The Hitachi Deskstar series continues their long standing tradition of performance and quality. The 7K500 range combines both new and proven technologies to boost performance, capacity and reliability. With Hitachi's standardized features their desktop solutions are given fast transfer rates, low power and quiet acoustics. These features mean that the Hitachis Deskstar 7K500 is ideal for a host of requirements including PC systems. SATA-Entry servers, personal video recorders and other non-PC computing requirements.

Configuration:
Interface: Serial ATA-2 3.0Gb/s
Capacity: 500GB
Data heads (physical): 5/10

Performance:
Data buffer: 16 MB
Rotational speed (RPM): 7,200
Media transfer rate (max. Mbits/sec): 817
Interface transfer rate (max. MB/sec): 300
Sustained data rate (MB/sec): 64.8 -31 (zone 0-29)
Seek time average, (read, typical (MS)): 8.5

Reliability:
Error rate (non-recoverable): 1 in 10E14
Start/stops (at 40° C): 50,000

Acoustic:
Idle (Bels): 3.1

Power:
Requirement: +5 VDC (+/- 5%), +12 VDC (+10%/-8%)
Dissipation
Start-up current: (max. A): 2.0 (+12V) & 1.2 (+5V)
Idle (W): 9.6

Physical size:
Height (mm): 25.4
Width (mm): 101.6
Depth (mm): 146
Weight (max. g): 700