Testseek.co.uk have collected 12 expert reviews of the HGST / WD 2.5 inch Travelstar 5K500.B SATA300 HTS5450-B9A Series and the average rating is 77%. Scroll down and see all reviews for HGST / WD 2.5 inch Travelstar 5K500.B SATA300 HTS5450-B9A Series.
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The Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B does consume less power, but other laptop HDD manufacturers have managed to achieve quite the same speeds today. So unless you need the power savings or BDE (bulk drive encryption – useful for organizations), this driv...
Abstract: The Deskstar 7K500 was released somewhat later than the junior-series model and differs from the latter in its higher spindle speed (7200 RPM) and larger cache buffer (16 instead of 8 megabytes). This model comes in..
Abstract: Travelstar 5K500.B 500GB - Hitachi's half terabyte 5400rpm notebook drive is a nice addition to the available options for consumers. It's very quiet, matching the Momentus 7200.4 500GB sample vibrates very little, and is very modest in its power consumption. It beats out the other two..
Now it’s time to sum up all the results and see what HDD is better overall. If you need maximum performance, you may be interested in two models: Western Digital Scorpio Blue and Seagate Momentus 7200.4. The former is somewhat better for databases o...
The Hitachi TravelStar 5K500.B does consume less power, but other laptop HDD manufacturers have managed to achieve quite the same speeds today. So unless you need the power savings or BDE (bulk drive encryption – useful for organizations), this drive ...
Doesn’t do much to distinguish itself from competitors’ offerings
The Hitachi 5K500.B does consume less power, but other laptop HDD manufacturers have managed to achieve the same speeds today. So unless you need the power savings or BDE (bulk drive encryption — useful for organisations), this drive doesn’t d...
Laptop users are as data hungry as their desktop counterparts and this calls for laptop hard drive manufacturers to create laptop hard drives with higher capacities. 500 GB is the highest available from any manufacture at the moment and we have already...
Abstract: This Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B mobile hard drive as the name suggests is an upgraded version of its predecessor Travelstar 5K500 which we had reviewed earlier (January09). Unlike the previous version, this drive complies with the 9.5 mm thick form f...
Leise und schnell sind die Attribute der Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B mit 500 GByte. Zwar sind die Schreibwerte eher Mittelmaß, aber Lese- und Kopierwerte können dagegen voll überzeugen. Allein die Zugriffszeit erinnert daran, dass es sich hi...
Abstract: Ein halbes Terabyte für wenig Geld - ob die 2,5-Zoll-Festplatte Travelstar 5K500.B von Hitachi auch flott und schön leise ist, erfahren Sie in diesem Test. Die Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B (Herstellerbezeichnung HTS545050B9A300) ist eine auffallend gü...
