ST9500421AS - Seagate Momentus 7200 FDE.2 500GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive

About Seagate Momentus 500GB HDD, 500 GB, 7200 RPM

Seagate Momentus 500GB HDD. HDD capacity: 500 GB, HDD speed: 7200 RPM

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