The Hitachi Travelstar 5K80 series is a 9.5mm high, 5400 RPM, 2.5-inch mobile hard disk drive ideal for today's data-intensive business needs. The Travelstar 5K80 brings a new... more
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Features: Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor, Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML), giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology, antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media, Adaptive Battery Life Extender (ABLE), Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor, Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML), giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology, TrueTrack servo technology, antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media, 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
Compliant Standards: S.M.A.R.T.
Performance
Drive Transfer Rate: 100 MBps (external) / 56.3 MBps (internal)
Seek Time: 12 ms (average) / 23 ms (max)
Track-to-Track Seek Time: 2.5 ms
Average Latency: 5.5 ms
Spindle Speed: 5400 rpm
Reliability
Non-Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^13
Start / Stop Cycles: 300,000
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces: 1 x ATA-100
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 2.5" x 1/8H
Manufacturer's product description
The Hitachi Travelstar 5K80 series is a 9.5mm high, 5400 RPM, 2.5-inch mobile hard disk drive ideal for today's data-intensive business needs. The Travelstar 5K80 brings a new generation of 5400 RPM mobile solutions to the long legacy of the Travelstar family of hard disk drives. This next generation of mobile hard disk drives provides a design which combines years of research and development with award-winning technology including; Antiferomagnetically-coupled (AFC) technology "pixie dust", Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) heads, Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor technology, Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML) digital channel, head load/unload technology, Enhanced Adaptive Battery Life Extender (ABLE) 3.0, and an ATA/100 interface. With this design, the Travelstar 5K80 provides the storage capacity, performance, power management, quality and acoustics required by demanding computing/application requirements. The new Travelstar 5K80 reaches areal densities of up to 70Gbits/ per square inch written on each disk. This feat was achieved by adding another layer of "Pixie Dust"- or in more technical terms, another ruthenium/magnetic layer to create a fivelayer sandwich called laminated "Pixie Dust". These additional layers bring even higher thermal stability to the media, allowing data recording at ultra-high densities while maintaining data-integrity.
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 5 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 55 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 8 - 90%
Shock Tolerance: 200 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 800 g @ 1ms half-sine pulse (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance: 1 g @ 5-500 Hz (operating) / 5 g @ 22-500 Hz (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: High speed transfer, power consumption low, quiet Disadvantages: usual HDD shock issues
...The HitachiTravelStar is the newly developed model from Hitachi Co. specifically designed for notebooks. It varies in storage capacity, but the important factors are: the rotation speed of 7200 RPM, S-ATA 1.5GB/s interface, and what Hitachi says "a 22% performance increase".
Let's see what are the improvements:
-Having tested the model you get a random access time of 14ms which is extremely faster than it's predecessor and it's competitors;
-A Sequential Transfer rate of 71.5 MB/s (let me say wow-it's very fast)
-It's almost noiseless, you get a 42dB/A idle noise at 3mm distance from the HDD;
-and it's power consumption was reduced(in full load it uses 3W and in idle mode only 1.1W), which means it is very economical.
-the price is in reach;
I think this motivates you in at least trying one...
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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 60GB 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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