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Advantages: High speed transfer, power consumption low, quiet
Disadvantages: usual HDD shock issues

The Hitachi TravelStar is the newly developed model from Hitachi Co. specifically designed for notebooks. It varies in storage capacity, but the important factors are: the rotation speed of 7200 RPM, S-ATA 1.5 GB/s interface, and what Hitachi says "a 22% performance increase". Let's see what are the improvements: -Having tested the model you get a random access time of 14ms which is extremely faster than it's predecessor and it's competitors; ...
...wow-it's very fast) -It's almost noiseless, you get a 42dB/A idle noise at 3mm distance from the HDD; -and it's power consumption was reduced(in full load it uses 3W and in idle mode only 1.1W), which means it is very economical. -the price is in reach; I think this motivates you in at least trying one ... Read review

Advantages: Looks amazing, performs amazing.
Disadvantages: A bit expensive.. its just a HDD afterall

This product has to be one of the most impressive looking computer component i have ever seen. The clear top complements my acrylic case and shows off the spindle and disk spinning at 10000RPM! Wow! From using my old IDE 7200RPM hdd to this one, i have lost 14 seconds on my windows load and loads more time off computer game load screens etc. The Raptor has probably boosted my overall performance of my computer far more then replacing any other component. ... Read review

Advantages: 250GB of internal memory!! At a reasonable price, too!
Disadvantages: No major disadvantages. Not as quiet as I believed it would be.

...low, this 250GB drive from Western Digital was the highest capacity ATA internal drive I could find at a reasonable price, and so far it has not let me down! It took a bit of effort to clone my original hard drive to the new one, which required the purchase of an external hard drive enclosure, but once the process was completed, I simply removed my old hard drive, insterted the new one and was ready to go! And now I have my old 60GB drive in the ...
...has gone to waste in the upgrade! The drive has been completely reliable and performs exactly as expected. The only slight quibble I have is that despite the manufacturer's claim that it is one of the quietest drives around, it is slightly louder than my old one. Regardless of this however, it is still pretty quiet and the noise level is not a problem even when left on at night. All in all I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone looking to upgrade ... Read review

Advantages: Large capacity, fast especially at writing, Stable, Good price
Disadvantages: Weak at multi thread reads and this hurts (me)

...The good things of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 Seagate hdd are the most stables drives in the market, I've used my drive for quite a time and never experienced a single problem. Large capacity, 500 Gb is more than enough (470 real) Good speed, especially at writing data, but also at reading excepting multiple file copy. Speed is about 70-80 Mb at large files The access time is about 13-14ms (about the same as other hdd) Temperature IS OK. Very ... Read review

Advantages: Speed
Disadvantages: None

I purchased this drive earlier this month to replace 2x Maxtor 200gb drives, I chose this drive after reading a review in a computer magazine. As with all SATA drives installation was a simple case of connection the SATA and power connectors (as this drive is OEM it does not come with any cables so make sure you already have them or purchase them separately). The drive is almost silent in operation, even during intensive use and it is very fast compared ... Read review