Performance specifications 

• Rotational speed 7,200 RPM (nominal)
• Buffer size 64 MB
• Load/unload cycles 600,000 minimum 

Transfer rates

• Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) 3 Gb/s (Max) 

Physical specifications 

• Formatted capacity 2,000,398 MB
• Capacity 2 TB
• Interface SATA 3 Gb/s
• User sectors per drive 3,907,029,168 

Physical dimensions - English

• Height 1.028 Inches 
• Depth 5.787 Inches 
• Width 4.00 Inches 
• Weight 1.66 Pounds 

Physical dimensions - Metric 

• Height 26.1 mm 
• Depth 147 mm 
• Width 101.6 mm 
• Weight 0.75 kg 

Environmental specifications

Shock 

• Operating Shock (Read) 30G, 2 ms 
• Non-operating Shock 300G, 2 ms 

Acoustics

• Idle Mode 29 dBA (average) 
• Seek Mode 0 34 dBA (average)
• Seek Mode 3 30 dBA (average) 

Temperature (English)

• Operating 41° F to 131° F
• Non-operating -40° F to 158° F 

Temperature (Metric)

• Operating 5° C to 55° C
• Non-operating -40° C to 70° C 

Electrical specifications

Current requirements 12 VDC 

• Read/Write 675 mA 
• Idle 510 mA 
• Standby 45 mA 
• Sleep 45 mA 

Current requirements 5 VDC 

• Read/Write 525 mA 
• Idle 405 mA 
• Standby 185 mA 
• Sleep 185 mA 

Power dissipation 

• Read/Write 10.70 Watts 
• Idle 8.10 Watts 
• Standby 1.50 Watts 
• Sleep 1.50 Watts 

As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes.
Total accessible capacity varies depending on the operating environment.
As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes.
As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, megabit per second (Mb/s) = one million bits per second and giga bit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.

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