Reviews for Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 HDS725050KLA360 500 GB Internal Hard Drive - OEM

Finally got 1/2 TB solution with the optimum...

Strengths: Got the highest capacity drive, suitable for NAS & SAN boxes. Fastest data transfer speed. Optimum performance in Multi-drive systems.

Weakness: Nothing

It really work in the AV system. Example: we put it with the Audio Video company where they are capture the image, storing it and at the same time broacasting that image to the users. So there it works smoothely whereas other drives fails. Because of the big buffer size and double transfer speed, the performance of the drive, increases.

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Blazingly Fast 3gb/s sata 2

Strengths: Best sata 2 transfer speed-- 5YR hitachi warranty Reliable and quiet operation

Weakness: none

In the past 6 months i have built 30 desktop PC's and have used numerous drives from-Seagate,Maxtor,West Digital,Quantum. And none come close to the speed and performance of this Hitachi drive. Using Hitachi's software you can enable sata II transfer option and double transfer speeds up to 3gb/s It also has a 5 yr warranty. You cant do better than this drive for the price.

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Great Drive

Strengths: Space, speed, compatability

Weakness: 7200 rpm max

I've used the 7Kxxx series Hitachi drives for the last three years. They have proven very reliable even in my overheating server room. The new 500 GB drives work well with my 3Ware raid controller (access light and all) & together show a write speed of just over 70MB/sec using 'dd' under linux.

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Hidden problems built into this drive!

Strengths: Lots of storage

Weakness: The HDD LED feature does not work; this is a firmware problem that has been known to Hitachi for some time. Also, these drives and Hitachi's InfoTool do not work properly w/Promise SATA300 TX4 card.

The HDD LED feature does not work; this is a firmware problem that has been known to Hitachi for some time, and they have yet to do anything to fix it. You may guage HDD access using pins on the motherboard, but if you use a drive cartridge (e.g., a CRU Dataport 10), you will not see any indication of HDD access on the cartridge's in-built access LED! Additionally, when the Acoustic Management feature of the drive is ENABLED AND the drive is attached to a Promise SATA II controller card (e.g., the SATA300 TX4), the drive suddenly has horrible seek times, and in my case, these actually corrupted a clean Windows XP SP2 OS to the point where it was necessary to re-clone to the drive from an image! Moreover, Hitachi's "Feature Tool", which is required to change drive settings such as SATA 1.5Gb/s versus 3.0GB/s mode, will NOT recognize Promise controller cards, and thus it is necessary to make changes to the drive's settings using ports in-built on the motherboard. However, this can be a HUGE problem if the drive has been set to 3.0 GB/s mode AND your moterboard either a) has only 1.5 GB/s ports (hence the need for a controller card) or b) has no SATA ports at all. ADVICE: Unless you will be satisfied using this drive ONLY in SATA I mode only, you should NOT purchase it for use with a motherboard that lacks in-built SATA II ports. Also, if you plan to go ahead and use this drive with a Promise controller card, be aware that you will not be able to change the drive's settings in your system once you have "graduated" to 3.0GB/s mode; rather, you would have to make such settings changes within a different system that has a motherboard with in-built SATA II ports. Finally, DO NOT enable the MANUFACTURER RECOMMENDED Acoustic Management feature if you plan to use the drive with a Promise controller card, as this will royally screw your system! Unfortunately, when Acoustic Management is DISABLED, which is what you would need with a Promise controller, the drive is VERY rackety (noisy)! For all this, I give the drive three stars! Hitachi needs to get on the ball and work with Promise to ensure that its Feature tool will function with Promise's controller cards as well as to fix the serious performance failure that occurs when Acoustic Management is enabled. Moreover, Hitachi needs to fix their RIDICULOUS HDD LED FAILURE issue in the drive's firmware (SHAME ON HITACHI for letting this get out the door).

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Stable and Fast

Strengths: Fast. Big Cache. Lots of space.

Weakness: The first two Arrived DOA

I've now got three of these in a stripped array. Each drive proveds 465.75 GB for an array of 1.37 TB. The Array has been running for a while and I've moved 1.1 TB of data back and forth from the drives several times with no issues. I'm ordering two more now to expand the array.

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Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 HDS725050KLA360 500 GB...

Strengths: lots of storage and fast access of data

Weakness: dosen't come in 10k, 12k, and 15k versions

recently bought 2 of these monster storage drives
which equals to a full terabyte of storage which
means i have one less major problem to think
about for quite awhile despite the fast growing
need for larger hdd storage capacities.

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Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 HDS725050KLA360 500 GB...

Strengths: huge storage(500gb) and fast access at reasonable price along with hitachi high quality

Weakness: does not come 10k, 12k, 15k like fiber channel and scsi hard disk drives.

as things stand now, the current 7200rpm version
still offers fast access to data and with hitachi's
great reputation for innovations and high quality
i'm sure they're working on 10k, 12k, and 15k
versions and will soon become reality.

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ReviewGist for Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 500 GB SATA Hard Drive

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Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 500GB SATA300 HDS725050KLA360

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