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	3000 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	3.7 W
Stand-by	1.0 W
Sleep	1.0 W
Energy consumption efficiency/Category	0.0018/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.)	0.450 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