Toshiba Explore the Advanced Features of MK3252GSX 2.5-inch SATA Hard Disk Drive

MK3252GSX

2.5-inch SATA Hard Disk Drive

Toshiba Storage Device Division introduces the industry’s most advanced HDD to date: The world’s first 320GB 2.5-inch hard disk drive. (August 2007).

The MK3252GSX reinforces Toshiba’s technical and manufacturing expertise by offering 254 Gigabits of data per square inch. The industry’s highest capacity to date (August 07) of 320GB in a 9.5mm form factor has been achieved through advances in the magnetic media used in the HDD platters and the components utilised to read and write data.

Weighing 102 g (max), Toshiba’s MK3252GSX 320GB hard disk drive breaks current capacity barriers, providing a compact and solid solution for notebooks and small form factor PCs, set-top boxes, external storage and much more digital applications.

Features MK3252GSX

Data Storage Capacity:
Per drive, Formatted	320 GB

Physical & Environmental Specifications Dimensions –mm:

Number of Platters	2
Number of Heads	4
Bytes/ Sector	512
Rotational Speed (rpm)	5,400
Average Seek Time:	msec
Track-to-Track	2
Average	12
Maximum	22
Interface:
Type	Serial ATA II Rev.2.6
Buffer (MB)	8
Data Transfer Rate:	300MB/sec
Nominal Power
Requirements:
Voltage (V); Supply	+5V (5%)
Sleep (Watts)	0.13
Standby (Watts)	0.16
Read (Watts)	1.9
Write (Watts)	1.9
Seeking (Watts)	2.2

Height

Width

Depth

Weight

Ambient Temperature °C :

Operating

Non-Operating

Vibration and Shock:

Operating

Non-Operating

Acoustic Noise

Reliability Characteristics:

MTTF

Error Rates:

Unrecoverable

Seek

9.5

70

100

102 g

5°~55°

-40°~60°

1.0G Vibration 350 G Shock 900 G Shock

27 dBA (seek)

300,000 hours

1 in 1013 bits

1 in 106 bits

Application: • Notebook systems

•External storage

•Small Form Factor PCs

•Set-top boxes

•And more digital applications