HGST Travelstar 2.5-Inch 500GB 7200RPM SATA III 32MB Cache SATA 6Gbps Internal Bare or OEM Drives (HTS725050B7E630)

This is a preliminary review as the drive was just put into use. I bought it as a play forward piece of hardware. It is being used in ancient Dell D-ought20 series laptops - either a 620 or an 820 with the idea it will eventually be yanked and put in a newer machine at some point. It works fine with these older laptops with preliminary testing. The only unusual thing I ran into is i couldn't get windows (both an old XP pro, and a win7 home premium 64bit) to see the drive. So I put a live linux cd into the optical drive of one of my desktops and hooked up the drive via and external usb drive connection and formatted with Gparted - setting up both NTFS and EXT4 for dual booting. My initial impression is that it is just a decent drive at a decent price and handy for many purposes. It appears to run pretty cool compared to a couple of old 2.5 7200rpm 1.5 gig throughput drives I have. Will try to check back in latter after it has been in use for a while. Update - 10-31-2015: Had too add to this review as this drive is now fully in use and it is exceptional! It is no SSD - but it is the fastest disk drive I have ever had in a laptop. Even though it is in an old Dell D620 - so I can't realize all it's speed - it made a huge difference over the old 1.5gb 7200rpm drive. So if you have an old computer and want to add some pep to it - but don't want to go SSD (which would make getting at least Win7 a good idea - if using Windows) then this is a great buy!

HGST Travelstar 2.5-Inch 500GB 7200RPM SATA III 32MB Cache SATA 6Gbps Internal Bare Most HDDs today are used or repurposed. New drives are either not available or very expensive. This drive works well. In most cases, you have to re-initialize the drive to make them work. Most computers are capable of doing this easily. Once I initialized this drive it worked as required with no problems. the HDD is the archive drive of choice as it has no power drain concern where the memory can be erased as with the SSD RECOMMENDED I do not know the seller nor did I receive any money or product for my random review 241010 0329

This is a 7.0mm high drive compared to the standard, and much more common, 9.5 mm high drives (some very large capacity laptop drives are even taller than that). That means this will fit in the ultra-thin, current-design Acer ao725 and Acer ao756, in the Asus x101ch, and in the modern crop of "Ultrabooks". This will also fit in recent MacBook Pro's which generally use a "side pin" system to "suspend" the harddrive in the airspace, eliminating the need for any spacer. If in doubt, MacBooks and their requirements are well covered at the iFixit website and you can determine your Mac's i.d. by clicking on "About" in the leftmost drop down menu. The main claim to fame of this drive (besides fitting in the newer thin laptop bays) is that it supports SATA III; almost all other laptop drives are limited to SATA II. This is only a benefit if your laptop has a SATA III controller; I believe most MacBooks since 2010 have this feature (but track down the specs of YOUR MacBook!); of the Windows computers listed above, only the Acer ao756 has SATA III capability. On my ao756, I saw about a 12% speed improvement compared to the stock, single platter, 320 gb SATA II Seagate. This was NOT, however, reflected in the WEI or Windows Experience Index test that Microsoft offers in the Windows 7 Control Panel. In contrast, when I dropped an SSD into the ao756 the WEI shot up from 5.9 to 7.4, and I saw the same increase in the measly Atom powered netbook (N2600) that I dropped an SSD into. So there is performance and there is performance. SSD's still rule speed, conventional HD's still trump on price per gb which translates into 3 to 4 times the capacity at a much lower price. I would use this in a MacBook Pro with a 250gb or 320gb drive just to improve storage capacity. As a much appreciated bonus, this drive is ultra quiet and vibration free, rated for 400 gees of operating shock resistance, which is absurdly sturdy. Plus, since it has only a single platter (and a power efficient controller) it is energy saving. For other laptops, with SATA II interfaces, the upgrade isn't as compelling and the low height could be problem in 9.0mm high bays. You will need to decide if you can get or jury rig a spacer, if one is needed based on the way your HD bay works. Based on the price I paid and the price for other, older tech drives, there is no "premium" for this high-tech HD. On the other hand don't expect to come anywhere close to SSD speeds (even for an SSD held back by a SATA II interface) from this SATA III drive (even when this drive is running under a SATA III interface).

I bought this hard drive to replace a malfunctioning HD in my 2010 Macbook Pro. I have been using this HD for two months, and so far it has worked as expected without any problems. When running, the HD is not noticeably loud, although I do tend to have noise in the background that may be covering it up. If I experience any problems at a later date, I will update this review accordingly. Side note: If anyone is curious about my system specs, my model is a 17" 2010 Macbook Pro. This HD is a little thinner than the default drive, but it does fit. A couple times I have heard the HD move around a bit (once when I accidentally bumped it from underneath and once when I flipped my laptop over). As long as you're careful, this should not cause any problems, but I would not recommend this HD if you are rough with your laptop and your default drive is thicker.

Unit arrived on-time with quality packaging. Drive enclosed in ESD bag envelope. This was advertised as OEM drive and I installed into a dated Linux OS installed Dell Latitude D630. This drive is exceptional value and performance for the cost! I chose Hitachi (HGST) for durability and performance reasons. Installation was a breeze but since this was a thinner drive, 7mm, I had to invert the latitude to slide and properly align the drive SATA sockets. Please be aware of manufacturer recommend drive removal/install procedures and especially follow ESD grounding procedures to prevent any spurious future problems. Used Clonezilla to transfer partition image for older drive to new HGST drive. This Travelstar for a mechanical drive really rocks with the 7200RPM and 32Meg cache! I get consistent 124MB copy speeds doing video editing work! I have never seen such high speeds from mechanical laptop drive before this. I am very impressed and appreciative that I have this drive at such a good price.

