Text preview for : Hitachi Travelstar HTS7200101G9AT00.PDF part of Hitachi Travelstar HTS7200101G9AT00 Hitachi disk Hitachi Travelstar HTS7200101G9AT00.PDF
Back to : Hitachi Travelstar HTS720 | Home
PlanetX64
Hitachi Travelstar HTS7200101G9AT00 2.5" 7200 RPM HardDrive Evaluation
Contributed by Sean Kalinich
Thursday, 02 March 2006
Last Updated Thursday, 02 March 2006
Product: Hitachi Travelstar HTS7200101G9AT00
Author: Sean Kalinich
Date: February 12th 2006
Price: $190.00
Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Spelling and Grammatical Editors: Ian King and Sean May
Introduction:
Hitachi has been around for almost 100 years. Founded in 1910 by Namihei Odaira as an electrical repair shop,
Hitachi’s first product was a 5 horse power electric motor. Since that time, Hitachi has always been a leader in
electronics and has produced many new and cutting edge products.
(for a complete timeline of Hitachi visit HItachi.com ).
For 50 of their 97 Years, Hitachi’s Global Storage division has produced some of the industry’s leading
storage devices. In 2002 Hitachi bought IBM’s hard drive division for an estimated $2 billion dollars and
proceeded to turn around the IBM hard drive line.
Hitachi’s Deskstar, Ultrastar, and Travelstar drives are some of the best you can buy.
Today we take a look at Hitachi’s Travelstar HTS7200101G9AT00 a 2.5” 100GB 7200 RPM hard drive.
Hitachi is aiming to combine the best of storage and speed for laptop systems.
Let’s see how close to the target they get. {mospagebreak title=Specifications} Specifications: 4.5 out of 5
Interface ATA-6
Capacity (GB) 100 / 80 / 60
Sector size (Bytes) 512
Recording zones 24
Data heads (physical) 4 / 4 / 3
Data disks 2 / 2 / 2
Max. areal density (Gbits/sq. inch) 81 / 66 / 66
Performance:
Data buffer (MB) 8
Rotational speed (RPM) 7200
Latency average (ms) 4.2
Media transfer rate (Mbits/sec, max) 629 / 561 / 561
Interface transfer rate (MB/sec, max) 100 Ultra DMA mode-5
1.5Gb/sec 16.6 PIO mode-4
Seek time (typical)
Average (ms) 10 R / 11 W
Track to track (ms) 1 R / 1.2 W
Full stroke (ms) 18 R / 19 W
Reliability:
Load/Unload cycle 600,000
Power:
Requirement +5VDC (+-5%)
Dissipation (Typical)
Startup (peak, max.) 5.5W NC
Seek 2.3W 2.7W
Read (avg.) 2.0W 2.3W
Write (avg.) 2.0W 2.3W
Active idle (avg.) 1.1W 1.2W
Low power idle (avg.) 0.85W 0.9W
Standby (avg.) 0.2W 0.25W
Sleep 0.1W NC Physical size:
Height (mm) 9.5
Width (mm) 70
Depth (mm) 100
Weight - typical (g) 115
Environmental characteristics:
Operating:
http://www.planetx64.com Powered by Joomla! Generated: 22 September, 2008, 02:42
PlanetX64
Ambient temperature 5