Advantages: Value for money, great performance, additional drive utilities , SATA 300Gb/s Disadvantages: Little noisy
...download a special utility from Hitachi website to enable SATA 300Gb/s. Their website is at http://www.hitachigst.com
With Windows XP 64bit version, I did a speed test which is available via the Device Manager and achieved 125 Gb/s burst rate. After I changed the drive to support SATA 300Gb/s, I was able to achieve 190Gb/s burst rate. Which is still lower than the theoretical 300Gb/s. I guess the drives are not still fast enough to take advantage ... ...could have been made better I guess.
Please note that SATA II is not SATA 300Gb/s. SATA II is a new SATA technology which is still on the drawing board. Some people have confusingly used the wrong terminology to describe SATA 300Gb/s.
Link to Hitachi website http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8ad64ff886ef0714e85c1a70eac4f0a0/ ...
solaris1201 08.06.2006
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Advantages: SATA so fast, smaller cables, easy to install Disadvantages: Can be loud when reading/writing
I wanted an SATA hard drive so bought this one on the back of great reviews with impressive test results when compared to comparative rival hard disks of similar price. I originally wanted an SATA 150 hard drive as that's all my motherboard can support, however this drive was marginally more expensive so I opted for this one, as, being SATA 2 it will be suitable for the future in a new PC. This drive performs far quicker than my old IDE hard drive ... ...diagnostic programs. As is made obvious from my earlier statement it is like most SATA 2 hard drives backwards compatible with SATA 150. There's not really too much more to say about a hard drive other than that it is quiet most of the time but makes the usual noises during read and write it is slightly louder than my old IDE drive but nothing extreme. Installation was easy and the new cabling system used by SATA is much better for system air flow.
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thisperson3785 30.01.2006
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