Testseek.co.uk have collected 36 expert reviews of the HGST / WD 3.5 inch Deskstar 7K4000 SATA600 HDS7240-ALE Series and the average rating is 88%. Scroll down and see all reviews for HGST / WD 3.5 inch Deskstar 7K4000 SATA600 HDS7240-ALE Series.
June 2015
(88%)
36 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Abstract: Now that the prices of SSDs have dropped to well below 50 cents per GB, we expect that only few Hardware.Info readers will still want to use a conventional hard drive as their primary storage device. We still can't quite live without them, however, beca...
Abstract: Most of our avid readers of course have at least one SSD in their desktop and laptop, but for large volume storage you're still relegated to conventional hard disks. It's almost become a negative connotation - 'conventional' - and it really doesn't do t...
Abstract: SSDs are of course the hippest and fastest form of storage, but if you want lots of storage capacity without breaking the bank, you're still relegated to the familiar realm of the hard disk. There's still some choice out there in this category, and pric...
Abstract: It's not all about SSDs when it comes to storage these days. 'Traditional' hard drives are still very much alive as well. Hitachi proves this by introducing the first disks with a capacity of 4 TB. Hardware.Info extensively tested two of them to see how...
Abstract: Hitachi recently started shipping a pair of 4 TB hard drives. We can see that they're pretty expensive, but how do they compare to existing 3 TB models in other ways? It’s time for a comprehensive overview of today's high-capacity hard drive offerings....
After i finished benchmarking all over again all the drives i have here i was expecting to see performance numbers along the same exact line as the 7K3000 series since the only difference (at least the only obvious one) with the latest 7K4000 line is the ...
Enterprise Class Quality, 2.0 Million Hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), Performance, 4TB's Capacity, Temperatures/Noise Levels, 5 Years Warranty, , ,
Price Tag (For Some),
Based on our results it's quite clear that SATA II and SATA III are not at all apart in terms of performance (at least not with hard disk drives) which actually makes sense since the maximum speed of SATA II can reach 300MB/s (3Gb/s). Still we can only of...
Largest capacity 7200RPM 3.5 inch harddrive on the market, Strong performance in our synthetic benchmarks, Peak transfer speeds in excess of 160MB/s
Slight drop in trace performance compared to past models
Hitachi still maintains its dominance over the market for the highest-capacity hard drives with the Deskstar 7K4000; unless you need the fastest speeds available in an HDD, the 7K4000 provides an unbeatable data density and strong performance for most app...
