Travelstar 7K200

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I can not tell you right now but will look and see if I can find anything useful. I will tell you I have Hitachi 160GB's @5400 w/perpendicular technology and it is good so if this is an extension of that technology it looks good. 200GB's @7200 sounds very new.

 

Nobody bothers to search anymore

 

you might be good! I got my eye on you!

 

Can you enable AAM on your Hitachi 160GB 5400RPM? I have a 5K160 too, and it says "AAM not supported" when I run Hitachi Feature Tools.

 

Help I'm slow bad upbringing! what is AAM? And what are Feature Tools, need to know!

 

Hey I just found out about it and was pretty enthusiastic. Cut me some slack!
I was quite happy to see I dont have to choose between rotational speed and capacity. I can have both!

BTW nice notebook you have there. To get 3 disks you have to lose the optical right?

 

Nope. Optical also, 8X High Speed Dual Layer +/- DVD-RW

 

That 7k200 is oooooh so sexy. The fastest notebook drive on the market, by far. Everyone wants 'em, nobody has 'em in stock.

 

Just make sure if your notebook can support it...to get the 3.0GB/sec interface and not the 1.5GB/Sec interface. A3 = 3.0 and SA = 1.5 in the last few letters of the drives model number.

 

Im pretty sure Dell has some sort of hold on these for like 3 months I heard it was. We have HDTune results up just search for them.

The person that tested it got it for 250$, not sure how/where he got it since it is supposed to be dell excuslive for abit. But 250$ sounds about right.

I highly recomend a high capacity 5400rpm drive instead. The price/performance/storage ratios are much higher and it performs nearly on par.

 

AAM = Automatic Acoustic Management. Enabling it quiets the clatter that you hear when there is disc activity. The 5K160 SATA is the first Hitachi drive in which I haven't been able to enable it. But mine is OEM (came in my Compaq laptop), so I'm curious whether retail (or other OEM) 5K160 drives are affected as well.

Hitachi Feature Tools lets you view/adjust drive features (such as AAM, Advanced Power Mangement, SMART, caching, UATA/SATA settings, drive temp., etc.). You can get it from here:
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm?linkto=QL

 

SATA is backwards compatible. You can use a 300MB/s SATA2 drive in a notebook that has a 150MB/s SATA controller, and vice versa.

Actually, SATA2 is quite a waste in a notebook. There is NO notebook hard drives that can even come close to 150MB/s of SATA (no, not even this sexy 7k200) so there's ZERO benefit to the 300MB/s interface. Further, the SATA2 300MB/s interface consumes more power than 150MB/s SATA interface does. Personally, I'd pick the 150MB/s version and run that in my SATA2 notebook.

So SATA2 in a notebook = less battery run time and no additional performance.

 

Dell doesnt have a hold on them, that I know of. I have 3 of the 1.5GB/sec in my D901C. But the company that put them in messed up, I told them I wanted the A3 Model and not the SA model....grrr. I have to call them tomorrow to sort it out. Maybe the A3's aren't available atm? Dunno.

I have a DTR...my battery lasts an hour...I don't care about it sucking more juice...suck away!

 

Don't forget to order a faster pair of headphones and a faster chair to sit in. Don't forget the faster laptop carrying bag. They'll give you the same performance boost as switching to SATA2 will.

 

Guys, try froogle.google.com and search 7k200, you can find a lot vendors...

 

These things are easily the best notebook hard drive. The reasons are obvious.

 

x2. Best. Notebook HDD. Ever.

 

Mwave
or much cheaper ZipZoomFly
Man I am so mad that my work is slacking off right now. I really want to get one of these for my laptop. And probably and extra battery for those long trips on caltrain.

 

I was set on the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160GB drive, but after reading this post it seems the Hitachi is the better drive. Gotta make a decision soon..

 

Between the two, the Hitachi is the better buy if the extra cash isn't a problem. Hitachi's notebook drives are even considered better than Seagate's at several price points and at certain intervals of product releases.

 

Hitachi is really moving ahead these days. They have the fastest notebook drive (7k100) which is way ahead of the next nearest competitor (7200.2).

They also have the 7k1000 on the desktop - the only Terabyte drive on the market, plus it's the only drive to have 32MB of cache!

Go Hitachi go! Competition and innovation are always a welcome thing!

 

Is this the only 200GB 7200rpm notebook drive on the market? If it is, maybe I should change my m1330 dell order to include this option as I cannot find this drive in Canada for a reasonable price.