Hitachi 500GB 16MB Cache Sata II Hard Drive Review

8 Sep, 2005 at 2:25pm ET Article published in Tech

Tech Report reviews the Hitachi 500GB 16MB Cache Sata II Hard Drive

Storage would be pretty stagnant if additional gigabytes were all new hard drives had to offer, but there’s more to the Deskstar 7K500 than its copious capacity. The drive also comes equipped with a generous 16MB cache, as well as support for 300MB/s Serial ATA transfer rates and Native Command Queuing—all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a high-end drive. But does it have enough punch to keep up with the latest from Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital? Read on to find out.

The first hard drive I ever bought was 40MB and $450…..we’ve come a long way!

Source: Tech Report

Comments

8 Sep 2005 ~ 9:58pm kanezfan I remember the first time I heard of a 20GB hard drive, I thought holy crap, that's massive, it'll never get filled up. Now I hear about a 500GB hard drive and I think hey, I could fill that up in a couple weeks. I guess in a couple more years Terrabyte hard drives will start becoming common place.
10 Sep 2005 ~ 8:28pm Tim Lot of data to lose in a head crash! I've got a 20 GB that is nearly full, and an 80 GB with about 29 GB open on it.
10 Sep 2005 ~ 8:33pm BlackHawk ...the amount of bible music you could fit in there
14 Sep 2005 ~ 8:34pm RWB

Black Hawk wrote:

...the amount of bible music you could fit in there

My sentiments exactly....
15 Sep 2005 ~ 2:33am bothered I've wondered why nobody has made two drives in one unit. Sort of instant raid.
15 Sep 2005 ~ 4:03am Leonardo

The first hard drive I ever bought was 40MB and $450.....we've come a long way!

That's modern! The first drive I bought was a 3.5GB at $269 at a discount store. The 5GB was just way too expensive. That was after my piece of junk Packard Bell had spit out one after the other two bad 1GB Conner Peripheral hard drives. Oh yeah, and that 100MHz Pentium was a screamer, too!
15 Sep 2005 ~ 9:15am mmonnin That was 40MB not 40GB. Heck I had a 400MB HDD once.
15 Sep 2005 ~ 11:48am gibbonsl

bothered wrote:

I've wondered why nobody has made two drives in one unit. Sort of instant raid.

Lacie and buffalo makes those

re my 1Tb drive:)
15 Sep 2005 ~ 12:07pm bothered

gibbonsl wrote:

Lacie and buffalo makes those

re my 1Tb drive:)

'Gulps'
15 Sep 2005 ~ 4:21pm gibbonsl they also make a 2 Tb drive, oh the things one can do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!