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Industry-leading capacity, performance, and acoustics

IBM Travelstar 48GH, 30GN, and 15GN 2.5-inch hard disk drives

Highlights

The newest members of the

IBM Travelstar family of hard disk drives are the first in the industry to implement Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor technology for industry-leading idle and operating acoustic performance. In addition,these newTravelstar models support the fast Ultra DMA mode-5 interface for transfer rates of up to100 MB/sec.

The IBM Travelstar 48GH— representing the third generation of 5400 RPM models in the indus- try—is the highest capacity and the highest performance mobile drive in the industry with a capacity of 48 GB and a maximum media data transfer rate of 241Mbits/sec for unsurpassed capacity and performance.

The IBM Travelstar 30GN and 15GN hard drives provide areal densities up to 25.7 Gbits/sq. in., yielding up to 15 GB of capacity per disk, combined with an industry-leading operational shock rating of 180 G/2 ms, which makes these drives

well suited for today’s most demanding users.

Leading-edge technology

IBM continues its tradition of mobile storage leadership with the IBM Travelstar* 48GH, 30GN, and 15GN hard drives. The Travelstar 48GH—representing the thirdgeneration family of 5400 RPM mobile drives—is the industry’s first 48 GB notebook hard disk drive employing four disks in a12.5 mm high design.

The innovative hard drive design combines Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor technology, an ATA-100 interface, IBM giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology, Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML) digital channel, a head load/unload feature, and Enhanced Adaptive Battery Life Extender* (ABLE) 3.0. This design provides the exceptional quietness, storage capacity, performance, power management, quality, and reliability required by today’s notebook systems.

As a result, the new IBM Travelstar drives are well suited for demanding, high-capacity Internet, digital audio, video streaming, and real-time multimedia applications—whether users are in the office or on the road.

Performance and reliability

The IBM Travelstar 48GH, 30GN, and 15GN hard drives use established IBM technology such as TrueTrack Servo, IBM

Drive Fitness Test* (DFT), Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART), as well as a thermistor, an adaptive control device that helps maintain high performance and fast seek times at high environmental temperatures.

Advanced mobile systems

With these new drives, IBM has redefined state-of-the-art storage for mobile computing. The reduced acoustics, high speeds and capacities of IBM Travelstar drives support superior digital content creation capabilities, higher quality digital audio and video, and significantly faster processing for data-intensive multimedia and Internet applications.

By using one of the new Travelstar drives in a laptop system, you can unchain your multimedia studio from the desktop, enabling high-end multimedia creativity as mobile as your imagination.

IBM quality, support, and service

The new IBM Travelstar mobile hard drives share common components to provide users and manufacturers with superior-quality hard drives backed by a three-year warranty and IBM technical support and services.

IBM Travelstar 48GH:12.5 mm, 5400 RPM,	IBM Travelstar 30GN: 9.5 mm, 4200 RPM,	IBM Travelstar15GN: 9.5 mm, 4200 RPM,
48 GB ATA-5 hard drive1	30 GB ATA-5 hard drive1	15 GB ATA-5 hard drive1

IBMTravelstar hard disk drive characteristics

Feature	Benefit
First 48 GB mobile hard drive and the third-	IBMTravelstar 48GH has the industry-leading capacity and performance to
generation 5400 RPM model in the industry	enable mobile users to work with a new range of emerging storage-intensive
	applications.
Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motors	IBM Travelstar 48GH, 30GN, and15GN all feature Fluid Dynamic Bearing
on all models	motor technology for industry-leading idle and operating acoustic
	performance.
Fast Ultra-DMA100 2.5-inch mobile	IBM Travelstar 48GH, 30GN, and 15GN all feature industry-leading data
hard drives	transfer rates to help ensure ultimate performance.
High max areal density of 25.7 Gbits/sq. in.	IBM Travelstar 30GN and15GN maximize areal density to enable
resulting in up to15 GB of capacity per disk	more data storage per disk in standard, compact packages.
Industry-leading operating shock rating	IBM Travelstar 30GN and 15GN provide exceptional ruggedness to help
(180 G/2 ms) for a 2.5-inch mobile hard drive	withstand shock during read/write operations.