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Fujitsu announces 40GB automotive-class hard drive

Press release, March 15; Eric Mah, DIGITIMES Asia

Fujitsu on March 14 announced the global launch of its MHW2040AC Parallel ATA (PATA) mobile hard disk drive (HDD) for extreme environments, featuring a storage capacity of 40GB and strong temperature and shock and vibration resilience.

Fujitsu's navigation series hard drives can operate in a temperature range of -30-degrees Celsius to 85-degrees Celsius making it suitable for outdoor environments, according to the company. Enabling a range of outdoor applications, such as ATMs, point-of-sale (POS) Systems, auto-ticketing machines, the drive is also suitable for automotive GPS devices, the MHW2040AC series will ship in the second quarter of 2007, stated Fujitsu.

Fujitsu MHW2040AC hard drive specifications

Item

Details

Capacity

40GB

Rotational speed

4200-rpm

Interface

PATA (ATA-7)

Buffer size

8MB

Track to track seek time

1.5 ms typ.

Idle power consumption

0.7 W typ.

Ambient temperature tolerance (2 versions)

30-degrees Celsius to 85-degrees Celsius
-20-degrees Celsius to 80-degrees Celsius

Relative humidity

8% to 90% RH

Acoustic (Idle)

1.5 bels typ.

Operating shock

300G (2ms)

Source: Company, compiled by DigiTimes.com, March 2007

The Fujitsu MHW2040AC mobile hard drive for extreme environments

The the Fujitsu MHW2040AC hard drive
Photo: Company