The Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 hard disk drive extends the company's long-standing tradition of performance and reliability leadership. Hitachi's standardized features in desktop... more
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performance making it an ideal solution for consumer and enterprise power-friendly PCs. Leveraging sixth-generation power management technology as well as power-saving...
transfer rate allowing to store large files of any application. The Deskstar 7K500 in this ATA version, is also dedicated to professional users. The high performance Deskstar 7K500 hard drive is a safe storing solution for all your files.
audio files and films. This internal hard disk has a SATA 3.0 GB/s double interface and anĀ ATA 133 parallel for adapting it perfectly to your computer system. The T7K500 hard drive has a rotation speed of 7200 rotation per minute and a response time of 8.5 ms. It brings you the best technology from Hitachi. All the data will be perfectly saved andĀ filed with the T7K500 hard drive. Ā
The Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 hard disk drive extends the company's long-standing tradition of performance and reliability leadership. Hitachi's standardized features in desktop solutions enable fast transfer rates, low power utilization and quiet acoustics. These features combine to make the Deskstar ideal not only for standard PC systems but also for ATA entry-servers, personal video recorders and other non-PC computing requirements.
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces: 1 x Serial ATA-300 - 7 pin Serial ATA
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 5 °C, 0 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 55 °C, 60 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 8 - 90%
Shock Tolerance: 55 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 225 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)
Advantages: Easy setup, Reliable Disadvantages: Perhaps a little noisey
...Nice product, got mine for £45 being a oem drive so no cabels were supplied etc .... It was easy to install format and partition with no problems, windows recognised the full size straight away, Jumper setting guide is on the drive an easy to follow, I use mine as my second drive with windows being installed on another but im always swapping files to and from drives and all my downloads go to the Hitachi and so far no errors, corruptions or anything of the sort, Speed seems reasonable transfers a 5Gb movie in about 2 mins with other things going on in the background all in all it seems very reliable the only complaint i would have is it does tend to get a little noisey at times but only a little and not as loud as my maxtor...
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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 and it can't actually handle the data. This is easy to install, and would take a maximum of five minutes to get up and running. It has enormous storage capabilities at high speeds. I would recommend this to anyone who needs a new hard drive with enough space and at a rock bottom price....
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Advantages: Fast, Sata, Quite Cheap, Reliable Disadvantages: Have to use Hitachi Software to Enable Sata II
...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. This comes...
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I have the 250 and 750GB versions and since this is exactly the same i'll review it. For £85 it's a hoot.
A, shiny black hard drive with yellow trim lines, a stable support platform and small to boot.
I needed another external harddrive as my... more
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