Travelstar Series

2.5-Inch Mobile Hard Drives

OVERVIEW

Capacity, Performance and Enhanced Availability Options for Mobile Computing

Designed with affordable capacity and performance in mind, the Travelstar series delivers the right balance of capacity, speed, and design flexibility to meet the needs of mobile applications. Available in an industry-standard 2.5-inch form factor, Travelstar drives are offered in either 7,200 RPM or 5,400 RPM performance, and two different z-height hicknesses. The 9.5mm drives offer cost-effective capacity for notebook PCs, external storage, gaming consoles, and other mobile applications. The thinner, 7mm Travelstar drives are an ideal choice to support sleek, ultra-slim mobile product designs. Models with enhanced availability (EA) options support the stringent demands of “always on” applications in lower transaction environments. Both commercial and consumer users can rely on Travelstar to meet the demanding storage needs of mobile computing.

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Capacity for Mobile Platforms

Capacity

Up to 1TB of affordable capacity to support portable systems

RPM Choice

7,200 RPM and 5,400 RPM performance options

Design Flexibility

Choose 7mm design for thin and light or 9.5mm for max capacity

PRODUCT RESOURCES

Featured Items

Highlights

  • Up to 1TB in a 2.5-inch form factor for mobile applications
  • Performance choice: 7,200 or 5,400 RPM
  • Z-height options of 7mm or 9.5mm support design flexibility
  • Advanced Format, 512-byte emulation
  • 6 Gb/s SATA interface
  • Enhanced availability (EA) models for applications needing around-the-clock access in lower-transaction environments
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Applications and Workload

  • Notebook PCs
  • Compact Desktop PCs
  • External Storage
  • Gaming Consoles
  • Compact Video Devices
  • Network Routers (EA Models)
  • Video Surveillance (EA Models)
Portfolio

Travelstar Series Product Portfolio

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Travelstar Z7K500.B

Travelstar Z5K500

Travelstar 7K1000

Travelstar 5K1000

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Capacity

500GB of storage designed to thrive in mobile applications

7mm Design

Ultra-thin form factor supports sleek, slim portable system designs

7,200 RPM Performance

High performance for faster application response times

Specifications

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Travelstar Z7K500.B

General

Interface

SATA 6 Gb/s

Capacity1

500GB

Format: Sector size (bytes)2

512e

Performance

Data buffer (MB)3

32

Rotational speed (RPM)

7,200

Interface transfer rate (MB/s, max)

600

Media transfer rate (max, Mbits/sec)

1,304

Seek time (average, ms, read)4

12

Reliability

Load/Unload cycles

600,000

Acoustics

Idle (Bels, typical)

1.7

Operating (Bels, typical)

2.2

Power

Requirement

+5 VDC (+/-5%)

Dissipation Startup (W, peak,max)

4.9

Read/Write (W, avg)

1.65

Physical Size

z-height (mm, max)

7

Width (mm)

69.85 (+/- 0.25)

Depth (mm)

100.2 (+/- 0.25)

Weight (g, typical)

92

Environmental (Operating)

Base casting Temperature

0°C to 60°C

Shock (half-sine wave)

400G (2ms)

Environmental (Non-Operating)

Ambient temperature

-40°C to 65°C

Shock (half-sine wave)

1,000G (2ms)

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Disclosures

1.

One megabyte (MB) is equal to one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1,000MB (one billion bytes), and one terabyte (TB) is equal to 1,000GB (one trillion bytes) when referring to storage capacity. Accessible capacity will vary from the stated capacity due to formatting, system software, and other factors.

2.

Advanced Format drive: 4K physical sectors with 512-byte emulation

3.

Portion of buffer used for firmware

4.

Excludes command overhead

5.

Designed for low duty cycle, non mission-critical applications in PC, nearline and consumer electronics environments, which vary application to application