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HGST’s mobile hard drives are designed to 

the highest quality standards and contain 

field-proven components. HGST provides 

worldwide technical support and integration 

services to enable global customers to bring 

their products to market quickly.

How to read the Travelstar model number

HTS543232A7A384 = 320GB, SATA 3Gb/s

H  = HGST

T  = Travelstar

S  =  Standard (vs E for Enhanced Availability)

54  =  5400 RPM

32  =  Full capacity — 320GB

32  =  Capacity this model, 32 = 320GB

 

  (25 = 250GB, 16 = 160GB)

A  =  Generation code

7  =  7mm z-height

A3  =  SATA 3Gb/s

8  =  8MB cache 

4  =  No encryption (1 = Bulk data encryption,  

 

  5 = TCG Opal Encryption)

Information and Technical Support

www.hgst.com (Main Web site)

www.hgst.com/partners (Partner Web site)

North America

[email protected]

Toll free: 1 888 426-5214, Direct: 1 408 717-8087

Asia Pacific

[email protected] / 65 6840 9595

EMEA and UK

[email protected] / 44 20 7133 0032

Germany

[email protected] / 49 6929 993601

Program Support

Partners First Program

[email protected]

Specifications

Models

HTS543232A7A384

HTS543232A7A381

HTS543232A7A385 

HTS543225A7A384

HTS543225A7A381

HTS543225A7A385 

HTS543216A7A384

HTS543216A7A381

HTS543216A7A385

HTE543232A7A384 

HTE543225A7A384

Configuration

Interface 

SATA 3Gb/s

f

Capacity (GB)

1

320 / 250 / 160

320 / 250

Sector size (bytes)

512

f

Recording zones

24

f

Aerial density (Gbit/sq.in, max)

477

f

Performance

Data buffer (MB)

2

8

f

Rotational speed (RPM) 

                                         5400                       

      

f

Latency average (ms)

                                             5.5

f

Media transfer rate (Mbits/s, max)

                           994

 

f

Interface transfer rate (MB/s)

300

f

Seek time   

   Average (typical) ms (read)

3

13

f

   Track to track (typical) ms (read)

1

f

   Full stroke (typical) ms (read)

25

f

Reliability

Load/Unload cycle 

600,000

f

Power on hours (POH) per month 

N/A

730

Availability

4

 (hrs/day x days/wk)

N/A

24x7

Power

Requirement 

+5VDC (+-5%)

f

Dissipation (typical)

   Startup (W, peak, max)

 

4.5

 
f

   Seek (W, average) 

1.8

f

   Read/Write (W, average)

1.6

f

   Performance idle (W, average)

1.5

Idle (Avg.) 

   Active idle (W, average)

0.8

N/A

   Low power idle (W, average)

0.55

N/A

   Standby (W, average)

0.2

f

   Sleep

0.1

f

Physical size

Height (mm, max) 

7

f

Dimensions (width x depth, mm) 

70 x 100

f

Weight (g, max) 

95

f

Environmental (operating)

Shock (half-sine wave) 

400G/2ms, 225G/1ms

f

Ambient temperature

0° to 60° C

f

Environmental (non-operating)

Shock (half-sine wave) 

1000G/1 ms

f

Ambient temperature 

-40° to 65° C

f

Acoustics (A-weighted sound power)

Idle (Bels, typical)

1.9

f

Seek (Bels, typical) 

2.0

f

Travelstar

 

Z5K320

Standard Models

EA Models

1

 

 

One GB is equal to one billion bytes when referring to hard drive 

capacity. Accessible capacity will vary depending on the operating 

environment and formatting.

2

 Portion of buffer used for firmware

3

 Excludes command overhead 

4

 Designed for low duty cycle, non mission-critical applications 

in PC, nearline and consumer electronics environments, which  

vary application to application

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