Fujitsu Develops 160GB 2.5" 7200 RPM SATA Hard Disk Drive

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Fujitsu has announced the global launch of its MHW2160BJ series mobile hard disk drives. The newest Fujitsu products feature impressive storage capacities of up to 160GB and high performance with 7200RPM speed. This is also the 3rd product family Fujitsu has developed using perpendicular magnetic recording. The MHW2160BJ series attains the industry's highest capacity points while utilizing an industry first SATA 3.0Gb/sec interface on a 2.5" HDD. The MHW2160BJ series will begin shipping in second quarter 2007.

With the introduction of the 7200RPM product, Fujitsu now offers a comprehensive portfolio of notebook hard disk drives featuring capacity points up to 300GB and spindle speeds from 4200RPM to 7200RPM. Engineered using PMR technology, the new mobile HDDs will address the growing demand for higher performance and higher capacity laptop storage solutions. Laptop PCs continue to overtake desktop sales and market share, and high-performance mobile hard disk drives are required to help run graphic intensive applications and the increasing capacity of audio and video files.

Fujitsu designed the MHW2160BJ hard disk drive series to provide specifications that are vital for today's mobile computing applications, including:
· Capacity: 80GB/120GB/160GB;
· Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM;
· Interface: SATA 3.0Gb/sec & 1.5Gb/sec;
· Buffer to Host Transfer Rate: 300MB/sec max.;
· Disk to Buffer Transfer Rate: 102.8MB/sec max. (160GB);
· Read/Write Seek Time: 10.5/12.5 ms typ.;
· Track to Track Seek Time: 1.5ms typ.;
· Idle Power Consumption: 0.8 W typ.;
· Acoustic (Idle): 2.5 bels typ.;
· Operating Shock: 300G (2ms);
· Cache size: 8MB.

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