Scam listing, its been over a month now and they refuse to ship this. Third time ordering, still has not shipped, just label created Updated review 9 months later: Drive just failed.

Excellent product! Delivered just as said. Good value

Very please with this HDD. Easy as pie to install in a 2009 model ASUS laptop. Wife was using laptop, and it kept crashing. I bought her a new laptop for her birthday, and she wanted me to throw away the laptop. "Let me play around with it. I might be able to fix it." "NO. THROW IT AWAY." Ran chkdsk diagnostic and figured out after two days of running that the hard drive was bad. Eventually, Windows 7 wouldn't even finish loading. Bought this HDD, got it in 4 days, installed it, installed the recovery disks, spent a week updating Windows 7, and all is right with the world. One thing to be aware of if this is a replacement HDD. You need to update the SATA driver. Force the update. Otherwise, you cannot receive Windows update. It took me 3 hours to figure this out after I installed it.

Tres bon disque , taille ok , le cache et la vitesse de rotation donnent un coup de fouet a votre ordi. Silencieux et sans vibrations. Vraiment bien, dommage il manque les 4 vis fixations laterales et le carton de conditionnement trop grand permettait au disque de ramasser des " chocs " pendant le transport. Formatable multi os, boot , partitionnable.

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Die Festplatte wurde zum Austausch meiner bisherigen HDD (HGST 5K750 750GB, 5400RPM, 8MB Cache, SATAII) eingebaut, da die alte HDD gestorben ist. Was ich bestätigen kann ist, das sie tatsächlich schneller läuft und arbeitet. Das Booten ging flotter voran. Das allgemeine arbeiten am Notebook ist besser und auch aufwendigere sachen, wie Spiele werden einen tick schneller geladen. Die Maximale Übertragungsrate lag bei 132MBit/s Insgesamt lohnt es sich eine schnellere Festplatte einzubauen, als die vorinstallierte. (Bezogen auf Notebooks) Empfehlung? ja! Nachtrag: 26.03.2015: Ich habe diese Festplatte nun circa 6 Monate in verwendung (gehabt). Mittlerweile ist auch diese so gut wie tot! Diverse tools bescheinigen ihr eine Gesundheit von 7% mit massiv vielen defekten und ausgetauschten Sektoren. Ich werde mich also wieder einmal um eine neue HDD bemühen müssen, da ich glaube, das diese den Umstieg auf Linux bzw. die bevorstehende Formatierung nicht überleben wird. Manchmal startet Windows nicht mal zuende und muss via Reset neugestartet werden. Es war eine tolle HDD, die nicht lange gelebt hat... R.I.P HDD

What can I say? It works, it's fast and it's big. I bought it for my 13" Macbook Pro. I first created an Extended Journaled partition which took a couple of seconds. I then cloned my entire hard drive on to it using free SuperDuper. That took a little more than an hour but I was expecting that to take at least two. I then tested it by booting with the alt key. It worked fine so off came the back of the computer and I put it in. After startup apart from my computer being zippier everything was as I had left it. Brilliant! I'd had to upgrade after installing Mountain Lion. My computer had slowed so much I couldn't even type. I added more Ram then I looked at a SSHD, but when I saw this was 6 Gb/s the same as a SSHD and a LOT cheaper the decision was made.

Dopo aver preso in considerazione l'opzione SSD o HD, la scelta è ricaduta su questo HD dell'Hitachi per andare a sostituire l'HD del mio notebook (dopo una caduta accidentale) all'ottimo prezzo di circa 45 euro. Infatti, nonostante gli SSD stiano acquisendo sempre più quote di mercato nel segmento Storage-PC Desktop, esiste ancora un'ampia fetta di sistemi dove donimano incontrastati (soprattuto per motivi legati ai costi) gli hard disk rotativi; parliamo delle piattaforme notebook, netbook e PC All-In-One, sistemi che alimentano in particolar modo il mercato dei dishi da 2,5". Il "tallone d'achille" di questi classici hard disk è costituito (da sempre) dalle performance che devono per ovvi motivi avere un compromesso con i consumi dell'unità e quindi della batteria del computer stesso. Il Travelstar 7K500 HTS725050A7E630 da 500 GB, da me acquistato, offre una soluzione da 2,5" caratterizzata dall'utilizzo dell'interfaccia SATA III a 6 Gb/s e, cosa più importante, con un regime rotativo di 7200 RPM che aiuta a ridurre il tempo di accesso rispetto alle soluzioni analoghe da 5400 RPM e inoltre è equipaggiato con 32 MB di cache. Il Travelstar 7K500 è sicuramente un prodotto "indovinato" e il consumo ridotto e la Garanzia di ben 3 Anni, offerti dal produttore (Hitachi), rappresentano un ulteriore invito per l'utente che si appresta a fare un upgrade al proprio sistema, che non per forza deve essere portatile viste le performance dimostrate dall'unità. Per quanto concerne la rumorosità, questa risulta un pò accentuata in fase di uso intensivo, ma non poteva essere altrimenti visti i 7200 RPM. Se come me state cercando un disco da 2,5" con una buona capacità, prestazioni e prezzo, questo HD Travelstar 7K500 HTS725050A7E630 da 500 GB sembra un perfetto candidato.