The Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 extends the company's long-standing tradition of performance leadership. This new series of Deskstar drives incorporates both new and proven technologies... more
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and beyond. The T7K250 provides all of these enhancements to enable faster data access and better power management to the system. The drive is also backward compatible for those wishing to upgrade their storage of SATA 1.0 systems.
A review by patwanet on Hitachi DeskStar 7K250 160 GB December 18th, 2005
Author's product rating:
Memory / capacity
Excellent
Reliability
Excellent
Ease of Installation
Excellent - very quick and easy
Speed
Very fast
Value For Money
Excellent
Advantages:
Extremely Reliable
Disadvantages:
A little noisy, but you'd need a decimeter to prove it !
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
The Hitachi 160GB (SATA Version) is truly an exceptional drive. Whereas Maxtor are known for their low prices and Western Digital for their performance, Hitachi have truly captured the market as a result of the reliability of their products. And so it is with the 160GB Hard Drive.
As far as hard drives go, it's pretty standard. It installs the same way, works the same way, even looks the same way, unless you count the different logo.
I personally have 2 of these drives, having bought them as a replacement for my previous Maxtor drives, after one o them failed irrecoverably and the other failed but did not have guarenteed reliability.
I have found that the Hitachi drive is slightly noisier than the Maxtor, although this is only really noticeable if you are lyying next to your case with it lying open, and even then only on bootup. The performance on the other hand is very good. There is no noticeable degradation of the drive, as found by using a disk analysis utility. Repeated or scheduled fragmentation also has no negligable effect. The drive is priced slightly higher than other major brands, with current prices around £60 exc. vat.
My opinion is that this is the perfect drive for anyone considering an upgrade, or for those like myself who are also computer builders. Clients can be guarenteed reliability.
Advantages: Raw speed and power Disadvantages: none
Well i needed a new hard disk for my new pc, and i'd been told that SATA drives were the way to go...
I decided on purchasing two of these drives to create a RAID 0 setup (2 hard disks working as one, twice as fast) after hearing nothing but good things, and i can back this up from experience. They're quiet, fast and reliable, and coupled with a relatively new system they make for a killer PC setup.
One thing i must note is that if you are planning ... ...size should be fine. However if you are building a new pc i recommend you look to buy a drive twice as big as you think you need (or buy two of the same drive for a RAID 0 array), as many game installs are upwards of 5Gig each, which quickly adds up along with applications and media.
I have been running this (well these) drives for a while now, as i never shut my PC down, and have found them to be extremely reliable, and have had no errors at all ...
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Advantages: Lots of storage space for Rock Bottom prices Disadvantages: You have to get the pins correctly inserted with the cables as you can choose the size of the hard drive with this technique
This has got to be one of the best buys I have ever made for a hard drive. 160gb for that price is a like a bargain at a car boot sale. Not only does it have gigantic storage space, it is reliable because of the 8mb cache. Most hard drives that are cheap come with a 2mb cache whcih make them work slower. So if you buy this product, you know it will never fail on you. This makes it very reliable. Many hard drives are unreliable because of the size ...
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Advantages: Value for money, great performance, additional drive utilities , SATA 300Gb/s Disadvantages: Little noisy
...Product Description HitachiDeskStar T7K250 - hard drive - 160GB - 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 160GB
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...
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Advantages: Fast, Sata, Quite Cheap, Reliable Disadvantages: Have to use Hitachi Software to Enable Sata II
...you have to use Hitachi Feature Tools within windows, this is available from the Hitachi website and is easy enough but is just a added nuisance really. Once you have done this though the drive really flies along with speeds of about 130Mbps. The drive is also very unobtrusive sound wise, you can barely hear it clicking away in the background if you install it tightly.
If your looking for something that's good for storing all of your files and fast enough to run games off that not going to break the bank this is really the drive to go for. If your looking for something that's just really for games have a look at the Western Digital Raptor X series with 10,000 Rpm and 74Gb of Storage but these retail at about £150 or so, I personally would go for the Hitachi over the Raptor because of it's superior reliability and more data storage...
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Seek Time: 8.5 ms (average) / 15.1 ms (max), 8.8 ms (average) / 15.1 ms (max), 8.2 ms (average) / 14.7 ms (max)
Track-to-Track Seek Time: 1.1 ms
Average Latency: 4.17 ms
Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm
Reliability
Non-Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^14
Start / Stop Cycles: 50,000, 40,000
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces: 1 x ATA-100 - 40 PIN IDC, 1 x Serial ATA-150 - 7 pin Serial ATA
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
Manufacturer's product description
The Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 extends the company's long-standing tradition of performance leadership. This new series of Deskstar drives incorporates both new and proven technologies to boost the performance, capacity, and reliability to handle a wide range of advanced storage requirements. Hitachi's standardized features in desktop solutions enable fast transfer rates, low power utilization and quiet acoustics. These features combine to make the Deskstar 7K250 ideal not only for standard PC systems but also for ATA entry-servers, personal video recorders and other non-PC computing requirements.
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 5 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 55 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 8 - 90%
Shock Tolerance: 55 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 350 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (non-operating), 55 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 300 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance: 0.67 g @ RMS (random) (operating) / 1.04 g @ RMS (random) (non-operating)
Sound Emission: 28 dB
Max Altitude Operating: 3 km
Miscellaneous
Compliant Standards: FCC Class B certified, CSA, UL, TUV, C-Tick, BSMI, EN 60950, CSA 22.2 No. 950
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