Technical information

HGST Ultrastar C15K600 Hard Disk Drive Specification

• SAS Dual Ported Operation

- Single PHY ports (i.e. Narrow port. Wide Port NOT supported)

- Ports function independently with separate firmware controls

- Multiple DMA engines capable of accessing either port

- Maximum outstanding credit of four per port

• Physical Link Rates

- G1 (1.5 Gbs), G2 (3.0 Gbps), G3 (6.0 Gbps), and G4 (12.0 Gbps) supported

- Largely automated OOB and speed negotiation sequences

- Optional support for the hot-plug timeout in hardware

• Partial support for Disconnect/Reconnect Mode Page (0x02)

- Maximum Connect Time Limit - SUPPORTED

- Bus Inactivity Time Limit - NOT SUPPORTED

- Maximum Burst Size - SUPPORTED

- First Burst Size - NOT SUPPORTED

• Others...

- Connection Rate Matching

- Hard Reset primitive sequence detection and validation in hardware

- Support for NOTIFY (Power Loss Expected)

- NOTIFY (Enable Spin-up) is ignored

- Hashed WWN validation in hardware

- Extended CDB support