Hitachi 500GB Travelstar 2.5" SATA Mobile Hard Drive Kit

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Bought this to replace a 100 GB HD in an older Mac. Product arrived quickly, and was easy to install. 5 gold stars!

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My roommate accidentally knocked my computer off a small ledge and my hard drive was damaged. I bought this drive to replace it because it was the same price as a name brand hard drive but with better specs. So far it has worked perfectly, although I have noticed it's a bit louder than my previous hard drive (a Western Digital) when accessing data. For the price, though, I can't complain, and 98% of the time it's inaudible. All in all I'm pleased with this purchase.

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I used this for a Home Theater PC-PVR. It installed quickly and is very quiet. Plays back recordings flawlessly.

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silent, quick and reliable, i bought it to replace a western digital hard drive. this one works like a charm and the speed increase is actually noticeable 5400 rpm to 7200 rpm.

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I purchased this drive for my Atomos Samurai. I use the drive only to record video. For this purpose it works very well. I have not had any problems with it.

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I bought this as an upgrade to my HP 8530p laptop. My original laptop had a Hitachi drive, so I decided to upgrade it with something that would be the most compatible. I couldn't tell if this was an advanced format drive, but I don't think it was. I've been using it for about a month with no issues. It is just as quiet as the last drive. It was shipped without any packing around the box so it bounced around a bit in shipment. (I ordered a second one and it was packed more carefully.) I ran a speed test and the read speed was 50% faster than my old internal drive; I didn't check the write speed. My laptop had a sleeve that holds the hard drive and all mounting holes on the sides lined up fine.

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I guess this is the perfect hard disk upgrade for macbook pro. I have a 13" mid 2009 MBP. Upgraded to 500GB Seagate a while ago and it failed. Wanted to buy hitachi this time as thats the one which comes with Mac by default. It runs faster because of 7200rpm, quiet, stable (has some motion sensors) and perfect.

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This is a good SATA hard drive. Easy to install. I used it to replace HDD and play games on my HP compuer. But the price go up too fast. A few months ago, it was sold [$] in the BH. It jumps to [$]. I will wait to buy more when you drop the price.

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So far, I haven't had any problems! Installation was a breeze on my MacBook. Although, with many Hard Drives these days, the great ones last a long time and the cheap ones fail; time will tell.

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Installed this in my mid2007 white macbook. Having a nice amount of RAM cache helps the computer to move a bit faster. I have noticed that the 7200 rpm helps when I open folders with a lot of images the thumbnails load a lot faster than with my previous Seagate 5400 rpm HD.

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Works wonderfully, super amount of storage capacity.

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This drive was put into a 2008 Lenovo laptop, which has started to show signs of aging. I figured a 7200rpm drive would make any laptop faster, and it has. I cant afford to put an SSD into it, so the next best thing, this Hitachi drive, has done the job nicely. The computer is much faster when it comes to booting up, performing hard disk intensive tasks, etc. Its been very reliable, and quieter than the previous WD 5400rpm drive it replaced. Hard drives are always hit and miss with reliability, so my opinion will change if it dies within a year. But so far, so good.

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[...].In Geekbench 64bit, my Macbook Pro 13" went from a score of 5800+ up to about 6400+. That's a huge jump and a big cut in booting up. I then removed the 4 GB or ram from Samsung and upped that to 8 GB from Crucial. My gain? only 50 points in Geekbench. And pretty much the only app that will access the extra memory is Photoshop, as proven by by iStat Dashboard app. Seeing as you can get the 8 GB of ram for the same price as this drive, get this drive instead if your budget is tight.So can a solid state give you more speed? Sure. But can it do it at a price point of 60 dollars, AND provide you with 500 MB? You know the answer is NO. While the drive produces some noise, you'll only notice it in a perfectly quiet home. So unless you're a librarian with buckets of cash sitting around, forget the SSD and get this.Lastly, if you're wondering how Toshiba compares with Seagate or WD in the 2.5 mobile segment, I can tell you this. Almost all of the Seagates I've ever owned, usually 3.5's, have given up the ghost. And while I've always liked WD in the 3.5 form factor, I do have one 2.5 WD that's excessively slow. Toshiba is what apple tends to use in their higher end line (save for the low end 13") so I think you can't go wrong with them.Cheers,Paul

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I installed it in a Macbook pro in replacement of a 5400RPM. The system is definitively snappier now. Also I previously added the WD equivalent in another Macbook Pro. The WD is making very annoying vibrations, which do not exist with the Hitachi. I will therefore recommend this drive as the best upgrade.

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works great in my 13" MacBook Pro with a great speed advantage over the standard 5400 rpm hard drives, especially in opening files on your computer. If you have a mac, then i defiantly recommend this hard drive, keep in mind it is one of the only drives that have the proper accelerometer drivers that will help to stop disk while moving to avoid scratching, and therefore make this hard drive very reliable.

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I initialized this Hitachi drive, then fully formatted it, which took 5 hours; next I attempted to clone my C drive (Windows system drive) to it. In the past, I've done this exact procedure without trouble but in this case the destination drive (the Hitachi being reviewed) had an error about 95 percent of the way thru the cloning process. (The cloning software told be about this error.)

I thought well 95 percent complete may mean that all of the important Windows system information got copied to the Hitachi drive, so I tried this Hitachi drive as my C drive, and no my Windows 7 computer would not start.

I then put the Hitachi drive back in the external USB case and attempted a full format again--that didn't work, though the short format did work.

Platter read test software which I ran to test this drive also said there were serious errors on it.

I returned the drive to BH for a refund.

I've never had a hard drive fail so quickly, hope that it was just a bad one that got through Hitachi's vetting process.

From a different source, I bought a bare Western Digital 500 gig hard drive, and that worked correctly. I initialized it, fully formatted it, and cloned my C drive to it; it's now the C drive in my laptop.

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I needed a quick reliable external HD and this one plus an encloser case worked brilliantly.

It is light, quick and silent.

So far, nothing is not so great about it

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Hitachi is the brand to trust for use with the Atomos Ninja. So far so good.