DATA SHEET
Travelstar® Z7K500.B
2.5- INCH MOBILE 7 200 RPM 7 MM HARD D ISK DR IVES
Highlights
• 500GB1 of capacity
• 7mm z-height, 2.5-inch form factor
• 7200 RPM performance
• Advanced Format, industry
standard 4K sector size
• 512-byte emulation
• 6Gb/s SATA interface
Applications/
Environments
• Notebook and ultra-portable PCs
• Compact desktop PCs
• External storage
• Gaming consoles
High-Performance 500GB for Mobile Applications
Designed with aordable performance in mind, the Travelstar® Z7K500.B delivers the
right mix of capacity and speed for thin and light mobile applications. This 7mm 2.5-inch
mobile drive is oered with 500GB of capacity points and supports slim mobile system
designs, but is also compatible with most standard 9.5mm bays. With an operational
speed of 7200 RPM, the Z7K500.B is a perfect mainstream storage choice for mobile
devices, external storage and gaming consoles.
Innovations to Support Mobile Storage
In a notebook drive, silence is golden. Noise reducing technologies in the Travelstar
Z7K500.B make it one of the quietest mobile drives on the market. State-of-the-art
seeking algorithms and advanced power management features ensure low power
consumption for longer battery life and more “unplugged” time on your portable device.
When you need capacity and performance, trust your data to Travelstar hard drives,
designed for mobile computing.
HGST Quality and Service
HGST’s mobile hard drives are designed to high quality standards and contain ieldproven components. HGST provides worldwide technical support and integration
services to enable global customers to bring their products to market quickly.
500GB
7200 RPM | SATA 6Gb/s
Features and Beneits
Feature / Function Beneits
Capacity 500GB storage
Form Factor 2.5- inch HD D with sli m 7mm thickn ess Compact size supports portable designs for mobile computing
Reliability
Acoustics Quiet operation
Performance Up to 1304 Mb/s media transfe r rate Fast downl oads an d excelle nt application p erformance
Interface SATA 6 Gb/s Fast data throughout
* Capaci ties may not be com bined. Numbe r of songs are bas ed on MP3 format for 4 mi nutes per song , 128 kbps bit rate and 11:1 co mpression ratio. S D
video ba sed on 480i/24 an d H.264 comp ression (~3.6G B/hr). HD video base d on 1080p/24 and H .264 compre ssion (~25GB/hr). Game s based on
30GB in stall size. Actual s torage may vary dep ending on com pression, bit ra tes, frame rates and sys tem software ins tallation.
• 400 G operating sho ck
• 1000G non-operating shock
Store up to 125,000 songs, 12 5 hours of S D video, 20 hours
of Full HD, or 15 g ames*
Helps provide protection a gainst rough han dling in a mobile
environment
Richer audio-listening experience for music, movies and
games
DATA SHEET
Travelstar® Z7K500.B
2.5- INCH MOBILE 7 200 RPM 7 MM HARD D ISK DR IVES
Speciications
Model / Part No.
Coniguration
Interface SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity (GB)
Sector s ize (bytes)
Performance
Data buer (MB)
Rotational spe ed (RPM) 7200
Sustai ned dat a transfe r rate (MB/s) 163
Media transfer rate (Mbits/s, max) 1304
Latency average (ms) 4.2
Interface transfer rate (M B/s) 600
Seek tim e, average (typical) ms (read)
1
2
3
4
Reliability
Load/Unload cyc le 600,000
Power
Requirement +5V DC (+ -5 %)
Dissipation (typical)
Startup (W, peak , max)
Seek (W, avg.) 2.1
Read/Write (W, avg.) 2.0
Low power idle (W, avg.) 0.85
Standby (W, avg.) 0. 25
Sleep 0.25
Physical size
Height (mm, max) 7
Width (mm) 69.85 (+/- 0.2 5)
Length (mm) 100.2 0 (+/- 0.25)
Weight (typ ical, g) 92
Environmental (operating)
Shock (half-sine wave) 40 0G/2ms
Ambient temperature 0° to 60° C
Environmental (non-operating)
Shock (half-sine wave) 1000G/2 ms
Ambient temperature -40° to 6 5° C
Acoustics (A-weighted sound power)
Idle (typ ical, B els) 2.3
Seek (ty pical, B els) 2.5
HTS725050B7E630 / 1W10098
500
512e
32
12
5.5
How to rea d the Travelstar mod el number
HTS7250 50A7E63 0 = 500G B, SATA 6Gb/s
H = HGST
T = Travelstar
S = Standard
72 = 720 0 RPM
50 = Full capa city — 50 0GB
50 = Capacity this model , 50 = 500 GB
B = Generation co de
7 = 7mm z-height
E6 = SATA 6Gb/s with 512 emulation
3 = 32MB cache
0 = N o encr yption
1
One GB is e qual to one billio n bytes when referrin g to hard drive
capaci ty. Accessible c apacity will va ry dependin g on the operatin g
environment and formatting.
2
Advance d Format drive: 4K phys ical sectors with 512 by te emulation
3
Portio n of buer used for i rmware
4
Excludes command overhead
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