The Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 extends on the companies reliability and performance leadership. Hitachi's standardized features in consumer and mid-range server solutions to enable... more
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Drive Transfer Rate: 300 MBps (external) / 124.8 MBps (internal)
Seek Time: 8.5 ms (average)
Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm
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
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
Manufacturer's product description
The Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 extends on the companies reliability and performance leadership. Hitachi's standardized features in consumer and mid-range server solutions to enable faster transfer rates, scalable performance and quicker boot up times. Hitachi is dedicated to providing a breadth of hard disk drive products to satisfy all of today's demanding computing needs. Hitachi hard drives are backed by an array of technical support and services, which may include customer and integration service.
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 0 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 60 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 8 - 90%
Shock Tolerance: 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: 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...
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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 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...
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