MaXLine® Pro 500
500 GB SATA Hard Drive

Native 3.0Gb SATA, large capacity, highly reliable hard drives for reference storage and data protection

MaXLine Pro 500 drives are designed to serve the capacity-sensitive portion of the enterprise market. These drives deliver the best value on a per gigabyte basis while offering advanced features, placing the MaXLine Pro 500 drive at the forefront in secondary online storage applications.

The advanced features designed into the MaXLine Pro 500 drive separate it from other drives built for nearline storage. With rotational vibration protection up to 25 radians/sec2 and accelerated error recovery, the MaXLine Pro 500 drive delivers the capacity, performance, and data integrity required by the most demanding nearline applications.

Users are implementing enhanced data protection solutions such as disk-to-disk backup, point-in-time copies, snapshot clones and remote replication or managing reference data, MaXLine Pro 500 drives are an ideal choice. They offer 500GB of storage capacity, a 3.0Gb SATA interface, and have been designed for a mean time to failure of 1 million hours in nearline workload applications.

MaXLine Pro 500 drives provide new features to better serve the enterprise ATA market, such as:

  • Rotational Vibration Compensation—enables the drive to withstand higher rotational vibration (25 rads/sec2) from adjacent drives, minimizing performance degradation caused by excessive vibration in multi-drive environments.
  • Accelerated Error Recovery, for improved performance in RAID environments, without reduction in data integrity.
  • Internal EDC that protects data integrity within the drive.
  • Fly Height Adjust Technology—optimizes performance by maintaining an ideal head-to-disk clearance across the drives’ specified operating temperatures.
  • Easy Code Load, which provides a simple firmware download process with compatibility safeguards and ease of use.
  • Pattern Fill, is a RAID initialization feature which allows a known data pattern to be written to the drive.
  • Expanded Drive Self Test is a more extensive self-test to help customers eliminate false failures and validate good drives
SATA II features
  • Native command queuing
  • Hot plug
  • Staggered spin up
  • Asynchronous signal recovery
  • Presence Detect
  • Identify Device / Set Features
  • Host Initiated Power Management

RoHS Compliant

Maxtor supports the EU Directive for Restriction of Hazardous Substances. (Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January, 2003.)

 Best-fit enterprise applications:
  • Reference Storage Applications
  • Email Archive
  • Data Warehousing
  • Point in time copy
  • Snapshot clones
  • Remote replication
  • Disk to Disk to Tape Backup
  • Video Security
Specifications
Formatted Capacity (GB) 500
Bytes per Sector 512
Interface SATA 3.0Gb
(Fully backward compatible with SATA 1.5Gb)

Disk Drive Configurations
Disks 4
Heads 8
Bytes per Sector/Block 512

Performance Specifications
Spindle Speed (RPM) 7200
Seek Time:
Average Read (ms) 8.5
Track-to-Track Read/Write (ms) 0.9
Average Rotational Latency (ms) 4.17
Full Stroke (ms) 17
Transfer Rate:
Serial ATA (MB/s) 300
Buffer (Cache) Size (MB) 16MB

Reliability Specifications
MTTF (Mean Time To Failure) in nearline (low duty cycle) workloads 1,000,000 Hours
Contact Start Stop (CSS) Cycles 50,000
Data Error Rate per Bits Read
Nonrecoverable <1 per 1015
Limited Warranty (years) 5

Operating
Temperature (°C) base casting 0-60
Non-Condensing Humidity (%) 5 to 95
Rotational Shock (rad/sec2, 2ms ) 2000
Random Vibration
10–2000 Hz (GRMS)		 0.86
Rotational Sine Vibration
10–800 Hz (rad/sec2)		 25
Altitude (ft) -650 to 10,000
Acoustics, Idle (bels) 3.1

Non-Operating
Temperature (°C) -40 to 71
Non-Condensing Humidity (%) 5 to 95
Shock 2 msec (Linear half sign G) 300, 200, 200
Vibration 7–800 Hz (GRMS) 1.5
Altitude (ft) -1,000 to 10,000

Power Specifications
Voltage Requirements 5V±5% 12V±5%
Idle Mode (W) 9.97

Physical Dimensions
Width max (mm) 101.85
Length max (mm) 146.35
Height max (mm) 26.10
Weight typical (grams) < 718