Hitachi HTS543216A7A384, 180GXP manual Highlights, Technology for capacity and performance

Performance leadership for data-intensive applications

Hitachi Deskstar 180GXP hard disk drives

Highlights

Three-disk design provides higher capacity with 180GB at 7200rpm performance

The 8MB buffer enables faster data processing, especially for long block transfers.

Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motors enhance idle and operating acoustic operation

Thermal monitor helps provide accurate data read/write over the full system temperature range

Differential read channel enhances data reliability

The Hitachi Deskstar180GXP continues the award-winning tradition of the Deskstar family.The new family of drives incorporates both new and proven tech- nologies to boost system performance. The Deskstar180GXP provides the capacity and performance required to handle a wide range of advanced desktop and audio/video applications.

Hitachi has standardized features in their desktop drives to supply lower acoustics, faster transfer rates and low-power utiliza- tion to make the Deskstar180GXP drive ideal for non-PC, high-performance com- puting requirements.

Technology for capacity and

performance

Three-disk design provides a higher

capacity with 180GB at 7200rpm

performance.

Specially-designed onboard proces-

sor provides faster speeds than the previous generation.

Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ) brings SCSI-like performance to ATA server applications.

Enhanced servo system provides fast, reliable head positioning.

The superior areal density combines with the faster processor and streamlined cache buffer to enable award-winning performance for both the Deskstar hard drive and your system. Enhancements to the servo system and thermal monitor help to enable accurate data storage and retrieval.

Combined together, these technologies enable popular capacity points and are designed to increase reliability.

Technology for reliability

Load/unload head ramps

Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motors Differential read channel

Internal thermal monitor

Drive Fitness Test (DFT)

S.M.A.R.T Self Test

True-Track Servo

No-ID sector formatting

Fluid Dynamic Bearing motors provide improved acoustics over traditional ball bearing spindle motors. FDB motors will continue to be used more frequently in hard disk drive designs, particularly in applications requiring very high spindle speeds, high areal densities, and low acoustic noise.

The Hitachi Deskstar180GXP matches the drive capacity and performance guidelines for Microsoft Windows XP- (40GB minimum and 7200rpm performance).