200Gb Hitachi SATA HD

Hi all, has anyone installed this hard drive in their T61 yet?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145160

What's performance like?

 

I just ordered mine today from zipzoomfly.com - $129 and free shipping!

 

You have a link Stallen? When I checked it was $229.99.

 

No I'm a tard... that's a typo. Yes, it was $229. Also found at: http://www.xpcgear.com/0a50940.html for the same price and free shipping. I've never ordred from xpcgear but I have ordered from zipzoomfly in the past and they ship very quickly. It doesn't look like zipzoomfly gets the best reseller ratings. Seems people have trouble sometimes with returns. I don't plan on returning this HDD and if there is any problem I'll just contact Hitachi directly.

 

Let us know how it goes - do you have the 7200.1 Seagate in your T61 currently? That would be great as I also have the same drive in mine - in my past experience the Hitachi 7K100 was quieter, but then again this was in the days of PATA and with AAM on. Let's hope the 7K200 carries on the legacy...

 

I dont have that specific drive but I have this one:

http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_in...7200rpm-8mb-sata-25-0a25025/cName/hard-drives

and it is pretty quiet and fast. Works well, no weird noises from it at all. I had a brief problem with a supposedly misaligned head(which lead to often computer freezes), but I ran TuneUp Utilities' Disk Tuner and it fixed the problem, and now it works like new.

 

Yeah, that's the 7K100 that I was talking about, although in a SATA version.

 

Mines coming today! I'm imaging my laptop in preparation of anything going wrong with the Clone process

 

Great to hear! Hope to hear your feedback! (Do you have the 7200.1 in your laptop?)

 

bump

so is that Hitachi in the first post a good one to get?
is there a 160 GB model version that is cheaper

But i'd rather pay slightly more for a better built HD

 

Try the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160GB drive. I bought it for $116.50 from Dell a few days ago, but that deal has since passed.

 

cool, i'll check it out

 

found the hard drive in the original post for a little cheaper

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10005818&prodlist=dealnews

 

they have 2-day shipping for 2.99 too

 

Item No. Description Price Qty Ext. Price
10005818 HITACHI 0A50940 200GB SATA 7200 RPM 16MB Mobile Hard Drive Bulk ***Free Shipping*** $219.99 1 $219.99

Sub Total: $219.99
Discount: $0.00
Sales Tax: $0.00
Shipping: $2.99

ORDER TOTAL: $222.98


w00t

 

Anybody actually installed the 7k200?..ive heard its slightly too big to fit into t61...but thats just a tiny rumor lol

 

Big rumor! pun intended

The 7K200 is the same size (physically) as any other 2.5" HDD. I have installed two of them on two different T61s. It's an awesome HDD. Very quiet, very fast!!!

 

It fits fine and performance is great. I got the 7K200 and it gets a Vista performance rating of 5.4. Although that probably doesn't mean much, here is the HDTune score. Also the whole computer feels way, way faster now.

 

Pert near gave me a heart attack...

 

Anyone know how fast the 2.5 in/7200rpm Toshiba 320GB drive is going to be?

I am assuming that it is 50% more dense than the 200GB Hitachi 7k200, which means something like 23% faster.

 

Somehow it's hard to believe that improvements in the transfer speeds (though very important for the overall "feel") and slightly lower access times would lead to dramatically faster everyday performance.
Nevertheless, the responses from the early adopters are overwhelmingly positive.
Could it be because they're comparing the new drive to the much slower last gen 5400 rpm ones?
Here is a HDTune test of my 100GB 7K100 Hitachi.
Note that it's managed to get faster burst rate speed:

 

I don't think so. I thought I read they squeezed another platter in to get to 320.

 

Thye 320GB drive is 5400rpm, the 7200rpm drive is 200gigs max with two 100 gig platters

 

You can easily see that the new Hitachis are much faster. In fact once you write 60GB of data the transfer rate difference is almost 40% (not to mention the faster access time). So I would consider it to be a dramatic increase.

