The MQ01ABF series offers up to 500GB in the slim 7mm height form factor. The 5,400 RPM SATA HDD has been engineered to deliver high performance, combined with low energy consumption efficiency in Ultrabooks and high-end multimedia devices with data intensive applications.

Forming part of a series of advanced format technology HDDs, the MQ01ABFxxx is developed to deliver a higher internal transfer rate with industry-leading recording density, making it ideally suited to media intensive applications.

The new family of sleek HDDs features the following products; the MQ01ABF050, the MQ01ABF032, the MQ01ABF025, all with capacities of 500GB, 320GB and 250GB respectively. All drives are free from halogen, antimony trioxide and red phosphorus.

Specification

• Model - MQ01ABF025 / MQ01ABF032 / MQ01ABF050

Features

• Formatted capacity - 250 GB / 320 GB / 500 GB
• Form factor - 2.5 inch
• Interface type - Serial ATA
• Supported interface standards - ATA-8 / Serial ATA 2.6 / Serial ATA 3.0

Physical parameters

• Number of platters - 1
• Number of heads - 2
• Bytes/sector (Host) - 512
• Bytes/sector (Disk) - 4096 kByte

Access times

• Maximum seek time - 22 ms
• Track-to-track seek time - 2 ms

Transfer rates

• SATA (Host) - 1.5/3.0 (SATA 2.6) / 6.0 (SATA 3.0) Gbit/s
• Rotational speed - 5,400 rpm

Buffer

• Buffer size - 8,192 kByte

Reliability specifications

• Loads/Unloads - 600000 Times
• Non-recoverable error rate - 1 error per 1014 seeks

Power consumption

• Start (Maximum) - 4.5 W
• Seek (Average) - 1.85 W
• Read (Average) - 1.5 W
• Write (Average) - 1.5 W
• Low-power idle (Average) - 0.55 W
• Sleep (Average) - 0.15 W
• Stand-by (Average) - 0.18 W

Power supply

• Supply voltage - +5 V (+/- 5 %)

Mechanical specifications

• Drive width - 69.85 mm
• Drive height - 7 mm
• Drive depth - 100 mm
• Drive weight - 0.092 kg

Temperature

• Operating - From 5 °C to 55 °C
• Non-operating - From -40 °C to 65 °C

Vibration

• Operating (Maximum) - 1 G
• Non-operating (Maximum) - 5 G

Shock

• Operating (Maximum) - 400 G, with 2 ms half sine wave
• Non-operating (Maximum) - 900 G, with 1 ms half sine wave

Acoustic noise

• Idle - Ave. 19 dB
• Seek - Ave. 21 dB