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160GB 2.5" Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 5400RPM SATA Notebook Drive with 8MB Cache - New, 3 Year Warranty. (HIT0A28844) Same Day $49.99
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160GB Hitachi Travelstar™ 5K160
High-capacity EcoTrac storage for notebook PCs and mobile applications

New technology exceeds expectations

Travelstar™ 5K160, Hitachi’s first hard drive to use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), delivers superior technology and reliability. With capacities up to 160 GB, industry-leading performance, low-power consumption and excellent shock resistance, Travelstar 5K160 has the key attributes to support the stringent demands of portable computing. Improved electronics design further reduces the power consumption of this 5400 RPM drive, which beats its industry-leading predecessor by 10%; the 5K160 also runs cooler than the competition. Hitachi has also implemented Thermal Fly-height Control (TFC) for improved error rates, and iridium-manganese-chromium (IrMnCr) read heads for improved reliability. Hitachi has done extensive testing to verify Travelstar 5K160‘s best-in-class standing, making it the “Super-pendicular Drive.”

 

 

Highlights

  • High reliability mobile drive using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR)
  • 80 GB/platter, with capacities up to 160 GB
  • Best-in-class for low-power utilization
  • Outstanding performance

Applications

  • Notebook PCs
  • External storage
  • Gaming consoles
  • Portable video players

Travelstar 5K500.B Specifications

Configuration  
Interface SATA 1.5Gb/s
Capacity (GB)¹ 160
Sector size (bytes) 512
Recording zones 24
Data heads 4
Disks 2
Max. areal density (Gbits/sq. inch) 131.5
Performance
Data buffer (MB)² 8
Rotational speed (RPM) 5400
Latency average (ms) 5.5
Media transfer rate (Mbits/sec, max) 540
Interface Transfer Rate (MB/sec, max) 150
Seek time Average (typical) ms (read)³ 11
Reliability
Load/unload cycles (at 40° C) 600,000
Power
Requirement +5 VDC (±5%)
Dissipation  
  • Startup (W, peak, max.)
5.0
  • Read / Write (W, avg.)
1.8
  • Active idle (W, avg.)
0.85
  • Low power idle (W, avg.)
0.65
  • Standby (W, avg.)
0.25
  • Sleep (W)
0.2
Acoustics (A-weighted sound power)
Idle (Bels, typical) 2.5
Seek (Bels, typical)

2.7

Physical
z-height (mm) 9.5
Dimensions (width x depth, mm) 70 x 100

Weight (max, g)

102

Environmental (Operating)
Shock (half-sine wave) 325G/2ms, 160G/1ms
Ambient temperature 5 to 55° C
Environmental (Non-operating)  
Shock (half-sine wave) 1000G/1ms
Ambient temperature -40° to 65° C
Warranty  
Warranty 3 Year Manufacturer Warranty
  1. One GB is equal to one billion bytes and one TB equals 1,000GB (one trillion bytes) when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may be less.
  2. Upper 736KB out of 8MB used for firmware
  3. Excludes command overhead

Designed for low duty cycle, non mission-critical applications in PC, nearline and consumer electronics environments, which vary from application to application. Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates.

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