 

I am not sure why my CPU usage was so high though. I have a 7300 with fairly low # of processes after reinstalling Vista. When I run HDTune, I am getting like 15% cpu usage.

 

I assume you are online or connected to a network when doing the testing?

 

I did a re-boot and let my laptop sit in idle for about 5 minutes before I ran HDTune. This is what I got...

 

So it will be the same speed as 160GB at 7200 but with half the latency?

 

I went back and re-read the announcements and you're right. They announced a 320GB and 7200rpm product at the same time, but they are not the same product.

That makes the Hitachi 7k200 look a lot more interesting to me. Or I could use the 320GB as an Ultrabay secondary.

 

Seems like the 7k200 and the new 7200rpm Toshiba may be good to compare. Was planning to get the 7k200 as soon as I got my laptop but think I'll wait for benchmarks.

I'm putting the drive the laptop comes with in the ultrabay, don't need that much hdd space (yet)

 

Definitely the way to go. Its on my scheduled list of upgrades for 2008. When the price drops beneath $200.

 

I like to keep my primary drive less than half full. You get better defrag results and better performance. (So I've read awhile back... I don't have anything to back that statement up right now.)

Anyway, I like to keep applications on the primary drive and other files on the secondary drive. You definitely get better performance with programs like Photoshop and Premiere when you set it up to have a secondary drive as a "scratch disk".

 

The fastest option is to use a SSD as primary drive for OS and few everyday applications and a magnetic big secondary for the rest.

 

I installed the Hitachi 7k200 200GB into my T61p on Friday. The drive seems to have sped up the computer a little and is quieter and cooler than the 7200rpm 100GB Seagate that was removed.

 

i also got the 200GB 7K200, and speeds increased a good bit.
here is my HDTune result:

 

now hitachi has 7K200 series 100GB 7200rpm drive with 16MB cache, which might be better than previous 7K100 series 100GB 7200rpm drive(8MB cache?). for those who need faster but cheaper option, this 7K200 100GB drive might be more suitable.

 

It is better, no doubt.
Wonder how the 100GB one compares against the 200GB version of the 7K200.

 

But is 100GBs Gig enough... er I mean Big 8>) enough for C drive of a Vista machine?
Dave

 

Maybe but I'm going to go bigger.

 

I've got a 100gb 7K200 on order. Will post results soon.

 

Ouch, and my max transfer speeds are 37Mb/s. Mine's the Hitachi 5400RPM 120GB drive. Saving up for a 7200RPM. My Seagate 5400rpm drive got me 46Mb/s on my old Acer.. hmm.

 

anyone bought the new 200gb 7200rom seagate momentus?

 

Any news?

 

HD Tune: Hitachi HTS722010K9S Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 29.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 63.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 51.7 MB/sec
Access Time : 14.6 ms
Burst Rate : 77.4 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 3.8%



My old HDD (Seagate Momentus 5400.2 160GB) :

Transfer Rate Minimum : 11.8 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 45.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 34.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 15.8 ms
Burst Rate : 63.1 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 10.4%


For some reason, I get momentary dips that really lower the minimum transfer rate.

 

Today i've bought the Seagte Momentus 7200.2 200GB.
The harddisk is really nice and fast like the 7K200.

 

Or could it be that we are comparing a new drive with a fresh, clean image vs. a drive that has been in use for a while? A few months ago I re-formatted my drive as the image got too bloated, reinstalled the same programs and guess what? My system was so much faster... with the same drive.

 

Gawd, I can't wait until this comes tomorrow. I don't have any two HDD slots though. I have to put my specs in my sig soon.

 

The interesting thing is the 5400 drives with PMR are almost as fast as the old 7K100s.

 

What have you guys done or will do with your old HDs? I've been thinking if I should bite the bullet for this, but I also don't want to waste the extra $60 I spent upgrading my HD to the 7200rpm 100GB model.

 

As they should be...