Seagate (Conner) ST-3544A
These re-named Conner drives finally saw off the venerable ST-3660. They sold in reasonable numbers for a short while right at the end of the 500MB era. They were quite fast for a 540, simple to set up by Conner standards (which is not saying much!), cheap, and reliable.
Performance | 0.77 | Reliability | AA1 |
Data rate | 46 Mbit/sec | Spin rate | 4500 RPM |
Seek time | 12ms | Buffer | 256k |
Platter capacity | 270MB | Encoding | RLL |
Form | 3½" 1/3 height | Interface | IDE mode 3 |
ST-3544A | 540.9MB | 4 thin film heads | *** |