The drive in the Kaser Portable Vault is a Toshiba MK1504GAL. From Toshiba's user manual:
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INTRODUCTION – MK1504GAL (HDD1285)
General Features
• 1.8" sized drive
• 1 Platter
• 15 Gigabytes*
• 5mm High
• 15ms Average Seek Time
• ATA (2 - 5) Interface
• Ultra DMA 100
• 512KB Buffer
• Rotational speed of 4,200rpm
• MTTF 300,000 Hours
SPECIFICATIONS – MK1504GAL (HDD1285)
General
Model MK1504GAL (HDD1285)
Interface ATA-2/3/4/5
Functionality
Formatted Capacity 15.0GB*
Rotational Speed 4200rpm
Avg. Rotational Latency 7.14/ms
Spin-up Time 3.5sec (typical)
Buffer 512KB
Seek Time Average Maximum 15 26
Internal Transfer Rate 125.5 ~ 253.1 Mbits/sec (max)
Host Transfer Rate Ultra DMA mode PIO Mode 100Mbytes/sec 16.6Mbytes/sec
Interleave Factor 1:1
*Toshiba defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes.
Internal Drive Characteristics
Number of Disks 1
Number of Data Heads 2
Track Density (TPI) 3,039 (77.2k)
Logical Cylinders 16,383
Logical Heads 16
Logical Sectors/track 63
Bytes per Sector 512
Logical Blocks (LBA) 29,297,520
Reliability
Preventative maintenance None
Non-recoverable read errors 1 error per 1013 bits read
Electrical
Voltage 3.3V 5%
Power Consumption
Start 1.2W typ
Seek 1.4W typ
Read/Write 1.4W typ
Sleep 0.08W typ
Energy Consumption Efficiency 0.027W/GB avg
Shock
Operating 1,960m/s2 (200G)(2msec)
Non-Operating 9,800m/s2 (1000G)(1msec)
Physical
Height 0.2" (5.0mm)
Width 2.13" (54.0mm)
Depth 3.09" (78.5mm)
Weight 1.8oz (51g) typ
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The drive is very close in size to a PCMCIA card. This model drive is used in the iPod.