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The Samsung Spinpoint F1 Hard Disk Drive
The 1 TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 hard drive looks just like any other 3.5" desktop hard drive, with a label on the top plate and an uncovered PCB on the underside.
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The label has a lot of important information, like the hard drive model, storage capacity and buffer size. There are also interesting details like its date and place of manufacture. This particular drive was manufactured in China in May 2009.
Also, the label is where you look for the drive's serial number in case you need to RMA it. Of course, we hope that never happens! 
Let's take a look at its specifications.
Specifications
Model |
• HD103UJ |
Formatted Capacity |
• 1,000,202 MB |
Guaranteed Sectors |
• NA |
Bytes Per Sector |
• 512 bytes |
Sectors Per Track |
• NA |
Cylinders |
• NA |
Platters |
• 3 |
Read/Write Heads |
• 6 |
Recording Method |
• NA |
Interleave |
• 1 : 1 |
Spindle Speed |
• 7,200 RPM |
Cache Buffer |
• 32 MB SDRAM |
Maximum Internal Data Transfer Rate |
• 175 MB/s |
Maximum I/O Transfer Rate |
• 3 Gbits/s |
Average Seek |
• 8.9 ms (typical) |
Average Latency |
• 4.17 ms (nominal) |
Drive Ready Time |
• 12.0 seconds (average) |
Interface |
• Serial ATA 3Gb/s |
Supported SATA Data Transfer Mode |
• 3 Gbits/s |
SATA II Hotplug Capability |
• Yes |
Maximum Height |
• 26.1 mm |
Maximum Width |
• 101.6 mm |
Maximum Length |
• 147.0 mm |
Maximum Weight |
• 650 g |
Power Requirements |
• +5 V DC ± 5 % |
Power Consumption |
• 28.8 W (Spin Up) |
Ambient Temperature |
• 0 °C to 60 °C
(Operating) |
Operating Altitude |
• -300 meters to 3,000 meters |
Non-Operating Altitude |
• -300 meters to 12,000 meters |
Maximum Operating Shock |
• 70 G (half sine pulse) |
Maximum Non-Operating Shock |
• 300 G (half sine pulse) |
Drive Acoustics |
• 27 dBA average (Idle Mode) |
Maximum Operating Vibration |
• NA |
Maximum Non-Operating Vibration |
• NA |
Non-Recoverable Read Errors |
• 1 sector (512 bits) per 1015 bits |
Load/Unload Cycles |
• 50,000 |
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