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Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 160GB Hard Drive

Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 – 160GB Hard Drive a predecessor of 7K250 offers high interface speed along with simplicity. The drive is ideal Digital video recording, video editing, extreme PC gaming, ATA entry-servers, personal and business computing. Its quiet operating modes are ideal for use in noise-sensitive environments. Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 incorporates the SATA 3.0 Gbps interface to enable fast data access and enhanced power management to the system. Deskstar T7K250 drive is the first from Hitachi to support Native Command Queuing. Command queuing offers significantly better performance in multi-user environments with loads of outstanding I/O requests. Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 – 160GB Hard Drive enables the host system to optimize storage of data with its ‘Smooth Stream’ technology which gives the host control over the drives error recovery process.

Features:

• Form Factor: 3.5″ x 1/3H
• Capacity 250GB
•  Cache 8MB
• Data Transfer Rate 300 MBps
• Interface Type 1 x Serial ATA-300
• Connector Type 7 pin Serial ATA
• Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for better performance in multi-user environments
• Features Temperature sensor, Load/unload technology
• Spindle speed: 7200 rpm

Qualities:

• Features Native Command Queuing that speeds up the data transfer rate
• Works very well without noise
• Smooth Stream technology
• low operating temperature

Drawbacks:

• Tight fit for most standard PC cases

Comments:

With its large capacity, low operating temperature and really good data transfer speed Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 – 160GB Hard Drive works well for me. It is the quietest drive I have seen. Support for NCQ, is the most attractive feature of the drive. NCQ speeds up the transfer of data between the hard drive and CPU, provided your motherboard or SATA controller card supports the technology. The idea is that the commands that are sent by the processor to the hard drive for data get queued up in a logical order to enable the drive to respond as quickly as possible. The hard drive is very reliable and ideal for video recording and business computing.