Hitachi Microdrive 3K6 is a 3600 rpm, 1.0-inch hard disk drive designed to meet the needs of high-capacity, ultra-portable electronic devices. The drive holds more than its... more
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Features: Giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology, load/unload technology, No-ID, Enhanced Adaptive Battery Life Extender 3.0, TrueTrack servo technology
Form Factor: 1"
Performance
Seek Time: 12 ms (average) / 24 ms (max), 12 ms (average)
Track-to-Track Seek Time: 1 ms
Average Latency: 8.33 ms
Spindle Speed: 3600 rpm
Reliability
Non-Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^13
Start / Stop Cycles: 300,000
Expansion / connectivity
Compatible Slots: 1 x CompactFlash Card - type II
Manufacturer's product description
Hitachi Microdrive 3K6 is a 3600 rpm, 1.0-inch hard disk drive designed to meet the needs of high-capacity, ultra-portable electronic devices. The drive holds more than its predecessor - more photos, more music, more data - in the same compact size. The new Microdrive 3K6 delivers a higher data rate for improved performance.
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 0 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 70 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 8 - 90%, 5 - 95%
Shock Tolerance: 200 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 2000 g @ 1ms half-sine pulse (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance: 0.67 g @ 5-500 Hz (operating) / 3.01 g @ 5-500 Hz (non-operating)
Advantages: Value for money, great performance, additional drive utilities , SATA 300Gb/s Disadvantages: Little noisy
...Product Description Hitachi DeskStar T7K250 - 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: Very small for Data Capacity, Fast Transfer Rate Disadvantages: Drains Batteries, Moving parts
...The best thing about this is that it’s cool, 4gb all in a thing an inch and a half wide! It’s amazing! The disadvantage to this, however, is the price, in comparison you’re getting 4gb for £179, for that price and only 2 ½ inches wider you could have nearly 300gb! But who cares? It’s small! This great little device works find in most card readers, and the transfer rate is astonishing, I use it for my mp3 player, and it transfers about 10 albums in under 5 minutes on USB 1.1, now that’s not bad! I imagine it would be faster still on USB 2.0.
The thing that worries me with these Microdrives is that they are mini-hard drives. This means that you have very small disks in there spinning very fast, and I’m sure that can’t be too much of a good idea. However, this hasn’t been a problem for me so far, I’ve not exactly treated mine extremely...
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Advantages: Quite, low power consumption, high capacity Disadvantages: Expensive
...I have been using a Hitachi TravelStar for a long time now, I have had not problems with it and I have given it a good run for the price I paid for it.
I originally started out with the 80gb model of this hard disk. I had absolutely no problems with it. (I now have the 100gb model as the laptop it was in was broken in a car accident).
I had the 80gb model for a year and never gave me any trouble. It was:
· Fast
· Reliable
· Quite
· Super low power consumption
· Had a quick spin up time
· Very quick seek time
· Standard 5 year warranty
· Very helpful warranty/customer support
Hitachi's customer warranty claims support is like no other that I have come across before. You go onto there website, fill out a warrant claim form; package the device (hard disk in my case) in the way they require. Once you have sent it to them...
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This MP3 layer is an insult to all other mp3 players out there which actually work. The thing constantly freezes up on you (upon which you have to restart it by pressing the volume up and power key together).
When it freezes the thing will keep... more
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Hard Disk MP3 Recorder / Player
Radio - built in FM tuner & FM recorder
Voice & Radio Recording
Battery Life - 12 hours
Screen Size - 128x128 pixel (1.5 inch LCD)
Screen - high contrast with vivid colour display... more
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