Outline Of The Drive - Hitachi HTS542516K9SA00 Specifications

2 Outline of the drive

2.5-inch, 9.5-mm Height
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Perpendicular Recording
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Formatted capacities of 250GB, 160GB,120GB, and 80GB (512 bytes/sector)
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Interface conforming to Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision
 SATA
2.6(15-February-2007)
Integrated controller
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No-ID recording format
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Coding : 100/102 2bit parity (199/200 RC Modulation Encoding)
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Multi zone recording
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Enhanced
ECC
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10 bit 40 symbol non Interleaved Read Solomon code
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Non interleave On-The –Fly correction
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Included 2 symbol system ECC
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Segmented Buffer with write cache
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8192 KB - Upper 736 KB is used for firmware
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Fast data transfer rate
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HTS5425xxK9A300 model : up to 3.0Gbit/s
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HTS5425xxK9SA00 model : up to 1.5Gbit/s
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Media data transfer rate (max):
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665 Mb/s
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Average seek time: 11 ms for read
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Closed-loop actuator servo (Embedded Sector Servo)
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Rotary voice coil motor actuator
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Load/Unload mechanism
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Mechanical latch
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0.55 Watts at idle state
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Power on to ready
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3.5 sec
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Operating shock
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3920 m/sec2 (400 G)/2ms
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1960 m/sec2 (200G)/1ms
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Nonoperating shock
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9800 m/sec2 (1000 G)/1ms
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Full data encryption as optional (HTS5425xxK9SA00 model only)
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