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Hitachi Travelstar DK23FB (40 GB)

Hitachi Travelstar® DK23FB 40 GB ATA-100 Hard Drive

Seagate DiamondMax Plus 10 (80 GB)

Seagate DiamondMax® Plus 10 80 GB SATA Hard Drive

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Product Description The Hitachi Travelstar series adopts the magnetic recording technique of advancement and actualizes bulk advanced high reliability, adjusting to the needs of the various information equipment.
Serial ATA drives are based on an integrated, single-chip native SATA solution, DiamondMax 10 drives feature native command queuing along with the company's exclusive dual-processor... More
Serial ATA drives are based on an integrated, single-chip native SATA solution, DiamondMax 10 drives feature native command queuing along with the company's exclusive dual-processor technology and large buffers to deliver unparalleled speeds compared to traditional drives in their class. This unique set of features combined with Maxtor's latest firmware technology, allows the drive to self-balance its workloads for a more efficient hard drive operation. With DiamondMax 10 hard drive-enabled systems, consumers can easily run multiple applications, such as games and music, at the same time without overwhelming the PC. Designed for multimedia PC users, graphic artists, system integrators and white box builders, the 7200 RPM DiamondMax 10 drives are offered in capacities of up to 300GB and are ideal for performance desktop computing storing high-resolution images, multimedia content, and personal and business information. Less
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Key Features   
HDD Form Factor   2.5' x 1/8H 3.5' x 1/3H (Low Profile)
Capacity 40 GB 80 GB
Designation   Laptop Computer Desktop Computer
Interface IDE/EIDE Serial ATA
Enclosure   Internal Internal
Spindle Speed   5400 RPM 7200 RPM
Technical Features   
External Data Transfer Rate   100 MBps 150 MBps
Seek Time   13 ms 9 ms
Special Features - S.M.A.R.T Technology
Average Latency 5.56 ms 4.17 ms
Sound Emission - 32 dB
Interface (Detailed)   DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra) Serial ATA
Buffer Size 8 MB 8 MB
Other Features   
Platform   PC PC
Brand Hitachi Seagate
Package Qty. 1 1
Dimensions   
Height 0.37 in. 1.03 in.
Depth 3.94 in. 5.79 in.
Width 2.76 in. 4 in.
Weight 0.21 lb. 1.39 lb.
Warranty   
Warranty - 3 Years
Miscellaneous   
Product ID 21272854 26055150
UPC 407061052489 2000011010645
Release Date - August, 2004
Product MPN   
MPN 08K1427 6L080M0
 
Consumer Reviews
Hitachi Travelstar DK23FB (40 GB)
Hitachi Travelstar® DK23FB 40 GB ATA-100 Hard Drive
From $40.00
Seagate DiamondMax Plus 10 (80 GB)
Seagate DiamondMax® Plus 10 80 GB SATA Hard Drive
From $28.69

Consumer Reviews

86

Very Reliable

byRusshoolio Sep 28, 2006
10 Helpfuls 11 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Reliable
Cons None really.
Recommended it? Yes

This is another in Hitachi's fine line of hard drives. It came standard in my Asus M3N laptop in October 2003.

This has been a very reliable hard drive. I've never had a problem with corrupted data, unlike some other brands of hard drives which I've used. I've never had a head crash, or... Read full review »

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Consumer Reviews

dragon1
65

What is S-ATA??

bydragon1 Dec 13, 2005
20 Helpfuls 21 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros Easy setup-fast-cutting edge technology
Cons Only one harddrive per cable
Recommended it? Yes

What are the Harddrive Interfaces

When I started building my own pc's the fastest ata(IDE) was 33MB/s. This was about 1986/87 . Of course the actual transfer rate was about 10 to 25 % slower than the maximum at the time and still is. This includes the 66/100/133 MB/s bandwidth available... Read full review »

rgathright
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One year later: Fast And Dependable

byrgathright Sep 29, 2006
18 Helpfuls 19 Helpfuls Was this review helpful?
Pros 1) MTBF is very low 2) NCQ and small platters. 3) Low heat.
Cons 1) Size
Recommended it? Yes

I have been using four of these drives in about 3 different SATA raid configurations for a year now. I have tested them on AMD to Intel boxes in Windows and Linux with no problems. They are very quiet and quite fast. With all four spinning the sound of the cpu fan is still louder!

For... Read full review »

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