Hitachi HTS726060M9AT00 Specifications
Designed for computing excellence: Industry-leading capacity
and performance in a 2.5” hard drive.
Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 2.5-inch
hard disk drive
Highlights
Capacity of 60GB, 7200 RPM, ATA-6 hard disk drive
Travelstar 7K60 provides areal densities of up to 50Gbits/sq. inch,
yielding up to 30 GB of capacity per disk
Leverages the latest laminated Antiferromagnetically-coupled
(AFC) media, known as “pixie dust”
Hitachi GST, first drive maker to implement the new Femto Slider:
utilized for improved shock resistance, disk storage capacity, and
reduced power consumption
Provides an operational shock rating of up to 200Gs at (2ms)
Leading-edge technology
The Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 is a 9.5mm
high, 7200 RPM, 2.5-inch mobile hard disk
drive. The Travelstar 7K60 is the 28th
generation addition of a long heritage of
Travelstar mobile drives.
Designed with combined technology
including; Antiferromagnetically-coupled
(AFC) technology, Fluid Dynamic Bearing
(FDB) motor technology, Giant
Magnetoresistive (GMR) heads, load/
unload head technology, Enhanced
Adaptive Battery Life ExtenderTM (ABLE)
3.0 and an ATA/100 interface provides for
a cutting-edge design. The Travelstar 7K60
pushes performance, capacity, power
management, and exceptional quietness
to provide a quality, high-performance
mobile hard disk drive for today’s demand-
ing notebook and beyond systems.
New Areal Density Technology
Advancements
Antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC)
media technology is incorporated into the
Travelstar 7K60 to achieve an areal density
of up to 50Gbits/sq.inch to be written on
each disk. This feat is achieved by adding
another layer or “pixie dust” - or essentially
an additional layer of ruthenium/magnetic
layer to create a five-layer sandwich called
laminated “pixie-dust”. These additional lay-
ers bring even higher thermal stability to the
media, allowing data recording at ultra-high
densities while continuing to maintain data-
integrity.
One of the key contributors to achieving
demanding areal density requirements has
been the reduction of the size of the slider
by 3x, and the mass of the slider by over 30x
(from 1980 - 2002). Introducing the indus-
try-leading Femto Slider in the Travelstar
7K60, a reduced slider in both size and
mass reduction. Hitachi GST is the first drive
maker to incorporate the new Femto slider
product in its hard disk drives.
Implementing the new Femto Slider has
resulted in; improved shock resistance,
reduced power consumption and
improved disk storage capacity. The
reduced slider size improves the response
of the slider to disk waviness, thus reducing
the flying height variation of the slider
in the disk drive. These advantages cou-
pled with an integrated slider-suspension
design, have been instrumental to achiev-
ing a 10x reduction in flying height over this
same period.
Performance and reliability
The Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 series of hard
disk drives utilizes proven storage technolo-
gies such as TrueTrack Servo, Drive Fitness
TestTM (DFT), Self-Monitoring Analysis and
Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) to help
maintain high-performance and fast seek
times at high environment temperatures.
Hitachi family of Travelstar 7K60 hard disk drives specifications
Product name Travelstar 7K60
Model name HTS726060M9AT00
Configuration
Interface ATA-6
Capacity (GB) 60
Sector size (bytes) 512
Recording zones 16
Data heads 4
Disks 2
Max. areal density (Gbits/sq.inch) 50
Performance
Data buffer (MB)1 8
Rotational speed (rpm) 7,200
Latency (average ms) 4.2
Max. media transfer rate (Mbits/sec) 518
Max. interface transfer rate (MB/sec) 100MB/sec Ultra DMA mode-5
16.6MB/sec PIO mode-4
Seek time (ms)
Average (typical) 10
Track to track (typical) 1.0
Full stroke (typical) 18
Reliability
Error rate (non-recoverable) < 1 per 1013 bits transferred
Load/unload cycle 300,000
Power
Requirement +5VDC(±5%)
Dissipation (typical)
Star tup (max. peak) 5.5 W
Seek (average) 2.6 W
Read (average) 2.5 W
Write (average) 2.5 W
Performance idle (average) 2.0 W
Active idle (average) 1.3 W
Low power idle (average) 0.85 W
Standby (average) 0.25 W
Sleep 0.1 W
Power consumption efficiency (watts/GB) 0.014
Physical size
Height (mm) 9.5
Width (mm) 70
Depth (mm) 100
Weight (g) 115
Environmental characteristics
Operating
Ambient temperature 5° to 55° C
Relative humidity (non-condensing) 8% - 90%
Maximum wet bulb (non-condensing) 29.4° C
Shock (half sine wave) 200G/2ms
Vibration
Random (RMS) 0.67G (5 - 500Hz)
Sine wave 1.0G (5 - 500Hz)
Non-operating
Ambient temp -40° to 65° C
Relative humidity (non-condensing) 5% - 95%
Maximum wet bulb (non-condensing) 40° C
Shock (half sine wave) 1,000G/1ms
Vibration (sine wave) 5.0G (22 - 500Hz)
Acoustics (A-Weighted Sound Power (Bels))
Idle (typical) 2.7
Op (typical) 3.3
Idle (maximum) 3.0
Op (maximum) 3.5
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