The Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 series delivers a winning combination of characteristics. With the industry's lowest idle power and enhancements to the mechanical and electrical... more
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Features: Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor, Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML), giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology, load/unload technology, TrueTrack servo technology, antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media, Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor, Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML), giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology, Enhanced Adaptive Battery Life Extender 3.0, TrueTrack servo technology, antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media
Compliant Standards: S.M.A.R.T.
Performance
Drive Transfer Rate: 100 MBps (external) / 61.6 MBps (internal)
Seek Time: 12 ms (average)
Average Latency: 5.5 ms
Spindle Speed: 5400 rpm
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces: 1 x ATA-100, 1 x ATA-100 - 44 PIN IDC
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 2.5" x 1/8H
Manufacturer's product description
The Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 series delivers a winning combination of characteristics. With the industry's lowest idle power and enhancements to the mechanical and electrical design, this 5400 rpm drive is the ideal choice for notebook PCs. The Travelstar 5K100 is the best all-around 2.5" hard drive. The Travelstar 5K100 is the centerpiece of a new line-up of strong contenders.
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 5 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 55 °C
Shock Tolerance: 300 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 1000 g @ 1ms half-sine pulse (non-operating)
Advantages: Quite, low power consumption, high capacity Disadvantages: Expensive
...I have been using a HitachiTravelStar 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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Advantages: Reliable, Quick, Quite, Good value for money Disadvantages: Not a very high capasity
...If you are looking for an 80GB 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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Advantages: Easy Install - a dummy cna do it, I did! Very fast and quiet in use. Disadvantages: None I can tell
...Being fairly hardware illerate, I put off replacing the HDD on my Dell Inspiron laptop as long as I could. Once it started to take 25 minutes to boot up and generated about 15 red alerts in the Windows XP event log, I thought "I am really going to have to go for it".
I had an IBM 60 GB HDD in place, which was noisy when spinning, set the fan off incessantly and was constantly giving me Blue Screen of Death (BSODs).
I started by internet researching and using the Dell forum to suss out the right disk to replace mine with. Taking a recommendation from a forum member, I looked first of all at the Travelstar 7K80 but decided to go for the newer version. I replaced a 60GB 5400rpm HDD with a 80GB 7200rpm HDD.
I spent a day copying filed to CD, all my docs, pictures, music, software downloads, license/registration numbers etc...
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I ordered my Archos 605 80gb wifi from curry's digital and went to collect in store. After the first charge which takes forever using the supplied usb connector (48 hours for the charge light to flash fully charged) I was ready to start using my... more
here your looking at one of the best archos devices available, in comparison to the 705 version this easily has better preformance and i built to last, having studied the 705 i found it was expencive especially when you have to buy all those extras such... more
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