SATA hard drives
Serial ATA Hard Drive Characteristics
Number of pins/conductors in data cable 7/7
Number of pins in power cable 15
Maximum data cable length 39.37 in (100 cm)
Data interface voltage dierential 400-700 mV
Drive voltages 3.3 V, 5 V, 12 V
Jumpers for conguring drive N/A
Data transfer rate 6.0 Gb/s
SMART ATA drives
The Self Monitoring Analysis and Recording Technology (SMART) ATA drives for HP personal computers have
built-in drive failure prediction that warns the user or network administrator of an impending failure (crash) of
the hard drive. The SMART drive tracks fault prediction and failure indication parameters such as reallocated
sector count, spin retry count, and calibration retry count. If the drive determines that a failure is imminent, it
generates a fault alert.
16 Chapter 3 Routine care, SATA drive guidelines, and disassembly preparation
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