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Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 160GB Hard Drive (Serial ATA-150, 5400 RPM, 8MB - MPN: 0A28844)
Description: With a 160GB capacity, industry-leading performance, low-power consumption and excellent shock resistance, the Travelstar 5K160 has the key attributes to support the stringent demands of portable computing. Improved electronics design furth.... Read More Description: With a 160GB capacity, industry-leading performance, low-power consumption and excellent shock resistance, the Travelstar 5K160 has the key attributes to support the stringent demands of portable computing. Improved electronics design further reduces the power consumption of this 5400 RPM drive, and the 5K160 also runs cooler than the competition. Hitachi has also implemented Thermal Fly-height Control (TFC) for improved error rates, and iridium-manganese-chromium (IrMnCr) read heads for improved reliability. Hitachi has done extensive testing to verify Travelstar 5K160 s best-in-class standing. Minimize |
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| Date Reviewed: 01/19/2007 |
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Strengths: Works great!
Weaknesses: None yet
Summary: I bought this drive as a replacement for my 20GB Seagate that came OEM in my Playstation 3. My idea was to put in this drive, reserve 10GB for 'Other OS' option in the PS3 (for installing Linux at a later date) and put the remainder as the disk system for the PS3. I am planning on turning my PS3 into a music server with ~50GB of MP3's and possibly a media center extender / video capture / DVR functionality.
Anyways, the procedure was flawless. I removed the bottom of the PS3, popped out the drive tray, carefully removed 4 screws to remove the old drive from the tray, and slapped in the new 160GB drive and reassembled. PS3 prompted me to reformat, and then I chose to repartition again, leaving myself the 10GB partition for Linux that I mentioned earlier.
So far so good, everything works great, and the drive is doing exactly what I need. I can't comment yet on reliability since I haven't had it long, but at least it functions as designed.
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| Date Reviewed: 11/04/2006 |
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Strengths: large capacity, PMR technology
Weaknesses: not much faster than previous generation
Summary: I bought this drive to replace a 60GB Fujitsu drive (5400rpm) that came with my Dell E1705. Unlike a previous reviewer who also had an E1705, my laptop recognized the drive properly as 160GB (actually 149GB due to different conversion... 1000MB/GB vs. 1024MB/GB) without need to run any additional software or configuration. Ghost was able to copy my old drive's content onto this Hitachi without any problem. The drive booted the computer with the same configuration just a tab faster than before, but not by any significant amount, though I didn't time it with a stopwatch. Other than that, the drive is definitely a bit more noisier than the Fujitsu, as I can hear the drive much more than before.
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| Date Reviewed: 11/27/2006 |
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 Big Problem Strengths: Capacity
Weaknesses: Reliability
Summary: I have had ths drive four months and it has failed twice. The symptoms are that the immediately after the POST the computer hangs up with a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. I am told that this is due to a faulty Master Boot Record, but it can't be fixed by FIXMBR. The fix requires reformating the disk. Given the time it takes to move 100+ GB around this gets old fast. I had a clone (my original 80 GB drive, but it was 3 months old the first time. The disk is completely readable if you can find an alternate way to boot up. But the process is back up the data, reformat the drive. Clone the image onto the drive. Then find all the files that were changed/added since the image was made. This is not to mentiona ll of the time trying to find a solution that didn't involve a complete reinstall. - Jim
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| Date Reviewed: 08/27/2007 |
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Strengths: superior performance and low power consumption
Weaknesses: none
Summary: Bought this drive for my MacBook 13". I swapped my 60GB 8mb cache 5400rpm drive for this one. I've been using for less than a day and have noticed a definite difference in the following:
1) slightly faster time opening documents
2) significantly faster start-up time
I have not had enough time to evaluate any change in power consumption as yet, if any.
Other observations:
1) I notice no change in noise level. Operation of my MacBook was whisper quiet before, and continues to be whisper quiet now.
2) swapping the hard drives was a cinch. google search "swap macbook hard drive," pick a site, and follow the instructions. I picked up a cheap external USB enclosure at meritline.com, place my old drive inside the enclosure and the new drive in the computer, booted from the USB drive, formated the new internal drive, and then used SuperDuper! to clone from the USB to the new internal drive.
No cons to report. Can find reviews comparing this product to other 160gb laptop hard drives at StorageReview.com, this drive comes out on top!
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| Date Reviewed: 12/14/2006 |
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Strengths: Big, good speed
Weaknesses: none so far
Summary: I've used the 7200RPM 60GB drives for years, but 60GB just isn't big enough for my notebook anymore. I purchased the new 7200RPM 100GB drive for another notebook and it worked great, but it also just wasn't big enough. I was worried that the 5400RPM 160GB (this drive) would be noticeably slower but I was pleasantly surprised between the SATA technology and the perpendicular recording method. I see no significant degradation in speed for almost all of what I do (and for some things, I'm afraid nothing would be fast enough). The drive is very quiet, installed without a problem and has never left me wanting for space (well, I've filled it up a couple of times but only for a bit with large transfers).
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| Date Reviewed: 10/28/2006 |
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Strengths: Small. Same maker of the OEM drive in my Dell. SATA interface and not the Ultra ATA-150 listed on the title (give the part # is actually for the SATA drive). Great price when compared to others...
Weaknesses: Trouble cloning from original drive. Kept wanting to not be recognized as a 160GB drive but rather an 80GB requiring a download tool/program from Hitachi to reallocate it.
Summary: 2006-11-19 19:15:08 When Dell asked for over $400 for their equivalent SATA 2.5 notebook drive, I went hunting for a reasonably priced alternative. The truth is that I got the drive for under $150 from Buy.com and when I removed the original drive from my new E1705 notebook, it turned out that the drive in my notebook was the same Travelstar series drive, only half of the capacity...so, how bad could it be if I located the same series drive as the OEM one? The problem was in the cloning process for the upgrade...the drive did not want to be recognized as a 160GB drive but rather an 80GB. Could have been Dell's fault due to proprietary software or it could have been the drive itself, I do not really know. But after downloading a utility from Hitachi, we were able to reallocate the partitions to recognize the full capacity of the drive. Unfortunately, that meant doing a fresh reload of all DVDs that came with the computer...given that I just got it, there was not much to risk except the software preloaded with the unit...I will report later on the functionality of it.
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