Travelstar 5K160 (SATA) Hard Disk Drive Specification

6.5.2Nonoperating vibration

The disk drive withstands the following vibration levels without any loss or permanent damage.

6.5.2.1Random vibration

The test consists of a random vibration applied in each of three mutually perpendicular axes for a duration of 15 minutes per axis. The PSD levels for the test simulating the shipping and relocation environment is shown below.

Hz

(m/sec2)/Hz

2.5

0.096

5

2.88

40

1.73

500

1.73

Table 19. Random Vibration PSD Profile Breakpoints (nonoperating)

Note: Overall RMS level of vibration is 29.50 m/sec2 (3.01 G).

6.5.2.2Swept sine vibration

49 m/sec2 (5 G) (zero-to-peak), 10 to 500 to 10 Hz sine wave 0.5 oct/min sweep rate

25.4mm (peak-to-peak) displacement, 5 to 10 to 5 Hz

6.5.3Operating shock

The hard disk drive meets the criteria in the table below while operating under these conditions: The shock test consists of 10 shock inputs in each axis and direction for a total of 60. There must be a minimum delay of 3 seconds between shock pulses.

The disk drive will operate without a hard error while subjected to the following half-sine shock pulse.

Duration of 1 ms

Duration of 2 ms

 

 

1568 m/sec2 (160 G)

3185 m/sec2 (325 G)

Table 20. Operating shock

The input level shall be applied to the normal disk drive subsystem mounting points used to secure the drive in a normal system.

6.5.4Nonoperating shock

The drive withstands the following half-sine shock pulse without any data loss or permanent damage.

Duration of 1 ms

Duration of 11 ms

 

 

9800 m/sec2 (1000 G)

1470 m/sec2 (150 G)

Table 21. Nonoperating shock

The shocks are applied for each direction of the drive for three mutually perpendicular axes, one axis at a time. Input levels are measured on a base plate where the drive is attached with four screws.

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