ST31277A

Top lid of a ST31277A.

Manufacturer

Seagate

Product family

Seagate Medalist 1277

Form factor

3.5"

z-height (mm)

26.1

Basic specifications

Capacity

1.28 GB

Spindle speed (RPM)

4,500

Cache

128 kB

Maximum sustained speed (MB/s)

11 (88 Mb/s)^[1]

Sector specifications

LBAs

2,501,856

Logical C/H/S

2482/16/63

User capacity (bytes)

1,280,950,272

Advanced Format?

No

Logical sector size (bytes)

512

Physical sector size (bytes)

512

Interface specifications

Interface

PATA/IDE

Interface version

UDMA 2 (33 MB/s)^[1]

Command set

ATA-2

Drive features

APM?

No

AAM?

No

NCQ?

No

Streaming feature set?

No

GPL?

No

EPC modes

Currently under investigation

SIE?

No

SED algorithm

None

SCTERC defaults

Not supported

Device Statistics?

No

Typical media
Platters	Heads
2	4

Capacity per platter

640 MB

Short stroked capacity

None

Recording layout

Run-length limited

Recording assist

Conventional

Reliability

MTTF

None

Maximum load/unload cycles

40,000 (contact start-stops)

Unrecoverable error rate

1

in

1 0^{14}

Technical information

KCC/MSIP Authorization Number

None

Product availability

Released

1996?

Discontinued

1998?

Predecessor	Successor
None	None

ST31277A was a hard drive model created by Seagate, using assets from Conner which was purchased by Seagate earlier. It is the only member of the Medalist 1277 family.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Seagate. "Medalist 1722 ATA Interface Drive Product Manual" (PDF). Code Micro. Retrieved 11 September 2022.

[manual-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Seagate. "Medalist 1722 ATA Interface Drive Product Manual" (PDF). Code Micro. Retrieved 11 September 2022.

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