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Hitachi Travelstar 5K320
Sandeep Koul
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Travelstar is a high capacity compact HDD with a form factor of 2.5 in. and
comes with storage capacity ranging from 80 GB to 320 GB. Spindle speed of this
HDD is 5400 rpm with SATA 3 GB/s interface. It comes with Enhanced Availability
for apps needing round-the-clock access and consumes less power. One optional
interesting feature of this HDD is Bulk Data Encryption with SATA 1.5 GB/s
interface for hard-drive level data security. In this technique data is
encrypted using a key when it is written to the disk. For enhancing reliability
Travelstar comes with altitude sensing Thermal Fly-High control and True Track
technology. It is ideal for notebooks and small form factor storage devices.
Price: Rs
4,940 (5 year warranty)
Key Specs: 320 GB, 5400 rpm, Bulk Data
Encryption, form factor of 2.5 inches
Contact:Cyberstar Infocom, Bangalore
Tel: 34035467
email: sales@cyberstarindia.com
SMS Buy 130981 to 56677 |
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We carried out different tests to check the performance of this HDD with an
Intel quad core machine with 2 GB RAM. On Business Disk Winmark, the disk gave a
throughput of 9 MB/s that is about 3 MB/s more than WD Scorpio Notebook HDD
(reviewed PCQ June '06). In high-end Disk Winmark it gave a throughput of 36
MB/s that was about 4 MB/s more than WD Scorpio. It took 18 ms to access data,
which is almost equal to that attained by WD Scorpio.
Bottomline: 320 GB storage space in 2.5” casing is ideal for portable
devices, on top of it price of under 5k makes it a must buy.
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