Hard drive
| SMART technology |
Y |
| Track to track seek time (read/write) |
2 ms |
| Hard disk average seek time |
12 ms |
| Hard drive size |
2.5 " |
| Hard disk number of heads |
2 |
| Hard drive capacity |
500 GB |
| Hard drive speed |
5400 RPM |
| Hard drive interface |
Serial ATA II |
| Drive device, buffer size |
8 MB |
| Bytes per sector |
4096 |
Power
| Power consumption (read) |
1.5 W |
| Power consumption (write) |
1.5 W |
| Power consumption (PowerSave) |
0.55 W |
Other features
| Seek time |
22 ms |
| Acoustic pressure emissions |
19 dB |
| Internal |
Y |
Operational conditions
| Non-operating altitude |
-300 - 12000 m |
| Operating altitude |
-300 - 3000 m |
| Operating shock |
400 G |
| Non-operating vibration |
5 G |
| Operating vibration |
1 G |
| Non-operating shock |
900 G |
500GB, 6.35 cm (2.5 ") , 8MB, 5400RPM, SATA, SMART
Toshiba Storage Device Division offers a line of 5,400 RPM 2.5-inch HDDs in a new slim design optimized for industry-leading storage applications. The latest HDD series, MQ01ABDxxx, provides a wide capacity range from 250 GB to 1TB in a 9.5-millimeter-high design with only maximum 2 platters.
The advanced MQ01ABDxxx targets markets such as portable multimedia and gaming notebooks, mobile workstations and other capacity-hungry applications like external HDDs. In addition, the drives also feature very good power efficiency value of 0.00055 for the 1TB model. Due to the “Silent-Seek” technology featured in these drives, the HDDs are extremely quiet: Ultra-silent single-platter drives boast acoustic specifications of 19dBA (seek) and 17dBA (idle) making them almost indistinguishable to the human hear.
With its compact size and best-in class specifications, the SATA MQ01ABDxxx series is the perfect choice for use in devices where a combination of sleek form factor and high capacity capabilities are essential.
As with all Toshiba HDDs, the complete series is halogen-free and RoHS compatible, therefore, exceptionally environmentally friendly.
