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Travelstar Series
2.5-Inch Mobile Hard Drives
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.
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
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
Applications and Workload
- Notebook PCs
- Compact Desktop PCs
- External Storage
- Gaming Consoles
- Compact Video Devices
- Network Routers (EA Models)
- Video Surveillance (EA Models)
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Travelstar Z7K500.B
Travelstar Z5K500
Travelstar 7K1000
Travelstar 5K1000
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
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
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
