Hitachi 3 GB Microdrive

Hitachi 3 GB Microdrive

User Rating: Hitachi 3 GB Microdrive (18 reviews)
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pcmag.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4 star(s) Hitachi Deskstar 7K400

QuickTake:

Pros: Large capacity, good performance ;
Cons: Expensive ; slightly noisier than other desktop drives ;
techtree.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 2.5 star(s) Hitachi Deskstar 7K500

Comments:
It's time for a whopping half a Terabyte drive. Read on to know more about this drive and its performance

Review Verdict: Type the characters you see in the picture below

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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.
itp.net Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4 star(s) Product Reviews: Hitachi Deskstar 7K500

Comments:
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 than

Review Verdict: Along with its monstrous storage capacity, this Deskstar is an agile performer and offers good value.

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goodgearguide.com.au Professional Review.

Product Rating: 3 star(s) Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 400GB

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Review Verdict: Judging by the performance results, it seems that the other manufacturers have caught up to Hitachi and now offer more competitive products at more competitive prices.

Read full review at goodgearguide.com.au

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Pros: Fluid dynamic bearings, 250MB - fast seek times
Cons: 400GB - abysmal seek times, 400GB - runs too hot
trustedreviews.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4 star(s) Deskstar 7K500 Hard Drive

Comments:
Hitachi takes storage to the next level with the first 500GB hard disk drive. But is its performance as impressive as its capacity?

Review 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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maxpc.co.uk Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4.3 star(s) Deskstar 7K400

Comments:
Never run out of disk space ever again. Well, not for a long time anyway.

Review Verdict: If storage is what you want, then this is the beast for you.
maximumpc.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 3.5 star(s) Hitachi Deskstar T7K500

Comments:
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!) product

Review 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 set

Read full review at maximumpc.com

QuickTake:

Pros: Easy to install into a computer. Uh. Nicely constructed. Pretty exterior ;
Cons: Slow performance when compared to other 500GB models. Feh ;
hardwarezone.com Professional Review.

Product Rating: 4.5 star(s) Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 400GB (7200RPM)

Comments:
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.

Read full review at hardwarezone.com

xbitlabs.com Professional Review.

Deskstar 7K400 Hard Drive

Comments:
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 process

Review 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.

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newbie.org Professional Review.

Product Rating: 5 star(s) Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 400 GB Hard Drive

Comments:
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 also

Read full review at newbie.org

QuickTake:

Pros: Huge Capacity, ultra speed with whisper free noise level
Cons: None
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Overall Rating: 9.1
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