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Hitachi's 500GB SATA-II Reviewed

Posted by Zonk on from the big-and-fast dept.

Doggie Fizzle writes "The specifications for the Hitachi Desktstar 7K500 are impressive. 500 GB of disk space, 16 MB of cache memory, and 3.0 Gbps of transfer speeds are about as good as you are going to get in today's hard drives. The only category that might be rivaled is transfer speed, but that would require RAID or an Ultra320 SCSI drive to do so. This BigBruin review matches it up with some Seagate drives to show off its performance."

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  1. 3 gbps? by Bill+Wong · · Score: 3, Interesting

    3 gbps? Is that 375 MB/s? IDE/SATA doesn't support that! What's the point?

  2. LATENCY LATENCY LATENCY by latencylatencylatenc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    LATENCTY LATENCY LATENCY LATENCY LATENCTY LATENCY LATENCY.

    LATENCY is what is causing the slow performance of hard drives, who cares what the MB/s is (its good enough) its the latency that kills you more than anything RAID will not increase LATENCY. RAID can only make things more complex and make it worse (no system can be 100% efficient). RAID can increase MB/s but as I've allready said that isn't a big deal. What we need is lower latency Hard drives. We have enough storage. I don't need 500GB I want good latency.

  3. Re:Deskstar? by Jrono · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have a Hitachi Deskstar 250GB SATA drive that recently died. Its death was similar to the many IBM Deskstars I have had. Fortunately, for Hitachi, it is outside of its one year warranty. Well, fortunately for me too, because now I won't have to worry about random loss of data as much due to using a replacement drive... After many dead IBM Deskstars, and this Hitachi, I will never touch an IBM/Hitachi drive again.
    At the moment, I am going with Seagate. 5 year warranties. I don't have enough personal experience with them yet to know how reliable they really are though.