Hard drive
| Read seek |
8.5 ms |
| Hard drive capacity |
500 GB |
| Hard drive speed |
7200 RPM |
| Hard drive interface |
Serial ATA II |
| Hard drive size |
3.5 " |
| Drive device, buffer size |
16 MB |
| Hard drive interface transfer rate |
3 Gbit/s |
| Start/stop cycles |
50000 |
Operational conditions
| Non-operating vibration |
1.04 G |
| Operating vibration |
0.67 G |
| Non-operating shock |
225 G |
Other features
| Sustained data rate |
64.8 MB/s |
Deskstar 7K500, 500GB, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 8.89 cm (3.5 ") , 7200rpm
Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) Feature
The Deskstar E7K500 hard drive is optimized for use in nearline/low duty cycle enterprise environments with capabilities such as Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS), which maintains the hard drive’s performance in high rotational vibration environments where multiple drives reside in a single enclosure.
Advanced Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s Support
- > 3.0 Gb/s (300 MB/s) interface data rate
- > NCQ (native command queuing)
- > Staggered (delayed) spin-up
- > Hot-swap capability
The E7K500 provides all of these enhancements to enable faster data access, better power management to the system and higher performance.
Hitachi 5-year Warranty Provides Superior Quality and Service
The Hitachi Deskstar E7K500 extends the company’s long-standing tradition of performance
and reliability leadership. Hitachi’s enterprise features for storage applications enable high capacity, fast transfers, low power and high reliability. These features combine to make the Deskstar E7K500 ideal for nearline/low duty cycle, disk-to-disk back-up and other enterprise storage solutions.
The Deskstar E7K500 carries the industry’s most comprehensive 5-year warranty with
product replacement values throughout the life of the warranty that exceed those
available from other hard drive suppliers.
