Product Technical Specification Sheet

General Overview

• Brand: Toshiba

• Product Series: AL13SXB Series (Enterprise Mission-Critical Generation)

• Model Number: AL13SXB600N

• Toshiba Part Number (P/N): HDEAE00JAA51

• Target Environment: Tier-1 Enterprise Storage Systems, High-Transaction Databases, Mission-Critical Corporate Servers, Data Warehousing, and high-density blade or rack-mount computing nodes.

Technical Specifications

Configuration & Capacity

Parameter	Specification
Form Factor	2.5-inch Small Form Factor (SFF)
Formatted Capacity	600 GB
Interface Type	Dual-Port Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-2.0)
Interface Link Speed	6.0 Gbps (Backward compatible with 3Gbps SAS)
Sector Architecture	Native 512-byte block format (512n)
Physical Media Layout	3 Platters (Disks) / 6 Data Recording Heads

Performance Metrics

Parameter	Specification
Spindle Speed	15,000 RPM
Data Buffer (Cache)	64 MB
Average Latency	2.0 ms
Sustained Transfer Rate	Up to 228 MB/s (Maximum inner-to-outer track boundary)
Max Interface Burst Rate	600 MB/s per port

Reliability & Availability

Parameter	Specification
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)	2.0 Million Hours
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR)	0.44%
Availability / Duty Cycle	24/7/365 Continuous Tier-1 Operations
Unrecoverable Read Error Rate	1 sector error per $10^{16}$ bits read
Load/Unload Mechanical Cycles	600,000 cycles

Power Requirements

Parameter	Specification
Voltage Requirement	+5 VDC ($\pm 5\%$) and +12 VDC ($\pm 5\%$)
Ready Idle Power Draw	~4.5 Watts
Active Read/Write Power	~8.7 Watts (Typical operating limit)

Physical Dimensions

Parameter	Specification
Height Profile (Max)	15.0 mm (0.591 inches)
Width Profile (Max)	69.85 mm (2.750 inches)
Depth / Length (Max)	100.45 mm (3.955 inches)
Maximum Weight	220 g (0.485 lbs)

Environmental Limits

Condition	Operating	Non-Operating
Ambient Temperature	5°C to 55°C (41°F to 131°F)	-40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F)
Shock (Half-Sine Wave)	980 $m/s^2$ (100G) / 1ms	3,920 $m/s^2$ (400G) / 2ms
Vibration (Random)	9.8 $m/s^2$ (1.0G) / 5 to 500Hz	49 $m/s^2$ (5.0G) / 5 to 500Hz