3/10.5, 26.8-47.2   Config Page    Spec Page   prod   inst
 

Search any Seagate product by model number:

Verify the warrany status of a Seagate drive.

Some notes on Seagate's terminology:

The model name contains a number, which is the maximum capacity in that series, and may contain letters, which indicate the drive's generation, in this order: without letters, LP, XL, ES.

IBM Disks

The IBM Technical Library

DNES-309170 - 9GB 1" SCA (Ultrastar 18ES)
7200 RPM, Ultra Wide or Ultra-2 Wide SCSI, 159-244 Mbits/s media transfer rate, avg seek 7.0 ms, 2 MB data buffer; product home page, technical library, PDF data sheet
DDRS-39130 - 9GB 1" SCA (Ultrastar 9ES)
(see below)
DDRS-34560 - 4GB 1" SCA (Ultrastar 9ES)
7200 RPM, Ultra Wide or Ultra-2 Wide SCSI, 108.6-171.1 Mbits/s media transfer rate, avg seek 7.5 ms, 512 KB data buffer; product home page, technical library, PDF data sheet
DCAS-32160 - 2GB 1" SCA (Ultrastar 2ES)
5400 RPM, Ultra Wide, 62.5-103.4 Mbits/s media transfer rate, avg seek 8.5 ms, 448 KB sector buffer; product home page, technical library
DPES-31080 - 1GB 1" SCA (Deskstar XP)
5400 RPM, Fast SCSI (Narrow), 39.8-55.1 Mbit/s media transfer rate, avg seek 10.5/12.5 ms (r/w), 448 KB sector buffer; product home page

Fujitsu Disks

Fujitsu MAN3367MC - 36 GB 1" SCA
10000 RPM, Ultra160 SCSI, 4.5/5.0 ms average access read/write, 8 MB buffer; config page?
Fujitsu MAG3182LC - 18 GB 1" SCA
10000 RPM, ; config page?
Fujitsu MAB3045SC - 4.2 GB 1" SCA
7200 RPM, Ultra Wide SCSI, 7.5/8.5 ms access r/w, 512 KB buffer, 13.2 to 19.5 MB/s media transfer rate, draws 9 W; product manual

Other Disks

Quantum XP34300W (Quantum Atlas I) - 4 GB 3.5? half-height
7200 RPM, (Fast?) Wide SCSI, 14.0 ms avg access, 8.5 ms avg seek, 5.7MB/s avg linear speed, cache read speed 14.2 MB/s, 1MB buffer (overall similar to, but just short of, performance of st15150w); config page?; spec page
Conner CFP2105S - 2.1 GB 3.5" 1" height
5400 RPM, Fast SCSI, 33.3-68.7 Mbit/sec media transfer rate, 9.5/10.5 ms average access (r/w), 512 KB buffer; config page, specs page
DEC DSP3105S - 1 GB 3.5" half-height
5400 RPM, Fast SCSI, 9.5 ms seek, 15.6 ms access, 512 KB cache; Dell's config page

Performance

This really ought to go on a separate page.