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MK3252GSX 

2.5-inch SATA Hard Disk Drive 

Toshiba Storage Device Division introduces the industry’s most advanced HDD to 
date: The world’s first 320GB 2.5-inch hard disk drive. (August 2007).  

The MK3252GSX reinforces Toshiba’s technical and manufacturing expertise by 
offering 254 Gigabits of data per square inch. The industry’s highest capacity to date 
(August 07) of 320GB in a 9.5mm form factor has been achieved through advances in 
the magnetic media used in the HDD platters and the components utilised to read 
and write data.  

Weighing 102 g (max), Toshiba’s MK3252GSX 320GB hard disk drive breaks current 
capacity barriers, providing a compact and solid solution for notebooks and small 
form factor PCs, set-top boxes, external storage and much more digital applications. 

Data Storage Capacity: 

 

Per drive, Formatted 

320 GB 

Number of Platters 

Number of Heads 

Bytes/ Sector 

512 

Rotational Speed (rpm) 

5,400 

 

 

 

 

Average Seek Time:

 

msec 

Track-to-Track

 

Average 

12 

Maximum 

22 

 

 

Interface: 

 

Type 

Serial ATA II Rev.2.6 

Buffer (MB) 

Data Transfer Rate: 

300MB/sec 

 

Nominal Power 
Requirements: 

 

Voltage (V); Supply 

+5V (5%) 

Sleep (Watts) 

0.13 

Standby (Watts) 

0.16 

Read (Watts) 

1.9 

Write (Watts) 

1.9 

Seeking (Watts) 

2.2 

 

Physical & Environmental Specifications Dimensions 
–mm: 

Height 

9.5 

Width 

70 

Depth 

100 

Weight 

102 g 

 

 

Ambient Temperature °C : 

 

Operating 

5

°

~55

° 

 

Non-Operating 

-40

°

~60

° 

 

 

 

Vibration and Shock: 

 

Operating 

1.0 G Vibration 

 

350 G Shock 

Non-Operating 

900 G Shock 

 

 

Acoustic Noise 

27 dBA (seek) 

 

 

Reliability Characteristics: 

 

MTTF 

300,000 hours 

 

 

 

 

Error Rates: 

 

Unrecoverable 

1 in 10

13

 bits 

Seek 

1 in 10

6

 bits 

 

 

 

Features MK3252GSX 

Application: 

 

Notebook systems 

 

External storage 

 

Small Form Factor PCs 

 

Set-top boxes 

 

And more digital applications 

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