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Momentus® 7200 FDE Laptop Hard Drives

Encryption safe enough for national security, easy enough for one-man IT shops

Model ST9500421AS SATA 3Gb/s 500GB

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Best-Fit Applications

  • Corporate laptops that contain confidential employee, customer or company information
  • Field sales, service and support laptops that contain critical customer data
  • Personal laptops that contain sensitive information
  • Industrial applications such as ATMs, POS systems and other teller-like systems

 

Advanced security firmware allows for pre-boot authentication in the form of biometrics, passwords or smart cards. The hardware-based encryption engine delivers security without the overhead—no processor utilization, no time delays. You get transparent security without the hassle.

Better than Green is Reusable and with the Momentus FDE drives, IT personnel and consumers can securely reuse this drive without risk of confidentiality breach. So don't spend hours wiping the drive clean or more money to shred a perfectly good drive – just REUSE it!

Key Advantages

  • Third generation of Seagate Secure AES hardware-based encryption engine
  • G-Force Protection gives these FDE drives added robustness in everyday mobile lifestyles
  • 7200-RPM spindle speed with less than 2.3 watts for read/write power
  • Ultra-quiet acoustics of 2.3 bels at idle and 2.6 bels during seeks
  • Internal data rate of 1.1 Gb/s
  • SATA 3Gb/s interface with Native Command Queuing
  • 350 Gs shock tolerance at 2 ms
  • 1000 Gs shock tolerance at 1 ms
  • Perpendicular recording technology

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Momentus 7200 FDE.2 500-GB Hard Drive

ST9500421AS

Specifications
Model Number ST9500421AS
Interface SATA 3Gb/s
Cache 16MB
Capacity 500 GB
Areal density (avg) 394 Gbits/inch2
Guaranteed Sectors 976,773,168
PHYSICAL
Height (max) 9.5 mm (0.370 inches)
Width (max) 69.85 mm (2.75 inches)
Length (max) 100.35 mm (3.951 inches)
Weight (typical) 110 grams (0.238 pounds)
PERFORMANCE
Spindle Speed 7,200 rpm
Sustained data transfer rate 1,230,000 null
Average latency 4.17 msec
Random read seek time 11.0 msec
Random write seek time 13.0 msec
null 300 null
RELIABILITY
Annual Failure Rate 0.48
Unrecoverable read errors 1 in 10^14
POWER
5V start max current 1.0 amps
Average idle current 1.0 watts
Average seek power 2.2 watts
ENVIRONMENT
Ambient Temperature
Operating 0 to60 degrees C
Nonoperating -40 to70 degrees C
Maximum operating temperature change 20 degrees C per hour
Maximum nonoperating temperature change 35 degrees C per hour
Shock
Operating Shock (max) 350 Gs null 2 msec
Nonoperating Shock (max) 1000 Gs null 1 msec
ACOUSTICS
Acoustics (Idle Volume) 2.3 bels
Acoustics (Seek Volume) 2.6 bels

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