Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B

Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B was a hard drive product family by Hitachi. It is Hitachi's second 500 GB 2.5" hard drive family, and the first to do so in the conventional 9.5 mm z-height (the earlier Hitachi Travelstar 5K500 had to push the z-height to 12.5 mm in order to fit 500 GB). It succeeds the Hitachi Travelstar 5K320, pushing the density to 250 GB/platter except in 160 GB models. Similar families from other manufacturers include the Fujitsu Hornet M250, the Mercury platform Western Digital Scorpio Blue members, Seagate Momentus 5400.6, Toshiba MKxx52GSX and Samsung Spinpoint M7.

Products

160 GB/platter models

160 GB models use 160 GB platters, the only models in the 5K500.B family to do so.

• Hitachi HTS545016B9A300

250 GB/platter models

• Hitachi HTS545012B9A300
• Hitachi HTS545025B9A300
• Hitachi HTS545032B9A300
• Hitachi HTS545040B9A300
• Hitachi HTS545050B9A300

Trivia

• All members of the 5K500.B family are codenamed Panther-B.

Gallery

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  Top-down view of a HTS545050B9A300.