The Hitachi Travelstar E7K200 is the industry's only third-generation 2.5-inch hard drive with enhanced availability. It delivers double the capacity and a 22% performance... more
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Features: TrueTrack servo technology, Thermal Flyheight Control (TFC), Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR)
Performance
Drive Transfer Rate: 300 MBps (external) / 110 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 Serial ATA-300 - 7 pin Serial ATA
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 2.5" x 1/8H
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 5 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 40 °C
Shock Tolerance: 350 g @ 2ms half-sine pulse (operating) / 1000 g @ 1ms half-sine pulse (non-operating)
Manufacturer's product description
The Hitachi Travelstar E7K200 is the industry's only third-generation 2.5-inch hard drive with enhanced availability. It delivers double the capacity and a 22% performance improvement over its predecessor. Despite the higher spin speed, the E7K200 offers comparably low power consumption, heat emission and acoustics to its counterparts, thereby helping system makers to support energy conservations initiatives without sacrificing performance. In addition, with its higher shock specifications, Travelstar E7K200 is designed to address the needs for rugged, reliable storage in non-stop environments. Hitachi employs specific microcode to allow the Travelstar E7K200 to deliver 24 x 7 access to data. These models broaden the product line to make it more suitable for data intensive applications requiring round-the-clock operation. Travelstar E7K200 provides leadership capacity, performance, durability and power utilization on a proven platform for quality and reliability. The E7K200 can support the stringent demands of "always-on" applications in lower transaction environments.
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 1.5 GB/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: 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 and they receive...
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Advantages: Loads in seconds, Durable, Power Utilized, about 30% extra boost, High Transfer Rate Disadvantages: N/A
...Do you know why I brought Travelstar 7K100? Do you know how much awards it got? 1. Editor's Choice Award, Micro Computer, China, August 2006 2.First Place in "Price-Performance", PC Welt, Germany, March 2006. There're another 2 awards. Feel how nice performance with this hard drive. It gives about 30% boost to your PC. It gives minimum 26 MB/sec transfer rate while a similar product gives 14.1 MB/sec transfer rate. It loads in seconds (approximately 0.30 minutes) and its buffer is 8 MB. Use HD Tune. You may find it!. It moves data faster without unconscious noises. It makes low heat than Fujetsu. 7200rpm is probably nicer with home PC. Hitachi Travelstar provided a remarkably, noticeably smoother experience. It's durable and power utilized....
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