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A review by mags1951 on Hitachi TravelStar 7K100 80 GB August 7th, 2006
Author's product rating:
Memory / capacity
Excellent
Reliability
Excellent
Ease of Installation
Excellent - very quick and easy
Speed
Very fast
Value For Money
Excellent
Advantages:
Easy Install - a dummy cna do it, I did ! Very fast and quiet in use .
Disadvantages:
None I can tell
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
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 and wrote several pages noting the configuration, location and programs that I had added. It was worth the effort.
When it came it was next day delivery and reasonably priced from Dabbs.com. IT just went straight in OK(after I had transferred the 'pins adaptor' from the old HDD to the new one - see the Dell forum if you have a Dell, it may not be the same if you have a different laptop).
The laptop saw it straight away, I booted from the Windows disk and it did all the work, leading me by the hand through partitioning, formatting and then the Windows install. I was so surprised, it was a dream!
HIGHLY recommended drive, very very fast data retrieval, very very quiet operation and didn't cost the earth like other drives.
Drive Transfer Rate: 100 MBps (external) / 70.1 MBps (internal)
Seek Time: 10 ms (average) / 18 ms (max)
Track-to-Track Seek Time: 1 ms
Average Latency: 4.2 ms
Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm
Reliability
Start / Stop Cycles: 600,000
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces: 1 x ATA-100 - 44 PIN IDC
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 2.5" x 1/8H
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)
Manufacturer's product description
The Travelstar 7K100 is Hitachi's second generation 7200 RPM 2.5-inch hard drive which offers leading-edge capacity, performance, durability and power utilization on a proven product platform. The 7K100 provides a 33% boost in sustained data rate over the record-setting Travelstar 7K60. Optimizations in the femto-based actuator/suspension system enable the 7K100 to endure 300Gs of operating shock, 1,000Gs of non-operating shock and 600,000 load/unload cycles, and contributes to its highly durable and rugged design. Enhanced Adaptive Battery Life Extender (ABLE) is Hitachi's third generation unique power management technology that significantly reduces power consumption, resulting in superior battery utilization and enhanced service life of host systems using the drive. This combination of capacity, speed, durability, quiet operation and optimum power efficiency on a proven platform for quality and reliability, enables the 7K100 to deliver desktop-like performance to notebook PCs and other compact, high-end devices.
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