15,000 RPM
3.5-Inch Enterprise Hard Disk Drives
State-of-the-art hard disk drives for
demanding enterprise applications
MBA3073
MBA3147
MBA3300
Over 40 years ago, Toshiba was manufacturing 14-inch hard
disk drives for mainframes. Today we’re shipping some of the
fastest enterprise 3.5-inch hard disk drives in the industry.
Leveraging our technology expertise and heritage, we deliver
reliable, high-capacity hard disk drives for your customer’s most
demanding Enterprise applications.
Toshiba 3.5-inch 15,000 RPM enterprise hard disk drives
feature a host of innovations. e 300GB1, 4-platter
configuration provides low power consumption, high
reliability, and faster internal data rates. Interface options
include 3 Gb/sec SAS, 68/80-pin U320 SCSI and
4 Gb/sec Fibre Channel.
ese qualities make Toshiba hard disk drives ideal for today’s
most demanding Enterprise environments. A variety of product
offerings with industry leading performance provide systems
engineers with greater flexibility when designing rack and
tower servers, storage arrays, RAID systems and
digital video systems.
15,000 RPM spindle speed and storage capacities
up to 300GB
Maximum internal data-transfer rate of 179 MB/sec
3 Gb/sec SAS interface. Also offered with 4 Gb/sec
Fibre Channel and Ultra320 SCSI interfaces
1,400,000 hours MTBF for high reliability
Ideal for high performance and high-bandwidth
applications
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15,000 RPM
3.5-Inch Enterprise Hard Disk Drives
MBA30732 MBA31472 MBA3300
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Series Overview
Drive Capacity 73.5GB1 147GB1 300GB
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Drive Interface Dual Port SAS (RC), SCA-2 80Pin (NC), 68Pin Wide (NP), Dual Port FCAL (FC)
Number of Platters (disks) 1 2 4
Number of Data Heads 2 4 8
RoHS Compliant Yes
Transfer Rate to Host SAS: 3 Gb/sec, SCSI: 320 MB/sec, FCAL: 4 Gb/sec
Performance
Track-to-track Seek 0.2ms (Read), 0.4ms (Write)
Average Seek Time 3.4ms (Read), 3.9ms (Write)
Rotational Speed 15,000 RPM
Average Latency 2ms
Buffer Size SCSI: 8MB, SAS/FC: 16MB
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Power Requirements
Voltage 5V (+/-5%), 12V (+/-5%)
Spin up (start) Power 12V (+/-5%) @ 2.5A (peak), 3.0A (peak < 100 us), 5V (+/-5%) @ 0.8A
Read/Write Power SAS: 17.7 watts, SCSI: 18.5 watts, FC watts
Active Idle Power SAS: 12.8 watts, SCSI: 12.4 watts, FC: 13.4 watts
Physical Size
Dimensions (W) x (D) x (H) 101.6 mm (4”) x 146 mm (5.74”) x 25.4 mm (1”)
Weight 800 g
Environmental
Temp - Operating 5° to 55°C
Temp - Non-Operating -40° to 70°C
Humidity - Operating 5% to 95% RH
Humidity - Non-Operating 5% to 95% RH
Vibration - Operating (0.6mm) 5 to 20 Hz / (1.0G) 20 to 300 Hz
Vibration - Non-Operating (3.1 mm) 5 to 20 Hz / (5.0G) 20 to 300 Hz
Shock - Operating (65G) 2ms
Shock - Non-Operating (250G) 1ms
Altitude - Operating 3,048 m
Altitude - Non-Operating 12,192 m
Acoustics
Acoustics (idle) 3.6 bels or less
Acoustics (seek) 4.5 bels
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One Gigabyte (1 GB) means 109 = 1,000,000,000 bytes using powers of 10. A computer
operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of
1 GB = 230 = 1,073,741,824 bytes, and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage
capacity will also be less if the computer includes one or more pre-installed operating systems,
pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
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This drive was developed and originally sold by Fujitsu and still bears the Fujitsu name. As
of October 1, 2009 any orders for this product will be sold by Toshiba America Information
Systems, Inc. and will use the original Fujitsu Part Number.
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A small portion of buffer memory is used for drive firmware control.
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accuracy of the information provided herein, product specifications, configurations, prices, system/
component/options availability are all subject to change without notice.
© 2009 Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
MBA3XXX 10/2009