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Hard Disk Drives Supported

Hard Disk Drives are used in most computers, servers, disk arrays, notebooks and alike.

Sunstar Company offers new, used and reconditioned hard disk drives.          

SCSI, Fibre, IDE, ATA, SATA, MFM, RLL & ESDI Drives for PC's, Servers, RAID and Notebooks

Hitachi CDC Imprimis Bull
IBM DEC Micropolis Emulex
Maxtor Fujitsu NCR Phillips
Seagate Technology HP Quantum Sequent
Western Digital NEC Tandem Sun
  Toshiba Unisys  

 

8 to 14 Inch Drives   Older Hard Drives

Parallel vs. Serial Interfaces
 

Interface Technology Transfer Rate Cabling Connectivity Connectivity
Current Planned
ATA/IDE - Parallel - 133 MB/s - At max today - Wide ribbon
- 40-pin
- 18-inch length		 - 2 drives per channel
- Master/slave relationship
- Shared bandwidth among drives
SATA - Serial - 150 MB/s - 600 MB/s - Thin, round ribbon
- 4-pin
- 1-meter length		 - Single drive per channel
- Point-to-point connection
- Full bandwidth per drive
SCSI - Parallel - 320 MB/s - None planned - Wide, round ribbon
- 68-pin
- 12.5 meter (LVD) length		 - Up to 15 devices per channel
SAS - Serial - 300 MB/s - 1200 MB/s - Thin, round ribbon
- 6-meter length		 - 128 devices
- Expanders allow up to 16,000 devices

 

For drive specifications and useful information go to data page.

Other Manufacturers Supported   Tape Drives Supported  Credit Application   Resale Certificate  Returns Policy   Warranty Policy                

           

     

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