Deskstar T7K500 Quick Installation Guide v1.1

Quick Installation Guide

Hitachi Travelstar Z7K500

7mm z-height Hard Disk Drive

Models: HTS725050A7E630

HTS725032A7E630

HTS725025A7E630

HTS725050A7E631

HTS725032A7E631

HTS725025A7E631

HTE725050A7E630

HTE725032A7E630

NOTE: Travelstar Z7K500 hard drives feature Advanced Format technology. Advanced Format increases the physical sector size on hard drives from 512 bytes to 4096 (4K) bytes, which increases drive capacities and improves error correction capabilities. Please consult the Hitachi Advanced Format Drives page on our website for more information on using these hard drives.

Handling precautions

 Set the drive down gently to prevent damage from impact or vibration.

 Handle the drive carefully by the edges. Do not touch the exposed printed circuit board or any electronic components.

 Do not press on the top or bottom of the drive.

 Before handling the drive, discharge any static electricity from yourself and your clothing. With one hand touch an unpainted metal surface, then touch the ESD bag with the other hand. Remain in contact with the chassis and the bag for a minimum of two seconds.

 Vibration, shock and static electricity to the drive will damage the precision parts. In particular, prevent vibration or shock generated by dropping, knocking over or hitting the drive. Also, avoid touching the electrical components directly, which can discharge electrostatic energy and damage the drive.

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Mounting Recommendations

The mounting hole locations and size of the drive are shown in the following illustration:

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The drive will operate in all axes (six directions) and will stay within the specified error rates when tilted ±5 degrees from these positions. Performance and error rate will stay within specification limits if the drive is operated in the other permissible orientations from which it was formatted. Thus a drive formatted in a horizontal orientation will be able to run vertically and vice versa.

The recommended mounting screw torque is 0.3±0.05 Nm.

The recommended mounting screw depth is 3.0±0.3 mm for bottom and 3.5±0.5 mm for horizontal mounting.

The user is responsible for using the appropriate screws or equivalent mounting hardware to mount the drive securely enough to prevent excessive motion or vibration of the drive at seek operation or spindle rotation.

Interface connector

The figure below shows the physical pin location

 All pins are in a single row, with a 127 mm (0.050”) pitch.

 The comments on the mating sequence in Table in the section 7.3 apply to the case of back-plane blind-mate connector only. In this case, the mating sequences are:(1) the ground pins P4 and P12;(2) the pre-charge power pins and the other ground pins; and

(3) the signal pins and the rest of the power pins.

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 There are three power pins for each voltage. One pin from each voltage is used for pre-charge in the backplane blind-mate situation.

 This device uses only 5.0V. All V5 pins must be terminated.

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22 February 2012

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