Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1TB 2.5" Hard Drive

Product info

Toshiba Storage Device Division offers a line of 5,400 RPM 2.5-inch HDDs in a new slim design optimized for industry-leading storage applications. The latest HDD series, MQ01ABDxxx, provides a wide capacity range from 250 GB to 1TB in a 9.5-millimeter-high design with only maximum 2 platters.

The advanced MQ01ABDxxx targets markets such as portable multimedia and gaming notebooks, mobile workstations and other capacity-hungry applications like external HDDs. In addition, the drives also feature very good power efficiency value of 0.00055 for the 1TB model. Due to the “Silent-Seek” technology featured in these drives, the HDDs are extremely quiet: Ultra-silent single-platter drives boast acoustic specifications of 19dBA (seek) and 17dBA (idle) making them almost indistinguishable to the human hear.

With its compact size and best-in class specifications, the SATA MQ01ABDxxx series is the perfect choice for use in devices where a combination of sleek form factor and high capacity capabilities are essential.

As with all Toshiba HDDs, the complete series is halogen-free and RoHS compatible, therefore, exceptionally environmentally friendly.

Product Specifications

The following are the specifications, as provided on the Toshiba website:

Features

• Model: MQ01ABD100
• Formatted capacity: 1,000 GByte
• Form factor: 2.5 inch
• Interface type: Serial ATA
• Supported interface standards: ATA-8, Serial ATA 3.0
• Shock detection: Shock sensor circuit
• S.M.A.R.T.: The SMART command set is supported.

Physical parameters

• Number of platters: 2
• Number of heads: 4
• Bytes/sector (Host): 512
• Bytes/sector (Disk): 4096 kByte

Access times

• Average seek time: 12 ms
• Maximum seek time: 22 ms
• Track-to-track seek time: 2 ms

Transfer rates

• SATA (Host): max. 3.0 Gbit/s

Rotational speed

• Rotational speed: 5,400 rpm

Buffer

• Buffer size: 8,192 kByte

Reliability specifications

• MTTF: 600,000 Hours
• Seek error rate: 1 error per 10^6 seeks
• Non-recoverable error rate: 1 error per 10^14 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: 9.5 mm
• Drive depth: 100 mm
• Drive weight: 0.117 kg
• Drive orientation: The drive can be installed in all axes (6 directions)

Temperature

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

Humidity

• Operating: From 8 % to 90 %
• Non-operating: From 8 % to 90 %

Vibration

• Operating (Maximum): 1 G, with 5 - 500 Hz
• Non-operating (Maximum): 5 G, with 15 - 500 Hz

Shock

• Operating (Maximum): 400 G, with 2 ms half sine wave
• Non-operating (Maximum): 900 G, with 1 ms half sine wave
• Shipping (Maximum): 0.7 m free drop with no unrecoverable error. Applied shocks in each direction of the drive’s three mutually perpendicular axes, one axis at a time (Packed in Toshiba’s original shipping package).

Altitude

• Operating: From -300 m to 3,000 m
• Non-operating: From -300 m to 12,000 m

Acoustic noise

• Idle mode (Disk spinning): Max. 23 dB
• Random seek: Max. 24 dB