alaTest USA - Product Tests & Reviews

Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B User Reviews

Hard drive - 160 GB - internal - 2.5" - SATA-300 - 5400 rpm - buffer: 8 MB More product details

Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B
alaSCORE BETA 94

154 reviews

November, 2009

68 / 100

10 Experts

Product Age

old
new

84 / 100

144 Users

Showing 1 - 3 of 3 Show Reviews: in English | in other languages (13)
US

alaTest collected and analyzed 112 user reviews of the Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B from newegg.com. The average user rating from newegg.com is 84 out of 100.

Quotes

At least it lasted 5 weeks- just out of the return period

It is the right form factor. Plenty of storage ; The drive worked fine for about a month in my Macbook Pro, dual booting into Mac/Vista when it began ...

Big

Would have returned the drive, but I was not sure if the sounds and behavior were within tolerances. I did not want to have to fork over any money for...

Drive arrived dying

You would think Hitachi would remove the name DeskStar from it's line of drives since many still recall the IBM DeathStar and the click of death. This...

So far, so good.

Installed this after a scorpio black turned my notebook into a MacVibrator. Loads of fun but not conducive to productivity. Specs may be slightly lowe...

US

alaTest collected and analyzed 10 user reviews of the Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B from amazon.com. The average user rating from amazon.com is 66 out of 100.

Quotes

Easy swap

Easy swap HITACHI 0A56415 2.5-Inch 250GB 5400 RPM SATA Internal Hard DriveUpgraded my Dell Insperon laptop with this hard drive, loaded my old files a...

Fantastic Value

Fantastic Value I bought this drive (actually 3 of them) because I needed more storage capacity on my computer and wasn't happy with the performance o...

ABSOLUTELY THE BEST !!!!

ABSOLUTELY THE BEST !!!! I own 4 of these drives and they are by far the best performers I have ever owned. they are easy to set up, and very well mad...

HITACHI 0A56415 2.5-Inch 250GB 5400 RPM SATA Internal Hard Drive

HITACHI 0A56415 2.5-Inch 250GB 5400 RPM SATA Internal Hard Drive I bought this hardrive for my daughter's laptop to replace her smaller 70GB hardrive.

GB

alaTest collected and analyzed 9 user reviews of the Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B from amazon.co.uk. The average user rating from amazon.co.uk is 89 out of 100.

Quotes

Installed and working

Installed and working Lack of instructions means rooting around the internet for help. However, the unit works and provides the backup I was looking f...

Hitachi HD

Hitachi HD It's a hard disk. I put it in my computer and it works.. what else can I say?

5 star hard drive

5 star hard drive what can i say
cheap
works great
quality
***** rateing

Superb all rounder

Superb all rounder I bought this to add capacity for video and TV recording storage. It installed easily of course. Plug and Play. I used the Hitachi ...

Average Rating

89

Showing 1 - 3 of 3 in English

See user reviews in other languages (13)

Compare Prices

loading...

loading...

Search results - you may continue typing to narrow your search.

loading

loading

loading

loading...