http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/ Engadget Comments for Hitachi ships 500GB Travelstar 7K500: 7200RPMs in a 2.5-inch form factor http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/
I only use Western Digital and i've never had a drive fail. I currently own a 1TB "Green" WD Caviar and a 150GB WD RaptorX. Had the Raptor for about 3 or 4 years and it's still going strong after multiple reformats.

I'm looking to build a cheap, small, low-powered pc and may consider this for it.

Anyone know if the advertised power usage on this drive is considered really low for HDDs this size and speed?]]>Sep 1st 2009 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/
My '02 G3 iBook which was my first Mac also suffered a failing hard disk. To this day those two drives are the only drives that have ever failed on my personal equipment.

Tear the iBook apart, surprise surprise, Apple-stickered IBM Travelstar.

To be honest, though, obviously Hitachi makes great drives. You don't pay out the ass for their SAN stuff for nothing.

Disks fail. Constantly. I replace a drive on an average of once a week, I'd say. I pay zero attention to the manufacturer, they all die. Just buy what's cheap.

Samsung 5400rpm 1.5T 3.0GBps SATA drives w/32MB cache are on sale at Fry's for $99 'till September 3 so I picked up a pair of them. Closest price is newegg @120, and being a CA resident I'd have to pay tax AND shipping if I ordered from them. I had only planned on getting a 1T and a 1.5T but for the price might as well pickup two.

One's serving as a big media drive, and the other is my Time Machine drive backing up the media drive and my 2x320GB WD RAID 0 main volume. Like all drives, they'll fail sooner or later :)]]>Sep 1st 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/
Nothing wrong with the Seagate that I can see, other than even bigger would be better. But hey, competition is always nice, and who knows, that Hitachi drive might actually be available before Christmas rolls around!

Hey Engadget, when the first X rpm drive at the biggest size in that form factor is announced/ships/is available that might be news. But the second one? Leave that for the reviewers...]]>Sep 2nd 2009 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/
It's time to admit that this dumb term doesn't make you sound more "high tech".]]>Sep 1st 2009 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/
2.5-inch shape?]]>Sep 1st 2009 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 5:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Dunno why this drive is newsworthy unless it draws less power than Seagate's.]]>Sep 1st 2009 5:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_momentus_7200_4.pdf
the Seagate draws less power still (although probably only what would amount to a few extra minutes of battery time).]]>Sep 1st 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/
now, go and hide :)]]>Sep 1st 2009 5:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/
Reviewed on Tom's recently:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/500gb-notebook-hdd,1960-3.html]]>Sep 1st 2009 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/
The 7K500 is 9.5mm]]>Sep 1st 2009 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/I've been a fan of Seagate, but recently it's been a hindrance... WD in my opinion is my favorite drive.]]>Sep 1st 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/
Then it became oh-so-techie to say "form factor" all the time, when what was really meant was "size" or "design" or "shape".

A factor is something that's multiplied by something else, typically. And the other meanings don't make sense either (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factor).

Then again, we still see terms like "XGA" on here, when most of the planet switched to stating actual numeric resolutions sometime after "Super VGA" fell out of fashion.]]>Sep 1st 2009 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/
You're absolutely right. A drive is a drive. It's one shape, rectagular, and boxy. Form factor is a different, oh I dunno.. FORM? Take cell phones. Candybar vs flip-phone. Those are different form factors. A 2.5" hard drive vs a 1.8" vs a 3.5" are different sizes, not form factors.

Also, I'm with you about the screen resolutions. WUXGA? Zzz... I'd rather just hear 1920x1200.]]>Sep 1st 2009 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/*thinking of a way to counter your statement*

I like my hard drives blended to pieces, now that is a form factor
]]>Sep 1st 2009 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Sep 1st 2009 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/hitachi-ships-500gb-travelstar-7k500-7200rpms-in-2-5-inch-form/Same goes for other times it's used, it's indicating several measurements that conforms to a known entity or design.

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I just ordered one for my 15" macbook pro; since my lapppie is the previous gen (pre-unibody) it's going to be a major pita swapping the drives :(]]>Nov 26th 2009 10:47PM