A look under the SMOOTH chip of a 80 GB Seagate 7200.7
September 4th, 2013, 15:09
The SMOOTH chip of a Seagate 7200.7 Barracuda has a 64 pin SMD package with a large ground or heat sink plane on the backside that
seems to be soldered onto the PCB:
seems to be soldered onto the PCB:
Re: A look under the SMOOTH chip of a 80 GB Seagate 7200.7
September 19th, 2013, 23:01
Is it always like that?
Re: A look under the SMOOTH chip of a 80 GB Seagate 7200.7
September 20th, 2013, 2:15
What's strange in all this ?
Re: A look under the SMOOTH chip of a 80 GB Seagate 7200.7
September 20th, 2013, 7:41
Why is it called SMOOTH ? Is it an abbrevation ?
Re: A look under the SMOOTH chip of a 80 GB Seagate 7200.7
September 20th, 2013, 11:15
Matiw wrote:Why is it called SMOOTH ? Is it an abbrevation ?
For me it was a kind of association with "smoke" and "pufff"
Re: A look under the SMOOTH chip of a 80 GB Seagate 7200.7
September 20th, 2013, 16:13
"Smoothdrive" is the name ST Microelectronics gave to its proprietary "voltage mode pseudo-sinusoidal" commutation algorithm.
http://pdf.datasheetcatalog.com/datashe ... Xyuswx.pdf
http://pdf.datasheetcatalog.com/datashe ... Xyuswx.pdf
Re: A look under the SMOOTH chip of a 80 GB Seagate 7200.7
September 21st, 2013, 6:08
Thanks a lot, fzabkar.
fzabkar wrote:"Smoothdrive" is the name ST Microelectronics gave to its proprietary "voltage mode pseudo-sinusoidal" commutation algorithm.
http://pdf.datasheetcatalog.com/datashe ... Xyuswx.pdf
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