Product comparison · 2 internal hard drives

Seagate 450GB 3.5 vs Seagate 500GB 3.5

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Comparison of 450GB 3.5, 500GB 3.5
30 specifications	A Seagate 450GB 3.5 View product	B Seagate 500GB 3.5 View product
Features4 differ
HDD capacityDiffers	450 GB	500 GB
HDD speedDiffers	15000 RPM	7200 RPM
InterfaceDiffers	SAS	Serial ATA II
Component forKnown for one	Server/workstation	Unknown — not stated by the source
Read seek timeKnown for one	3.4 ms	Unknown — not stated by the source
Write seek timeKnown for one	3.9 ms	Unknown — not stated by the source
Average latencyDiffers	2 ms	4.17 ms
Mean time between failures (MTBF)Known for one	1600000 h	Unknown — not stated by the source
Bytes per sectorKnown for one	Unknown — not stated by the source	512
Start/stop cyclesKnown for one	Unknown — not stated by the source	50000
Power2 differ
Power consumption (typical)Differs	14.6 W	8 W
Power consumption (idle)Differs	10.1 W	5 W
Start-up currentKnown for one	Unknown — not stated by the source	2 A
Operational conditions3 differ
Operating temperature (T-T)Differs	5 - 55 °C	0 - 60 °C
Operating vibrationKnown for one	1 G	Unknown — not stated by the source
Non-operating vibrationKnown for one	3 G	Unknown — not stated by the source
Operating shockDiffers	60 G	70 G
Non-operating shockDiffers	300 G	350 G
Packaging contentidentical
Storage drive adapter includedKnown for one	No	Unknown — not stated by the source
Weight & dimensions3 differ
DepthDiffers	146.5 mm	147 mm
HeightDiffers	25.4 mm	20 mm
WeightDiffers	676 g	540 g
Packaging dataidentical
Quantity per packKnown for one	1 pc(s)	Unknown — not stated by the source

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