Hard drive
| Average latency |
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 |
Operational conditions
| Non-operating vibration |
1.04 G |
| Operating vibration |
0.67 G |
Other features
| Sustained data rate |
64.8 MB/s |
| Internal |
Y |
Deskstar 7K500 500GB, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 8.89 cm (3.5 ") , 7200rpm, 16MB
The Hitachi 7K500 offers 500 GB, the industry's largest available capacity for high-end media center PCs, DVRs, nearline storage and other enterprise ATA applications. The SATA version of the drive ships with a large 16 MB buffer to deliver breakthrough performance for bandwidth-intensive applications. In addition to the complete set of SATA II features, the drive includes Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS), a technology used to ensure drive performance in high rotational vibration environments, where there are multiple drives in a single enclosure.