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Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B HDD

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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 (January'09). Unlike the previous version, this drive complies with the

9.5 mm thick form factor specification for notebook hard drives. The difference

doesn't end here, this drive also brings in the green factor along with some

optional security features. Having 500 GB storage capacity with 5400 RPM spindle

speed, this drive is aimed to be used in notebooks, but can also be used in

external storage and gaming consoles. Having an extended battery life is a sort

of a priority with notebooks, the 5K500 helps in extending the battery life as

it's quite frugal in power consumption.

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Price:

Rs 14,590



Key Specs: DES, Solid Capacitor Design,
DualBIOS



Contact: Gigabyte, Mumbai


Tel:
40633222



Email:
viveks@gigabyte.in



Website:
www.gigabyte.in



SMS Buy 130579 to 56677

The drive features a read/write power specification of just 1.4 W, which is

lower than any other 500 GB notebook hard drive. Consuming lesser power and

having an eco-friendly halogen-free design, this drive is distinguished with the

Hitachi's 'EcoTrac' classification. Travelstar 5K500.B also features an optional

Bulk Data Encryption (BDE) for the hard drive level data security.

We tested the drive on an Intel Core 2 Duo based machine with 1GB RAM. We ran

HD Tune benchmark to evaluate performance, it gave an average transfer rate of

64.4 MB/sec with an access time of 18.1 ms. These scores are much higher when

comparing with its predecessor, Travelstar 5K500, which had scored 54.2 MB/sec

and had an access time of 18.4 ms. The drive also fared better in Business Disk

and High-End Disk WinStone 99 benchmarks with scores of 10.1 MB/sec and 37.9

MB/sec respectively.

Bottomline: It consumes lesser power while delivering good

performance—ideal for notebooks.

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