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200GB 2.5" Hitachi Travelstar 5K250 5400RPM SATA Notebook Drive with 8MB Cache - New, 3 Year Warranty (HIT0A52123) Same Day $57.99
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Hitachi Travelstar™ 5K250
High-capacity notebook PC storage

Balanced capacity and performance for mobile computing

The Travelstar™ 5K250 is Hitachi’s highest capacity, 5400 RPM hard drive for notebook PCs. With more than a 56% capacity improvement and 8% better application performance than its predecessor, this drive is the work horse of the mobile product line. The 5K250 offers a maximum capacity of 250 GB with best-of-breed performance in PCMark testing. Travelstar 5K250, with outstanding power management, delivers the lowest 5400 RPM power consumption, providing longer battery life for notebook users. Hitachi has improved the shock performance of the 5K250 by almost 23% to an industry-leading 400G, enhancing its ability to withstand rough handling. The acoustics have also been improved over the previous generation product, allowing users to enjoy high quality audio on their laptops.Travelstar 5K250 is designed to address the balanced requirements of notebook PC and mobile computing users – high capacity, ruggedness, power-efficiency and speed.

Hitachi quality and service

Hitachi Travelstar mobile hard disk drives are designed to the highest quality standards and contain field-proven components. Hitachi provides worldwide technical support and integration services to enable global customers to bring their products to market quickly.

Highlights

  • Capacity range up to 250 GB¹
  • Highest 5400 RPM application performance in PCMark testing
  • Industry-leading operating shock of 400G
  • Best-of-breed low power consumption
  • Serial ATA 1.5 Gb/s

Applications

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

Travelstar 5K250 Specifications

Model(s) HTS542525K9SA00
HTS542520K9SA00
HTS542516K9SA00
HTS542512K9SA00
HTS542580K9SA00
Interface SATA 1.5 Gb/sec
Capacity (GB)1 250 / 200 / 160 / 120 / 80
Sector size (bytes) 512
Recording zones 24
Data heads (physical) 4 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 2
Data disks 2 / 2 / 2 / 1 / 1
Max. areal density (Gbits/sq. inch) 205
Performance
Data buffer (MB)² 8
Rotational speed (RPM) 5400
Latency average (ms) 5.5
Media transfer rate (Mbits/sec, max) 665
Interface Transfer Rate (MB/sec, max) 150
Seek time (read, typical) (avg. ms)³ 11
Track to track (read, typical) (avg. ms) 1
Full stroke 20
Reliability
Load/unload cycles 600,000
Warranty 3 years
Power
Requirement +5 VDC (±5%)
Startup (W, peak, max.) 5.0
Seek (W, avg.) 2.2
Read / Write (W, avg.) 1.8
Performance idle (W, avg.) 1.7
Active idle (W, avg.) 0.8
Low power idle (W, avg.) .55
Standby (W, avg.) 0.2
Sleep (W) 0.1
Acoustics (A-weighted sound power)
Idle (typical) 2.4
Seel (typical) 2.6
Physical
z-height (mm) 9.5 mm
Dimensions (width x depth, mm) 70 x 100
Weight (max, g) 102 // 95
Environmental (Operating)
Shock (half-sine wave) 400G / 2ms, 200G / 1ms
Ambient temperature 5 to 55° C
Environmental (Non-operating)  
Shock (half-sine wave) 1000G / 1ms
Ambient temperature -40 to 65° C
  1. One GB is equal to one billion 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

Specific application environments such as temperature and duty cycle will affect the overall reliability rates.

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