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Highlights
Product Description
• G-Force Protection™ technology can protect your data even if you drop your laptop
• Seagate® Smart Align™ technology for a simple, utility-free transition to the new Advanced Format 4K sector standard
• Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) models, including FIPS 140-2 Validated SED for government-grade security
• Highest available notebook performance increases productivity in all environments.
• SATA 3Gb/s interface with Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and command ordering
• 16-MB cache on every capacity
• Green features:
– Leverages Seagate laptop power management technology, delivering the lowest-power 500-GB 7200-RPM laptop hard drive yet
– Utilizes ramp load features which remove the head from the disk during idle periods, improving idle power consumption and adding to the durability of the drive
• Optional G-Force Protection feature adds another layer of robustness for road warriors.
• QuietStep™ technology enables ultra-quiet load/unload acoustics
• State-of-the-art cache and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms
• Fluid dynamic bearing motor for quiet operation
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring and reporting
Best-Fit Applications
• High-performance and mainstream laptop PCs
• Small form factor PCs
• Workstations
• Non-mission-critical blade servers and industrial applications
| Drive | ST9500423AS |
| Formatted GB | 500 |
| Guaranteed Sectors | 976,773,168 |
| Bytes per sector (logical/physical) | 512/4K |
| Physical read/write heads | 4/3 |
| Discs | 2 |
| Cache (MB) | 16 |
| Spndle Speed (RPM) | 7200 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 4.2 |
| Height | 9.5mm (0.370 in) |
| Width | 69.85mm (2.75in) |
| Length | 100.35mm (3.951in) |
| Weight | 115g (.254 lb) |
| Track-to-Track seek time (ms) | 1.5 |
| Average seek, read (ms) | 11.0 |
| Average seek, write (ms) | 13 |
| Ambient temperature | 0°C to 60 °C (operating) -40°C to 70°C (nonoperating) |
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Highlights
Product Description
• G-Force Protection™ technology can protect your data even if you drop your laptop
• Seagate® Smart Align™ technology for a simple, utility-free transition to the new Advanced Format 4K sector standard
• Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) models, including FIPS 140-2 Validated SED for government-grade security
• Highest available notebook performance increases productivity in all environments.
• SATA 3Gb/s interface with Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and command ordering
• 16-MB cache on every capacity
• Green features:
– Leverages Seagate laptop power management technology, delivering the lowest-power 500-GB 7200-RPM laptop hard drive yet
– Utilizes ramp load features which remove the head from the disk during idle periods, improving idle power consumption and adding to the durability of the drive
• Optional G-Force Protection feature adds another layer of robustness for road warriors.
• QuietStep™ technology enables ultra-quiet load/unload acoustics
• State-of-the-art cache and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms
• Fluid dynamic bearing motor for quiet operation
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring and reporting
Best-Fit Applications
• High-performance and mainstream laptop PCs
• Small form factor PCs
• Workstations
• Non-mission-critical blade servers and industrial applications
| Drive | ST9500423AS |
| Formatted GB | 500 |
| Guaranteed Sectors | 976,773,168 |
| Bytes per sector (logical/physical) | 512/4K |
| Physical read/write heads | 4/3 |
| Discs | 2 |
| Cache (MB) | 16 |
| Spndle Speed (RPM) | 7200 |
| Average Latency (ms) | 4.2 |
| Height | 9.5mm (0.370 in) |
| Width | 69.85mm (2.75in) |
| Length | 100.35mm (3.951in) |
| Weight | 115g (.254 lb) |
| Track-to-Track seek time (ms) | 1.5 |
| Average seek, read (ms) | 11.0 |
| Average seek, write (ms) | 13 |
| Ambient temperature | 0°C to 60 °C (operating) -40°C to 70°C (nonoperating) |
What's in the box
Warranty
