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Hitachi 250GB hard disk drive Deskstar SATA II 300 7200rpm 8MB
- Manufacturer: Hitachi
- Manf Code: 0A33423
- Quick Code: S011888
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Description
The Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 extends on the companies reliability and performance leadership. Hitachi’s standardized features in consumer and mid-range server solutions to enable faster transfer rates, scalable performance and quicker boot up times.
Hitachi is dedicated to providing a breadth of hard disk drive products to satisfy all of today’s demanding computing needs. Hitachi hard drives are backed by an array of technical support and services which may include customer and integration service.
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Customer Reviews
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| Data transmission | |
|---|---|
| Data transfer rate (max) (Mbit/s) | 998 |
| Drive device, transfer rate (MB/s) | 300 |
| Disk drive | |
| Hard disk drive capacity (GB) | 250 |
| Drive device, buffer size (MB) | 8 |
| Hard disk rotational speed (RPM) | 7200 |
| Disk Rotational Speed (RPM) | 7200 |
| Rotational Speed (RPM) | 7200 |
| Hard disk interface | SATA |
| Hard disk size (") | 3.5 |
| Hard disk average seek time (ms) | 8.5 |
| Internal | Y |
| Hard disk number of heads | 3 |
| Drive Buffer Size (MB) | 8 |
| Hard disk capacity (GB) | 250 |
| Energy management | |
| Power requirements | +5VDC (+-5%), +12 VDC (+10%) |
| Environmental conditions | |
| Operating temperature range (T-T) (°C) | 0 - 60 |
| Storage relative humidity range (%) | 5-95 |
| Storage temperature range (T-T) (°C) | -40-70 |
| Operating relative humidity range (%) | 8-90 |
| Weight & dimensions | |
| Weight (g) | 640 |
| Height (mm) | 26.1 |
| Depth (mm) | 147 |
| Width (mm) | 101.6 |
alaTest has collected and analysed 218 reviews of Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 500GB from international magazines and websites.
| Rating | 90 |
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| Title | Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 400GB (7200RPM) |
| Reviewed By | CPU-zilla |
| Summary | The new Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 is currently the largest 7200RPM desktop hard drive on earth. Find out what are some of the new technologies Hitachi has introduced in this drive and how this highly anticipated product performed in our lab test. |
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| Rating | 80 |
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| Title | Product Reviews: Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 |
| Reviewed By | Jason Saundalkar |
| Summary | Using the HD Tach3 benchmark, the drive proved an impressive performer. It finished with a random seek time of 12.9ms, while average read and burst speeds were 51.2Mbytes/s and 130.2Mbytes/s. The 500 is only 0.4ms slower in terms of seek performance ... |
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| Verdict | Along with its monstrous storage capacity, this Deskstar is an agile performer and offers good value. |
| Rating | 86 |
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| Title | Deskstar 7K400 |
| Reviewed By | Henry Tucker |
| Summary | Never run out of disk space ever again. Well, not for a long time anyway. |
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| Verdict | If storage is what you want, then this is the beast for you. |
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| Title | Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 400 GB SATA Hard Drive |
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| Summary | This Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 is a 400GB, standard hard disk drive. Compared to other standard hard drives on the market, it is midpriced at around $190. Compared to a typical hard drive, its maximum internal data transfer rate of 94.6 MBps is very fast ... |
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| Rating | 100 |
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| Title | Product Reviews: Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 |
| Reviewed By | Jason Saundalkar |
| Summary | The drive runs just a little warm to the touch, even after hours of intensive use, so you needn't worry about having to actively cool it by using a drive cooler or standalone cooling fan. The Deskstar is also almost inaudible, even when performing ... |
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| Verdict | If you're after loads of hard disk space and lightening responsiveness on a budget, the Hitachi's Deskstar 7K400 is currently the buy of choice. |
| Rating | 70 |
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| Title | Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 |
| Reviewed By | David Murphy |
| Summary | We'll get the bad news out of the way first. Hitachi's Deskstar T7K500 hard drive, with an easy-to-remember 500GB of storage, is unremarkable. More than that, it underperforms when compared to similarly featured, similarly priced (if not cheaper!) ... |
| Pros | Easy to install into a computer. Uh. Nicely constructed. Pretty exterior |
| Cons | Slow performance when compared to other 500GB models. Feh |
| Verdict | When compared against the sea of drives that sit in our Lab, the Deskstar's average read speed is barely better than the Seagate 400GB Barracuda 7200.8's-a PATA drive, mind you. And SATA models from both Samsung and Western Digital (which have feature ... |
