Last updated: 20.02.2010

In 1999 it was one of the newest and largest drives on consumer PC market, but now it and all its 5400rpm brothers are relicts...

Benchmarks on my system - Duron 875 on Asus A7V (with integrated Promise ATA100 controller) and 256M of PC133 memory:

Disk Transfer Rate: Beginning 16100 Thousand Bytes/Sec
Disk Transfer Rate: End 9240 Thousand Bytes/Sec
Disk Access Time 15.7 Milliseconds
Disk CPU Utilization 1.42 Percent Used


Official specifications (copied from Fujitsu web site):

High-performance disk drives in capacities ranging from 9.1GB to 18.2GB.

Specifications

  • Breakthrough Giant Magneto-Resistive heads
  • Capacity per platter of 4.3GB
  • Fast access time of 9.5ms, with a 512KB buffer for improved performance
  • Integrated hard disk controller and microprocessor, yielding higher performance and reliability
  • Industry leading 500,000 hour Mean-Time-Between-Failure (MTBF)
  • Three-year, No Excuses® limited warranty
  • S.M.A.R.T. detection system providing enhanced reliability
Feature MPD3043AT MPD3064AT MPD3084AT MPD3108AT MPD3130AT MPD3173AT
Storage capacity (formatted) 4.3GB 6.4GB 8.4GB 10.8GB 12.9GB 17.3GB
Disks/heads 1/2 2/3 2/4 3/5 3/6 4/8
Track capacity (formatted) 113,664 to 207,872 bytes
Cylinders 13,033
Sectors/Track 222 to 406
Seek time  
  Track to track 1.5 ms Typ.
  Average Read: 9.5 ms (typ.); Write: 10.5 ms (typ.)
  Full Track: Read: 18.0 ms (typ.); Write: 19.0 ms (typ.)
Average latency 5.56 ms
Rotational speed 5,400 rpm
Recording density 243,487 BPI
Track density 13,750 TPI
Data transfer rate  
  To/from media 14.51 to 26.1MB/s
  To/from host 33.3 MB/s (UDMA mode 2), 16.7 MB/s (PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2)
Recording code 16/17 EPR4ML
Start time 8 sec. (typ.)
Stop time 20 sec. (typ.)
Interface UDMA66
Buffer Size 512KB
Power
Requirements
 
  Voltage 5VDC±5% / 12VDC±8%
  Spin-up 5V @: 0.8 A / 12V @ 1.9 A
Read/Write
(80 iops)  
4.6 W 5.1 W 5.1 W 5.5 W 5.5 W 6 W
  Idle (Typ.) 3.3 W 3.7 W 3.7 W 4.2 W 4.2 W 4.6 W
  Sleep 1.2 W
Physical Specifications  
Dimensions  
  Height 26.1 mm (1.0 in.)
  Width 101.6 mm (4.0 in.)
  Depth 146.0 mm (5.7 in.)
Weight 600 g (21.2 oz.)
Ambient
temperature
 
  Operating 5°C to 55°C (41°F to 131°F)
  Non-Operating -40°C to 60°C (-40°F to 140°F)
  Gradient 20°C (68°F)/H
Relative Humidity  
  Operating 8% to 80% RH (non-condensing)
  Non-operating 5% to 85% RH (non-condensing)
Max wet bulb 29°C (non-condensing)
Vibration  
  Operating 0.5 G (5 to 300 Hz)
  Non-operating 4.0 G0-p (5 to 400 Hz)
Shock  
  Operating 10 G (half-sin pulse, 11 ms duration)
  Non-operating 75 G (half-sin pulse, 11 ms duration)
Altitude  
  Operating -60 to 3,000 m (-200 to 10,000 ft.) Max
  Non-operating -60 to 12,000 m (-200 to 40,000 ft.) Max
Acoustic noise
(Idle mode)
3.4 Bels 3.5 Bels 3.5 Bels 3.6 Bels 3.6 Bels 3.7 Bels
MTBF > 500,000 power on hours
MTTR < 30 min.
Start/stop cycles 40,000
Error Rates  
  Unrecoverable 1 per 1014 bits read
  Seek 1 per 106 seeks
Limited Warranty 3 years No Excuses (from date of purchase)
2 business days turn-around time
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