Product info

Toshiba’s 7200 RPM 3.5-inch (8.9cm) HDD series is optimised for use in power-friendly consumer and commercial desktop computers, gaming PCs and external HDDs. The DT01ACAxx series offers up to 3 TB capacity and uses Advanced Format and leverages a best-in-class power management technology. In addition, this desktop drive provides up to 16% idle power savings over the previous model. The 6 Gb/s SATA interface drives deliver 7200 RPM performance. These HDDs are designed to allow manufacturers to leverage the benefits of the latest components and operating systems to deliver high-performance, high-capacity, power-efficient systems.

Formatted capacity 500 GByte
Form factor 3.5 inch
Interface type Serial ATA
Supported interface standards ATA-8  Serial ATA 3.0
S.M.A.R.T. The SMART command set is supported.
Bytes/sector (Host) 512
Bytes/sector (Disk) 4096 kByte
Single track seek time (read) 0.6 ms
Single track seek time (write) 0.8 ms
SATA (Host) max. 6.0 Gbit/s
Rotational speed 7,200 rpm
Buffer size 32 MByte
Load/Unload 300,000 Times
Non-recoverable error rate 1 error per 1014 read
Read (Random) 6.4 W
Write (Random) 6.4 W
Idle 5.2 W
Stand-by 1.0 W
Sleep 1.0 W
Energy consumption efficiency/Category 0.0026/B
Allowable voltage

+5 VDC (+/- 5 %)

+12 VDC (+/- 10 %)

Drive width 101.6 mm
Drive height 26.1 mm
Drive depth 147 mm
Drive weight (max.) 0.680 kg
Operating TEMPERATURE From 0 °C to 60 °C
Non-operating TEMPERATURE From -40 °C to 70 °C
Operating VIBRATION 0.67 G, with 5 - 500 Hz
Non-operating (Maximum) 1.04 G, with 2 - 200 Hz
Operating SHOCK 70 G, with 2 ms half sine wave
Non-operating (Maximum) 300 G, with 2 ms half sine wave
Idle (typ.) ACOUSTIC NOISE 27 dB
Seek 28 dB