The Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 extends the company's long-standing tradition of performance leadership. Hitachi's standardized features in desktop solutions enable fast transfer rates,... more
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A review by lowerboscadjack on Hitachi DeskStar 7K80 80 GB February 23rd, 2006
Author's product rating:
Memory / capacity
Good
Reliability
Excellent
Ease of Installation
Excellent - very quick and easy
Speed
Very fast
Value For Money
Good
Advantages:
Reliable, Quick, Quite, Good value for money
Disadvantages:
Not a very high capasity
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
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 what you are doing, its easy. If you don't know what you are doing there are helpful websites that can help, or you can just take it down to PC world, or some other computer shop and they should be able to fit it for you.
Over all this is a good value for money hard disk, and in my opinion, You cant go wrong with a Hitachi Deskstar
Features: Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor, giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology, load/unload technology, Temperature sensor, load/unload technology, Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor, Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML), giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology, load/unload technology, antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media
Compliant Standards: S.M.A.R.T.
Performance
Drive Transfer Rate: 100 MBps (external) / 94.6 MBps (internal)
Seek Time: 8.8 ms (average)
Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm
Reliability
Non-Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^14
Start / Stop Cycles: 50,000
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces: 1 x ATA-100 - 40 PIN IDC
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
Manufacturer's product description
The Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 extends the company's long-standing tradition of performance leadership. Hitachi's standardized features in desktop solutions enable fast transfer rates, low power utilization and quiet acoustics. These features combine to make the 7K80 ideal not only for standard PC systems but also for ATA entry-servers, personal video recorders and other non-PC computing requirements. Hitachi is dedicated to provide a breadth of hard disk drive solutions to satisfy all of today's demanding computing needs.
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 5 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 55 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 8 - 80%
Shock Tolerance: 55 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 350 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance: 0.67 g @ RMS (random) (operating) / 1.04 g @ RMS (random) (non-operating)
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