hitachi 7k320

In my Lenovo Z61p, the password only works on the primary drive. The BDE drive encryption works off the BIOS password for the specific computer, so moving it to another computer or even another drive location in the same computer to back it up doesn't work (or at least I don't know how).

Since no useful data can be recovered from the platters on this disk, regular backups are key.

So I leave the BDE drive in my laptop as the primary drive and backup to either a drive in the CD/combo drive bay (usually my old non-BDE 320 GB drive) or a USB drive (a slower process).

I've just gotten a 500 GB 5400rpm drive, and I'm going to do Acronis full plus regular incremental backups to it with the 500GB drive in the combo drive location. I already have online backups of key files nightly.

I may also still do a monthly "mirror" backup of the BDE to the non-BDE 320GB. Monthly every couple months or so....

 

It may be available from some EU sources now, too. Google away.

 

Ok, that is what I want. 320 BDE in my laptop, and 320 normal disc in the dock ONLY for backups.

Is it possible to do some mirror image of the laptops HDD? I mean, when the laptops HDD is lost, and I'll buy another HDD, it is simple to put those data back from the dock to laptop? I mean, if I'll "only" backup data as a files, it will not backup some systems things like MBR etc.. I am looking for a backup of the whole system.

 

Yes. Acronis True Image can do this via the "Clone Disk" option -- it maps the whole disk (MBR and all) to the new drive.

So you just Clone from the C: BDE drive to the Ultrabay or doc drive, and it completely overwrites the other drive.

 

I got the hitachi here for 97 shipped with taxes and i have a 20usd rebate on it.

 

+1 its is quieter than my oem toshiba drive.

P.S you guys seem to keep track of P/N Mine is P/N: 0A57547

 

phrider: thanks, thats superb.

Can I ask, did you notice any difference in performance?

 

Commander: There was no difference in performance from my perspective.

porksoda: The 320GB model with the BDE option (model HTS723232L9SA61) is part number 0A57527

 

In case anyone is interested - Zip Zoom Fly is having a sale on Hitachi Travelstar 5K320 320mb sata 5400rpm 8mb buffer notebook hard drives bulk w/ free shipping for $57.99 - $32 instant rebate - $10 mail in rebate = $47.99net cost

 

I know i have a seperate thread for this.. and i had initially posted this under the seagate 7200.4 thread... but i think this thread probably should have my real world benchmarks also included for the HD.

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I had a toshiba hd in it... upgraded to the hitachi.. below is the methodology:

- My current OS my day to day OS is Windows XP Professional XP SP3 up-to-date with windows update.
- Benchmarks were calculated as follows:
- XP Bootup timer was started as soon as bios screen disappeared and stopped as soon as msn showed up.
- CS4 loading time was calculated by as soon as i clicked the icon and as soon as workspace was fully loaded.
- Rar copy and Rar extraction are self explanatory.

For the hitachi drive i did a HD clone so all the variables would be same except the hd and above methodology was observed.

Each bootup included all tests then computer was shutdown and started again and 5 tests were run.

Please allow for +/- 0.6secs for margin of error for all tests.




As its noticeable that synthetic and real world tests show performance increase which was expected.

It is also confirmed overall performance is better... e.g when my email is received i was unable to scroll from email to email... now i can easily. This is no striping vs normal hd performance increase but on a portable machine this is better than stock.

I used the best of the 5 for hdtune benchmarks see below:

Toshiba:



Hitachi:

 

the hitachi drive is on sale at ncix again 80 cdn and then 20 in rebates.

 

Hey everyone!

Great deals on the 7k320 lately... got it for $43 shipped after rebate. But my HD Tune results look weird, just wondering if anyone's seen Access time results like these... it looked like the normal spread until i reformatted with AHCI drivers in my Dell m1330 with 32-bit Vista.

Take a look at the yellow dots. Why are they all before the 65% mark? Thnx to anyone with insight!

 

Your hdtune bandwidth is higher than mine. It looks like Hitachi has changed the firmware to make it better. My drive averages around 60mb/sec and peaks at 75mb/sec
My access times are much lower than yours though.
Here is my 160GB 7K320 hdtune:



65% isnt a mark. That is for 65mb/sec
Look at the other side of the chart, which is labeled in milliseconds. Your seeks are fairly normal. My drive has lower seek times because it had only two heads, and one platter, while yours has 4 heads and two platters

K-TRON

 

Where and when did you get it for $43 after MIR?

 

For $42.60 AR, see http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=1252355

Buy two, use the other w/external case or sell, awesome deal. Assuming you're ok with waiting on rebates.

And as for the 65 mark... i meant 65% horizontally on the graph... is that around 65% of the disk space? Is HD Tune testing the transfer speed along all the platter area basically?

Still not sure why there's a cutoff there, as opposed to what everyone else is getting. And my CPU usage seems high.

The temp was load temp too, after some large file transfers and testing. It idles around 35C/95F.

 

Right, thought it had to be two. Thanks.

 

Did another reformat due to software glitches, and surprised to see significant differences... not much changed in the install process, so I'm not sure what the cause is. But compare it to the original access dot pattern and more importantly CPU usage and transfer rates. I'd say something's more efficient this time around!