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| Title | Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 |
| Reviewed By | James Morris |
| Summary | Hitachi has always liked high numbers. It was the first company to release a 400GB disk, and has just released a single drive containing a... |
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| Verdict | The once great DeskStar series is starting to look a bit long in the tooth |
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| Title | Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 |
| Reviewed By | Alex Watson |
| Summary | Bigger isn't always better. Big cars pollute the air, giant credit card debts are threatening to swallow the UK economy and obese people are taking... |
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| Verdict | Capacious but costly |
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| Title | Hitachi DeskStar 7K500 500GB Hard Drive | silentpcreview.com |
| Reviewed By | Mike Chin |
| Summary | Hitachi's 500G flagship 7,200rpm HDD with 5 platters and 16mb of cache comes under the scrutiny of SPCR's audioscope. |
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| Verdict | Like all the other high capacity HDDs we've seen thus far, the 7K500 is not a quiet drive. SPL measurements suggest the 7K500 is the noisiest by a small margin, but the numbers don't really tell the whole story. |
| Rating | 100 |
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| Title | Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 400 GB Hard Drive |
| Reviewed By | Art Vanderlay |
| Summary | I bought this disk drive few days back and thoroughly impressed with its amazing performance. This disk drive comes with a huge capacity of 400 GB to store up MP3s, photo albums and other important data. It runs at an ultra fast pace of 7,200 rpm and ... |
| Pros | Huge Capacity, ultra speed with whisper free noise level |
| Cons | None |
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| Rating | 50 |
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| Title | Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 |
| Reviewed By | Milind Bandekar |
| Summary | It's time for a whopping half a Terabyte drive. Read on to know more about this drive and its performance |
| Pros | Good performance, Very quiet, Operates cooler, Low access time, NCQ, 5 years replacement warranty. |
| Cons | Very Expensive, Extra 8 MB buffer doesn't really boost performance, High CPU utilization in HDTach. |
| Verdict | Type the characters you see in the picture below |
| Rating | 80 |
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| Title | Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 400 GB SATA Hard Drive |
| Reviewed By | Soham Raninga |
| Summary | I have been referring to this one in a number of reviews for quite some time and now it's here for real. The highest capacity desktop hard drive has finally arrived in the local market. Primarily meant for power hungry high-end digital media ... |
| Pros | Good performance, High storage capacity, Decent price |
| Cons | Average seek times, Heats up big time |
| Verdict | Before we jump to the benchmarks, we better have a look at the specifications. Looks wise, this drive appears like any other normal desktop hard drive, as it uses the same 3.5" form factor and is built on the same lines. The 400 GB hard drive houses 5 ... |
| Rating | 80 |
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| Title | Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 Hard Drive: Deskstar 7K500 Hard Drive |
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| Summary | Hitachi takes storage to the next level with the first 500GB hard disk drive. But is its performance as impressive as its capacity? |
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| Verdict | Hitachi can legitimately claim that the 7K500 is the first 500GB hard drive on the market but despite the fact it uses SATA-II there's no compelling reason to buy one enormous drive instead of two smaller capacity units. |
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| Title | Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 vs Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400 GB |
| Reviewed By | Tyler Curry |
| Summary | In the past couple years, compared to years before that, we have seen huge advances in the hard drive market. From 250GB in 2003, to 300GB, to 400GB, and now 500GB hard drives starting to be announced. Not only has overall size or platter size ... |
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| Verdict | We've seen a slew of tests with these drives, some predictable, some not. It was surprising to see that when Native Command Queuing was enabled on the Seagate hard drive that it actually had a small negative impact on performance. However, NCQ ... |
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| Title | Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 Hard Drive: Deskstar 7K400 Hard Drive |
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| Summary | We are taking a closer look at a new Hitachi hard disk drive boasting 400GB storage capacity. The combination of excellent performance with a number of exciting features like hot-swapping Serial ATA, active vibration compensation, and commands for ... |
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| Verdict | So what is my opinion about the Deskstar 7K400? Yes, this is a narrowly specialized product since 400GB capacity is not in high demand everywhere, yet this drive has performed excellently across all of my tests. |
