 | Performance |
 | Rotational Speed: 7,200 RPM (nominal) |
 | Buffer Size: 8 MB |
 | Average Latency: 4.20 ms (nominal) |
 | Start/Stop Cycles: 50,000 minimum |
 | Seek Times |
 | Read Seek Time: 8.9 ms |
 | Write Seek Time: 10.9 ms (average) |
 | Track-To-Track Seek Time: 2.0 ms (average) |
 | Full Stroke Seek: 21.0 ms (average) |
 | Transfer Rates |
 | Buffer To Host (Serial ATA): 300 MB/s (Max) |
 | Buffer To Disk: 972 Mbits/s (Max) |
 | Physical |
 | Formatted Capacity: 500,107 MB |
 | Capacity: 500 GB |
 | Interface: SATA 300 MB/s |
 | User Sectors Per Drive: 976,773,168 |
 | Dimensions |
 | Height: 1.028 Inches (Max) |
 | Length: 5.787 Inches (Max) |
 | Width: 4.00 Inches (+/- 0.010 inch) |
 | Weight: 1.39 Pounds |
 | Shock |
 | Operating Shock (Read): 65G, 2 ms |
 | Non-operating Shock: 350G, 2 ms |
 | Acoustics |
 | Idle Mode: 28 dBA (average) |
 | Seek Mode: 0 26 dBA (average) |
 | Seek Mode: 3 29 dBA (average) |
 | Temperature |
 | Operating: 32 F to 140 F |
 | Non-operating: -40 F to 149 F |
 | Humidity |
 | Operating: 5-95% RH non-condensing |
 | Non-operating: 5-95% RH non-condensing |
 | Altitude |
 | Operating: -1,000 feet to 10,000 feet |
 | Non-operating: -1,000 feet to 40,000 feet |