HITACHI Travelstar 7K200 HTS722020K9SA00 (0A50940) 200GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" SATA 1.5Gb/s Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Fast Drive

Reviewed By: ckh20051988 on 8/6/2009

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

Pros: Pretty fast. Average sequential read is around 55-60MB/s and average sequential write is about 50-55MB/s. Runs cool at around 36-43C depending on load. Vibration and sound is insignificant even under load. Have been using for 24 hours/day for everyday and almost a year now. Still no problem.

Cons: Wished it had SATA 3.0Gb/s instead.

Other Thoughts: Quality drive but better drives are already in the market ever since I bought this.

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Reviewed By: on 7/21/2009

Tech Level: high - Ownership: less than 1 day

Pros: none

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: was wondering if user t3t4 had service pack 2 installed the is a barrier there. after installing sp2 you will have a chunk of unpatitioned space, or get a copy of xp with sp2 already installed and reload

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Nice drive and FAST to boot!

Reviewed By: t3t4 on 6/18/2009

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: It's fast, it's quiet, it's thermally efficient! Low heat and awesome speed is why I like it, and this price is dam hard to beat for that kind of performance. Mikey likes it!

Cons: I installed this into a Lenovo R61i laptop which replaced a failed WD 80g 5400rpm drive. The problem I see, it's nowhere near 200 gigs of capacity, it's actually 127 gigs as recognized by windows. Perhaps I should have installed windows in compatible mode via the BOIS, or maybe that has nothing to do with it. I don't know for sure, but I have installed many drives in many computers and have never seen this kind of loss once XP is fully installed. I'm shocked and irritated about this issue, but there you go, that's the worst I can say about this drive thus far.

Other Thoughts: I wish Windows would calculate hard drive capacity the same way hard drive manufacturers do, or vis/versa! If I had it to do over again, I would have done a little more home work. Time was an issue since this was a customers laptop I was working on, bang for the buck is what he wanted so I found my top picks and gave the customer the choice! This drive is what he chose, he's happy and so am I. But knowing now what I didn't know then, I might have pushed for something else. Maybe not, since this is a performer drive, but all that lost capacity keeps me up at night if you know what I mean.

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