Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 Officially Launched

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w0qj · #1 Post by **w0qj** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:22 am

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Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 Officially Launched:

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Enjoy!

(Previous posting on Seagate 7K100 as below):
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=10372

#2 Post by **K. Eng** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:45 am

Sounds good

But remember to post in the right forum!

G-Man · #3 Post by **G-Man** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:51 am

K. Eng wrote:Sounds good But remember to post in the right forum!

... already taken care of.

Regards,
G-Man

mlykke · #4 Post by **mlykke** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:56 am

Now thats NICE!

And it even has a slight lower power useage than the 60GB version.

darkhelmet03 · #5 Post by **darkhelmet03** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:44 am

...the 5K100 100GB was also launched in SEPTEMBER 04 and as of now (MAY 05) it is not available....let's hope we will not wait until 2006 for 7K100 to be available..

I am planning to upgrade my HDD by year's end and it will be either the 7200.1 or the 7K100 at 100GB. Let's see which will make it to the market first...

JHEM · #6 Post by **JHEM** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:55 am

I have standing orders with four (*) different retailers for the 7K100. I'll let you all know who actually comes through with one, but as of this morning they all report that the drives aren't available.

I've also emailed two contacts at HGST and asked when the drives will start shipping, one said they're "in the pipeline" the other responded that they're "enroute", which could mean anything from they're sitting on the loading dock in China to they're in a container on I80 as I type this.

Regards,

James

* Zipzoomfly, Newegg, Dell Small Business and Tigerdirect.

NaT · #7 Post by **NaT** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:08 am

I compare the technical spec of Hitachi 7k100 and Seagate 7k100. It seems to be Hitachi will have higher performance, lower power consumption. Both products are not available in the market yet.

One thing I notice is that, hitachi says "QuietMode" which I hope will be the more quiet version of 7k60. Actually I have no problem with the noise from HDD, as long as it is the normal operating sound. Actually I'm kind of like it in the sense that I know how I/O intensive my application is.

Will wait for the review of these HDDs and then decide to buy one later

Right now, I have gone with Seagate 5400.2 for 100GB HDD

NaT

#8 Post by **jdhurst** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:54 pm

/me drools.

I don't *need* one (25Gb free on a 60Gb 7200 rpm drive with 5 operational computers on the one drive). But I *want* one.
... JDH

w0qj · #9 Post by **w0qj** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:26 pm

NaT wrote: Will wait for the review of these HDDs and then decide to buy one later Right now, I have gone with Seagate 5400.2 for 100GB HDD

NaT

= = = = =
One thing to consider:
The Seagate's Momentus 7K100 comes with their standard 5 year warranty, am I correct?

Hitachi's Travelstar 7K100 comes with 3 years (in my experience, notebook HDD's typically fail in 4th year or so...).

By the way, Hitachi's 7K100 has about 72% higher data density than their 7K60, so the 7K100 should be even faster for this reason (as verified by the higher maximum Media Transfer Rate of 629 Mbits/sec vs. 518).

tttttada · #10 Post by **tttttada** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:40 pm

It seems they're available on the XPS gen 2s already. I tried customizing one on dell.com and they were indeed available with a 5-day delivery delay.

Leon · #11 Post by **Leon** » Thu May 12, 2005 2:17 pm

So, order one, and return it without the drive

tttttada · #12 Post by **tttttada** » Thu May 12, 2005 6:02 pm

Leon wrote:So, order one, and return it without the drive

i guess thats the only way we'll be able to a hold of one

Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 Officially Launched

Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 Officially Launched

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