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Features: Giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology
Performance
Drive Transfer Rate: 160 MBps (external) / 50 MBps (internal)
Seek Time: 6.8 ms (average) / 15 ms (max)
Track-to-Track Seek Time: 0.6 ms
Average Latency: 4.17 ms
Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm
Reliability
Non-Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^13
Start / Stop Cycles: 50,000
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces: 1 x Ultra160 SCSI
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
Manufacturer's product description
The Ultrastar 36LP is designed to provide a reliable, cost-effective storage solution for a wide range of workstations, high-performance desktop systems, and LAN and enterprise servers running a variety of Internet, intranet, CAD/CAM, multimedia, transaction processing, and data mining applications. Ultrastar 36LP drives achieve a high level of reliability, performance, and affordability by leveraging advanced IBM disk drive technologies, including: giant magneto resistive (GMR) head technology, No-ID sector formatting, the Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML) digital data channel, and a new integrated Large Scale Integration (LSI) chip for advanced hardware automation.
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 5 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 55 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 8 - 90%
Shock Tolerance: 45 g @ 2ms (operating) / 225 g @ 2ms (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance: 0.67 g @ RMS (random) (operating) / 1.04 g @ RMS (random) (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: 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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Advantages: Great value for money Disadvantages: Only ATA100
...IBM/Hitachi are very well known for their quality hard drives, well at least up until their 120GXP range which had abnormally high returns rates within a few short months of purchase but thankfully the problems they had with the 120GXP have been ironed out in their 180GXP range.
I have had my 120Gb 180GXP for around 5 months now and the only problem I have had with it was last week when it suffered a bad sector that prevented me from booting but was sorted out no problems using Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test utility.
I have my hard drive split into 3x40Gb partitions (which I soon regretted due to the amount of data I have). With quick access rates it proves a great drive, especially with its 8Mb of cache and is also fairly quiet which is what most people need these days with them being left running for longer periods of time...
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