Technical information

HGST Ultrastar C15K600 Hard Disk Drive Specification
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- Idle Time Intervals indicates the cumulative number of idle times spent while there are no commands in the
task set and there are no commands being processed by the logical unit.
Idle time is calculated using the time interval in parameter 0003h:
idle time = (time increments not processing commands x time interval)
The time interval descriptor contains the time interval in seconds.
Table 120 Time Interval Descriptor
Byte
Bit
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
0-3
Exponent
4-7
Integer
- Exponent contains the negative power of 10 exponent to multiply with the Integer field.
- Integer, when multiplied by the exponent, contains the value that represents one time interval.
The Exponent and Integer are set to the equivalent of 50ms (5x10
-2
seconds).