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Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160 GB

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The Hitachi Deskstar is really a star

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4 Jun 8th, 2006 

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

Disadvantages:
Little noisy

Recommendable Yes:

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Memory / capacity

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Speed

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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 could use them. If not you can use the plain old regular 12v ATX power, which is available on any computer.

Out of the box, this drive is programmed to support only SATA 150Gb/s. You need to download a special utility from Hitachi website to enable SATA 300Gb/s. Their website is at http://www.hitachigst.com


With Windows XP 64bit version, I did a speed test which is available via the Device Manager and achieved 125 Gb/s burst rate. After I changed the drive to support SATA 300Gb/s, I was able to achieve 190Gb/s burst rate. Which is still lower than the theoretical 300Gb/s. I guess the drives are not still fast enough to take advantage of the huge bandwidth capacity of the SATA 300Gb/s interface.

The drive is exceptionally fast; thanks to 8mb buffer and 8.5 ms average seek time.


It is not that noisy, but it could have been made better I guess.

Please note that SATA II is not SATA 300Gb/s. SATA II is a new SATA technology which is still on the drawing board. Some people have confusingly used the wrong terminology to describe SATA 300Gb/s.


Link to Hitachi website http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8ad64ff886ef0714e85c1a70eac4f0a0/

 

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Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160 GB - review by thisperson3785

Advantages: SATA so fast, smaller cables, easy to install
Disadvantages: Can be loud when reading/writing

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