The Hitachi Deskstar is a great little hard drive which can be had for around £40.
I bought this hard drive for my first computer i built and am extreamly impressed with its preformance. It is exceptionaly quiet i have never really heard a peep from it over the sound of the fans and DVD ... Read review
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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...
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The Deskstar P7K500 hard drive provides an exceptional blend of power efficiency and ... more
performance making it an ideal solution for consumer and enterprise power-friendly PCs. Leveraging sixth-generation power management technology as well as power-saving innovations pioneered on Hitachis popular 2.5-inch line of notebook PC hard drives, this new breed of desktop drive delivers best-in-class power management and thermal emissions to help manufacturers meet energy compliance targets and extend drive life.Featu...
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The Deskstar P7K500 hard drive provides an exceptional blend of power efficiency and ... more
performance making it an ideal solution for consumer and enterprise power-friendly PCs. Leveraging sixth-generation power management technology as well as power-saving innovations pioneered on Hitachis popular 2.5-inch line of notebook PC hard drives, this new breed of desktop drive delivers best-in-class power management and thermal emissions to help manufacturers meet energy compliance targets and extend drive life.Featu...
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audio files and films. This internal hard disk has a SATA 3.0 GB/s double interface and an 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 and filed with the T7K500 hard drive.
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Advantages: Plenty of storage space and very quiet Disadvantages: Isn't the biggest guide on the market nore the fastest but not the most expensive either
The Hitachi Deskstar is a great little hard drive which can be had for around £40.
I bought this hard drive for my first computer i built and am extreamly impressed with its preformance. It is exceptionaly quiet i have never really heard a peep from it over the sound of the fans and DVD drive which isn't really that loud. It seems to run at a reasonable temperature, I have felt it before after the coputer has been running for a couple ... ...worry about.
The drive is a massive 500Gb which is plenty for the average user easily fitting all of your music, documents and videos on with little trouble and acres of space to spare.
The drive is very easy to install just the simple matter of plugging in two cables one from the power supply and another connected to the motherboard.
The drive seems to run very quickly, finds files with relative ease and windows ... more
The Hitachi Deskstar is a great little hard drive which can be had for around £40.
I bought this hard drive for my first computer i built and am extreamly impressed with its preformance. It is exceptionaly quiet i have never really heard a peep from it over the sound of the fans and DVD drive which isn't really that loud. It seems to run at a reasonable temperature, I have felt it before after the coputer has been running for a couple of hours and it has been reasonably cool nothing to worry about.
The drive is a massive 500Gb which is plenty for the average user easily fitting all of your music, documents and videos on with little trouble and acres of space to spare. The drive is very easy to install just the simple matter of plugging in two cables one from the power supply and another connected to the motherboard.
The drive seems to run very quickly, finds files with relative ease and windows vista loads in under a minute which is quite impressive.
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Product Information for "Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 500 GB" »
Performance
Drive Transfer Rate
300 MBps (external)
Internal Data Rate
102.1 MBps
Seek Time
8.5 ms (average)
Spindle Speed
7200 rpm
Reliability
Non-Recoverable Errors
1 per 10^14
Start / Stop Cycles
50,000
MTBF
1,000,000 hour(s)
Miscellaneous
Works with Windows Vista
Works with Windows Vista
Compliant Standards
RoHS
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)
Vibration Tolerance
0.67 g @ RMS (random) (operating) / 1.04 g @ RMS (random) (non-operating)
Sound Emission
31 dB
Manufacturer warranty
Service & Support
5 years warranty
Service & Support Details
Limited warranty - 5 years
Manufacturer's product description
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.
