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PlanetX64 Hitachi Travelstar HTS7200101G9AT00 2.5" 7200 RPM HardDrive Evaluation Contributed by Sean Kalinich Thursday, 02 March 2006 Last Updated Thursday, 02 March 2006 Product: Hitachi Travelstar HTS7200101G9AT00 Author: Sean Kalinich Date: February 12th 2006 Price: $190.00 Manufacturer: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Spelling and Grammatical Editors: Ian King and Sean May Introduction: Hitachi has been around for almost 100 years. Founded in 1910 by Namihei Odaira as an electrical repair shop, Hitachi’s first product was a 5 horse power electric motor. Since that time, Hitachi has always been a leader in electronics and has produced many new and cutting edge products. (for a complete timeline of Hitachi visit HItachi.com ). For 50 of their 97 Years, Hitachi’s Global Storage division has produced some of the industry’s leading storage devices. In 2002 Hitachi bought IBM’s hard drive division for an estimated $2 billion dollars and proceeded to turn around the IBM hard drive line. Hitachi’s Deskstar, Ultrastar, and Travelstar drives are some of the best you can buy. Today we take a look at Hitachi’s Travelstar HTS7200101G9AT00 a 2.5” 100GB 7200 RPM hard drive. Hitachi is aiming to combine the best of storage and speed for laptop systems. Let’s see how close to the target they get. {mospagebreak title=Specifications} Specifications: 4.5 out of 5 Interface ATA-6 Capacity (GB) 100 / 80 / 60 Sector size (Bytes) 512 Recording zones 24 Data heads (physical) 4 / 4 / 3 Data disks 2 / 2 / 2 Max. areal density (Gbits/sq. inch) 81 / 66 / 66 Performance: Data buffer (MB) 8 Rotational speed (RPM) 7200 Latency average (ms) 4.2 Media transfer rate (Mbits/sec, max) 629 / 561 / 561 Interface transfer rate (MB/sec, max) 100 Ultra DMA mode-5 1.5Gb/sec 16.6 PIO mode-4 Seek time (typical) Average (ms) 10 R / 11 W Track to track (ms) 1 R / 1.2 W Full stroke (ms) 18 R / 19 W Reliability: Load/Unload cycle 600,000 Power: Requirement +5VDC (+-5%) Dissipation (Typical) Startup (peak, max.) 5.5W NC Seek 2.3W 2.7W Read (avg.) 2.0W 2.3W Write (avg.) 2.0W 2.3W Active idle (avg.) 1.1W 1.2W Low power idle (avg.) 0.85W 0.9W Standby (avg.) 0.2W 0.25W Sleep 0.1W NC Physical size: Height (mm) 9.5 Width (mm) 70 Depth (mm) 100 Weight - typical (g) 115 Environmental characteristics: Operating: http://www.planetx64.com Powered by Joomla! Generated: 22 September, 2008, 02:42 PlanetX64 Ambient temperature 5