Testseek.co.uk have collected 12 expert reviews of the HGST / WD 3.5 inch Deskstar 7K500 SATA300 HDS7250-KLA Series and the average rating is 73%. Scroll down and see all reviews for HGST / WD 3.5 inch Deskstar 7K500 SATA300 HDS7250-KLA Series.
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12 Reviews
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The once great DeskStar series is starting to look a bit long in the tooth, and the 7K500 offers last years performance. Like the EU parliament, not only is the 7K500 slow, but, at almost £270, its also poor value for money. Considering that you can ...
Abstract: Ever since the introduction of desktop hard drives with capacities of 200 and 250 GB, the pace of capacity boosts has quickened. With a total storage capacity of half a teraByte, Hitachi breaks through into impressive terrritory without increasing da...
While Hitachi has done a lot to improve the image of the dreaded DeskStar lineup, they have yet to catch up to Seagate. A 5yr warranty is a great place to start mind you (as I found out the hard way, just as I completed testing, my Samsung boot drive ...
Abstract: There is nothing more exciting than seeing a brandy new shiny HDD sitting on my front steps waiting for me. There is only one company that could have done this… wait… you guess yet? Hitachi! Yeah, I said Hitachi. If you folks have ever voted on our po...
Like all the other high capacity HDDs weve seen thus far, the 7K500 is not a quiet drive. SPL measurements suggest the 7K500 is the noisiest by a small margin, but the numbers dont really tell the whole story. Subjectively, the 7K500 sounds much the...
Abstract: This Japanese conglomerates latest drive builds upon the solid performance of the 7K400 with an all-new native SATA design that incorporates a second-generation 300 MB/sec interface and Native Command Queuing. The older 7K400 held its own for quite so...
Abstract: I CAN REMEMBER THE DAYS when storage capacity was measured in megabytes. Back then, a 20MB hard drive seemed impossible to fill, at least for the first week. But data has a habit of expanding to fill available space, and over the years, file and applic...
Abstract: We've never done a review of a single hard disk before but this Hitachi drive justifies the attention. It's the first 500GB disk drive to hit the shelves. That's half a Terabyte in a single drive. Blimey! Hitachi has got its drive to market ahead of the l...
Abstract: For all intents and purposes, the 7K500 is a monumental release (half of a terabyte, 3Gbps, NCQ, 16MB of data cache, and staggered spin-up in a 500GB offering). It represents all of the latest developments to the SATA specification. To be fair, they do...
Abstract: The Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 500GB SATA-II hard drive raises the bar for those who subscribe to the theory that bigger is better... This is the first drive to come across our test bench with SATA300 speed, and it provides the largest capacity (500GB) and...
