Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B Expert Reviews

Energy efficient, fast

Doesn't do much to distinguish itself from competitors' offerings

The Hitachi 5K500.B does consume less power, but other laptop HDD manufacturers have managed to achieve the same speeds today. So unless you need the power savings or BDE (bulk drive encryption - useful for organisations), this drive doesn't ...

Laptop computers needn't have any less storage than desktops, and the Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B 500GB hard drive from Hitachi proves it.

The Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B does consume less power, but other laptop HDD manufacturers have managed to achieve quite the same speeds today. So unless you need the power savings or BDE (bulk drive encryption - useful for organizations), this drive ...

A large hard disk that encourages low power usage on laptops.

Offers good data transfer rates for a laptop drive

We found the Travelstar 5K320's performance better in terms of overall data throughput and application performance. In our benchmark testing it provided good results, and is definitely quick: We encountered an average random read speed of 46.5 MB/s ...

We expect this to perform similar to the 500GB drive, but the price is sweeter.

Good performance, Huge capacity, Silent, Cool.

Expensive, May not be compatible with all laptops as it is thicker than normal.

The Deskstar P7K500 hard drive provides an exceptional blend of power efficiency and performance making it an ideal solution for consumer and enterprise power-friendly PCs. Leveraging sixth-generation power management technology as well as power ...

duration burner with a low-gigabyte price: For the 24-hour operation has the Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 designed. ...

Especially with computers in the living room, the noise plays an important role. Therefore, it is only logical that the model for Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 fleet access times in favor of a quiet operating noise sacrifices. The transfer rates are not left be...

still quite favorable, there's a gigabyte in the 2.5-inch HDD Hitachi Travelstar 5K320, we examine whether ...

bottom line can the 320-GB model, Hitachi is not a positive surprise. Even ordinary transfer rates are mixed compared to access times. Even with the noise, the Hitachi Travelstar 5K320 HTS543232L9A300 unremarkable at best. Even the more favorable GB-price...