Seagate Momentus 5400.6 SATA 3Gb/s 250-GB Hard Drive

The 250-GB Seagate® Momentus® 5400.6 drive offers the best combination of performance, capacity, mobility and durability in a laptop hard drive to meet the demanding requirements of today’s notebook multimedia usage models. Able to withstand up to 1000 Gs of shock, this highly reliable 2.5-inch drive is perfect for notebook or external storage applications.

The Momentus family of 2.5-inch laptop drives offers innovative options and features, such as capacity up to 750GB, two different performance speeds, and three significant features.

Key Features and Benefits

• Seagate SmartAlignâ„¢ technology provides a transition to 4K sectors without the need for software utilities
• Seagate Self-Encrypting Drives deliver government-grade encryption without performance degredation – protecting your data where it lives. The FIPS 140-2* options are NIST government certified for both U.S. and Canadian usage with sensitive data.**
• Seagate G-Force Protectionâ„¢ technology can detect when your laptop is in a free-fall, swing the drive heads to a safe zone and keep the data safe.
• 7200-RPM and 5400-RPM speeds for customized performance and 8MB and 16MB cache size to enhance your application performance
• 640, 500, 320, 250 and 160GB models for 5400-RPM drives for high-capacity to entry-level and mainstream systems
• 750, 500, 320, 250 and 160GB models for 7200-RPM drives for high-capacity and high-performance systems

*FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification in progress.

**Not available in all countries.

Applications:

• High-performance laptops, workstations, gamer systems
• Mainstream laptops, netbooks and external storage enclosures
• Military and government laptops for sensitive data
• Corporate and commercial laptops
• Consumer solutions where robustness is a necessity
• Entry-level laptops and netbook systems

Specifications

Technical

• Model Number: ST9250315AS
• Interface: SATA 3Gb/s
• Cache: 8MB
• Capacity: 250GB
• Areal density (avg): 394Gb/in2
• Guaranteed Sectors: 488,397,168

Physical

• Height: 9.5mm (0.374 in)
• Width: 69.85mm (2.75 in)
• Length: 100.35mm (3.957 in)
• Weight (typical): 93.5g (0.206 lb)

Performance

• Spin Speed: 5400 RPM
• Average latency: 5.6ms
• Random read seek time: 14ms
• I/O data transfer rate: 300MB/s
• Unrecoverable read errors: 1 in 10

Reliability

• Annual Failure Rate: 0.48%

Power

• 5V start max current: 1.0A
• Average idle power: 1.40W
• Average operating power: 1.78W
• Average seek power: 1.54W

Ambient Temperature

• Operating: 0°–60°C
• Nonoperating: -40°–70°C
• Maximum operating temperature change: 20°C per hour
• Maximum nonoperating temperature change: 35°C per hour

Shock

• Operating Shock (max): 350 Gs for 2ms
• Nonoperating Shock (max): 1000 Gs for 1ms

Acoustics

• Acoustics (Idle Volume): 2.4 bels
• Acoustics (Seek Volume): 2.6 bels

Warranty

• 3 year company provided