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Balanced capacity and performance for mobile computing

The Travelstar™ 5K250 is Hitachi’s highest capacity, 5400 RPM hard drive for notebook PCs. 
With more than a 56% capacity improvement and 8% better application performance than 
its predecessor, this drive is the work horse of the mobile product line. The 5K250 offers a 
maximum capacity of 250 GB with best-of-breed performance in PCMark testing. Travelstar 
5K250, with outstanding power management, delivers the lowest 5400 RPM power consumption, 
providing longer battery life for notebook users. Hitachi has improved the shock performance 
of the 5K250 by almost 23% to an industry-leading 400G, enhancing its ability to withstand 
rough handling. The acoustics have also been improved over the previous generation product, 
allowing users to enjoy high quality audio on their laptops. In addition, Hitachi offers optional 
Bulk Data Encryption, on specific part numbers, for users looking for increased data security. 
Travelstar 5K250 is designed to address the balanced requirements of notebook PC and 
mobile computing users – high capacity, ruggedness, power-efficiency and speed.

Bulk Data Encryption

Travelstar 5K250 is Hitachi’s first 5400 RPM product with optional hard drive-level Bulk Data 
Encryption to help guard against data loss and piracy. This new technology, where data is 
scrambled using a key as it is written to the disk then descrambled with the key as it’s re-
trieved, gives users a higher level of data protection than traditional password-based security 
available today. An additional benefit of Bulk Data Encryption is speeding and simplifying the 
drive re-deployment process. By deleting the encryption key, the data on the drive is rendered 
unreadable, thereby eliminating the need for time-consuming data-erasure.

250, 200, 160, 120 and 80 GB | 5400 RPM  

SATA 3 Gb/s and 1.5 Gb/s

Highlights

Capacity range up to 250 GB 

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Highest 5400 RPM application performance 
in PCMark testing

Industry-leading operating shock of 400G 

Best-of-breed low power consumption

Serial ATA 3 Gb/s & 1.5 Gb/s
New security option: Bulk Data Encryption

Applications

Notebook PCs

External storage

Gaming consoles
Portable video players

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Feature / Function 

Benefits

Capacity 

Up to 250 GB of storage 

* Capacity equivalence of 250 hours  of video,  

 

 

89 movies, 62,500 4-min songs or 125 games

Performance

 

Up to 665 Mb/s media 

10-25% faster application performance than 

 

transfer rate 

competitive 5400 RPM in PCMark testing

Power

 

1.8W read/write power 

Longer battery life for more “unplugged” 

 

0.55W low power idle 

notebook time

Reliability

 

400G operating shock 

Best protection against bumps and rough handling 

    

1000G non-operating shock

 

Thermal Fly-height Control (TFC) 

Better soft error rate for improved reliability 

 

 

and performance

 

TrueTrack Technology™ 

Tracking accuracy in high shock or vibration  

 

 

environments

Acoustics

 

Quiet acoustics 

Richer audio-listening experience for music, movies  

 

 

and games

Interface

 

SATA 3 Gb/s & 1.5 Gb/s 

High data throughput

Security

 

Bulk Data Encryption option 

Helps guard against data loss & piracy

 

 

(Available with 1.5 Gb/s SATA  

 

on specific part numbers)

Features and Benefits

Travelstar

 5K250

High-capacity notebook PC storage with new data encryption technology

2.5-INCH HARD DISK DRIVES

www.hitachiGST.com

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Actual storage may vary depending on the compression rate applied.

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