Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B 640 GB

Huge storage and cheap price

Advantages: Big storage, quite quiet
Disadvantages: None after 1 month of use

I bought this drive to replace my old 250gb western digital and 320gb samsung hard drives. I chose this Hitachi drive as at the time it was the best value drive I could find, and for the £58 I paid (from a company called overclockers) it offered a massive amount of storage at 1TB. So far I've been using it for a month and no problems to report yet. It isn't the quietest drive I've used, but it is certainly by no means a noisy drive and also seems to have nice quick access times compared to my older SATA drives. Im using it as my only drive, with windows on a separate partition and all my other documents and programs on the remainder of the drive. The boot up time for windows seems quick at the moment, however i am sure with time it will slow down as all drives do when they get full of user files and related junk! As far as ...

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Review of Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B 1 TB

The wonders of the Hitachi Deskstar

Advantages: Reliable, Quick, Quite, Good value for money
Disadvantages: Not a very high capasity

If you are looking for an 80 GB hard disk for your PC, you have found the one to buy! I have been using 2 of these Hitachi Deskstar's in my PC for a long time now. I have had no problems with them. For the price you pay to buy one, you are getting cheap and reliable hard disk, witch has a good capacity to price ratio (around 2GB per pound). I would recommend this hard disk to anyone whom it is making up a new computer, or just needs more storage space. This hard disk is probable one of the quickest disks I have used, its read speed is good, but I must say, the SATA (serial ATA) version is about twice as quick, but for them that don't intend to go down the path of SATA Can just stick with the ATA-100 version (or IDE as it is more commonly known). Instillation of this disk is like every other hard disk on this planet, if you know ...

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Review of Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 80 GB

The Hitachi Deskstar is really a star

Advantages: Value for money, great performance, additional drive utilities , SATA 300Gb/s
Disadvantages: Little noisy

Product Description Hitachi DeskStar T7K250 - hard drive - 160 GB - SATA II Type Hard drive - internal Form Factor 3.5" x 1/3H Dimensions (WxDxH) 10.2 cm x 14.6 cm x 2.5 cm Weight 0.6 kg Capacity 160 GB Interface Type Serial ATA II Connector 22-position Serial ATA (SATA) plug Data Transfer Rate 300 MBps Average Seek Time 8.5 ms Spindle Speed 7200 rpm Buffer Size 8 MB This is one of the cheapest SATA 300Gb/s capable hard disk available in this capacity range. The hard disk has a SATA interface, regular 12v power connector, and also a SATA power interface. If your computer has the new SATA power connectors, you ...

solaris1201 08.06.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160 GB