Technical information

HGST Ultrastar C15K600 Hard Disk Drive Specification
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- Tracks per Zone specifies the number of tracks within the zone. This field is a function of the active notch.
- Sectors per Track specifies the number of physical sectors within each track. This field is a function of the
active notch.
- Data Bytes per Physical Sector specifies the number of user data bytes per physical sector. The value
depends upon the current formatted Block Length.
- Interleave value of 1 or 0 is valid. However, the drive will ignore this.
- Track Skew Factor indicates the number of physical sectors between the last block of one track and the first
block on the next sequential track of the same cylinder. This field is a function of the active notch.
- Cylinder Skew Factor indicates the number of physical sectors between the last block of one cylinder and the
first block on the next sequential cylinder. This field is a function of the active notch.
- SSEC = Zero indicates that the drive does not support soft sector formatting.
- HSEC = One indicates that the drive supports hard sector formatting.
- RMB = Zero indicates that the media does not support removable Fixed Disk.
- SURF = Zero indicates that progressive addresses are assigned to all logical blocks in a cylinder prior to
allocating addresses within the next cylinder.