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...
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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...
Postage & Packaging: £6.50 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Advantages: Fast, Sata, Quite Cheap, Reliable Disadvantages: Have to use Hitachi Software to Enable Sata II
I was looking for something fast with a lot of storage for my new gaming PC that most of all I could rely on; I chose this drive because Hitachi is a big brand and one that has a good reputation for reliability. I managed to pick up this drive for £44 inc. VAT which is a complete steal for a Hitachi drive.
If you buy the retail version you will get a 130 page instruction manual with every little detail about the drive in it as well as all the screws, cables etc but to be honest your much better off buying a OEM version which is identical but doesn't have all the nice packaging and screws etc so you end up saving about £15 or more.
The installation is as easy as any other hard drive, just plug in the power and S-ata cables and your away. The only downside with this is to enable s-ata II which gives you a much faster transfer speed ...
Advantages: Value for money, great performance, additional drive utilities , SATA 300Gb/s Disadvantages: Little noisy
Product Description HitachiDeskStarT7K250 - 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 ...
Advantages: Reliable, Quick, Quite, Good value for money Disadvantages: Not a very high capasity
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 HitachiDeskstar'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 ...
8.5 ms (average) / 14.7 ms (max), 8.5 ms (average) / 15.1 ms (max), 8.5 ms (average)
Track-to-Track Seek Time
0.8 ms, 1.1 ms
Average Latency
4.17 ms, 8.3 ms
Spindle Speed
7200 rpm
Internal Data Rate
94.6 MBps, 124.8 MBps, 124.3 MBps, 105.4 MBps
Reliability
Non-Recoverable Errors
1 per 10^14
Start / Stop Cycles
50,000
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces
1 x Serial ATA-300 - 7 pin Serial ATA, 1 x Serial ATA-150 - 7 pin Serial ATA, 1 x Serial ATA-300, 1 x ATA-133 - 40 PIN IDC
Compatible Bays
1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
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) / 350 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (non-operating), 55 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating)
Vibration Tolerance
0.56 g @ RMS (random) (operating) / 1.04 g @ RMS (random) (non-operating), 0.67 g @ RMS (random) (operating) / 1.04 g @ RMS (random) (non-operating)
Sound Emission
30 dB
Manufacturer warranty
Service & Support Details
Limited warranty - 3 years
Service & Support
3 years warranty
Environmental standards
EPA Energy Star Compliant
Yes
Manufacturer's product description
The Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 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 Deskstar T7K250 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.
