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Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 80GB 7200RPM SATA2 Hard Drive

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005 | Hard Drive Reviews, Reviews

The Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 is a notable drive from this long time hard drive manufacturer. It is not the biggest hard drive on offer, and pretty small for a modern drive, but there are other benefits.

The main selling point of this drive is it’s price, at only around $60 dollars, it costs little compared to many of the high end offerings.

At a glance…

• 80GB drive size
• SATA2
• Single platter

The 80GB of space is provided by a single disk platter inside the drive. Inside a drive there are one or more disks (called platters). Bigger drives now have up to 5 platters inside. There is only so much that can be squeezed onto a platter with current technology so upping the number of platters is the current solution for large size drives.

SATA2 is also something unusual for a drive of this size. Mostly newer and bigger drives offer this technology, but even then it really makes no difference. Most hard drives can’t even deliver enough to fully utilise the 150MB/s bandwidth of SATA let alone the 300MB/s of SATA2. Still a nice extra though.

In terms of it’s actual performance its midfield. Nothing too spectacular and no major letdowns.

Amongst modern drives it boasts of average everything. Average I/O, access times and write transfer. However, it does boast a high bandwidth over its connection of 118MB/s. It’s file writing speeds fall only slightly behind it’s bigger brothers.

Another great feature is that it runs very cool.

Some modern drives like the Western Digital Raptor drives run very hot and actually need cooling. At only 41 degrees Celcius it will keep your computer’s insides cool.

Overall a good bargain

Pros

• Runs very cool
• Easy on your pocket
• SATA2 technology

Cons

• Small storage size compared to other modern drives

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