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HGST Travelstar 7K1000,
I recently acquired a used ThinkPad T420 and bought this 1TB HGST Travelstar 7K1000 as an upgrade from the 500GB stock OEM drive. I have a lot of music, videos, and pictures so I wanted a fast, large-capacity HD to store it all without having to lug around an external HD and also leave me plenty of room for future growth. I’ve always been drawn to the IBM/Hitachi Travelstar line because of their good reliability record and first-class build quality so naturally, this is the first place I look when I’m shopping for a new laptop HD. Originally, I had my mind set on the Travelstar 5K1000 but when I learned there was a 7200-RPM version of that drive, the 7K1000, I decided to go with this model due to the better performance, especially since the price difference between the 5K1000 vs. the 7K1000 was only a few dollars.
As of this review (1/8/13), the 7K1000 is the fastest, largest-capacity laptop HD money can buy. Best of all, it comes in a standard 9.5mm high package, meaning it should fit in the drive bays of most regular laptops (many high-capacity laptop HDs come in thicker 12.5mm high packages that don’t fit in today’s slimline laptops). I should warn you, however, that it might not fit into ultrabooks, which usually accept only thinner 7mm high drives. Being a high-performance 7200-RPM drive, I expected the 7K1000 to be a little noisier and hotter than a slower 5400-RPM equivalent but to my delight, I found the drive to be very quiet, hardly any louder than the 5400-RPM Travelstar 5K500.B I have in my other ThinkPad. Short of putting my ear directly over the laptop’s HD bay, the 7K1000’s seeking noises are virtually inaudible. It also runs pretty cool for a 7200-RPM drive, hovering around 30*C even after copying my ~60GB music collection onto it. I also looked at the power-consumption specs for both the 5K1000 and 7K1000 and the difference is only a small fraction of a watt, meaning a minimal hit to battery life (which could probably be offset just by making the screen one notch dimmer). The jury is still out on long-term reliability as my 7K1000 only has 8 hours of use on it but so far, so good. I’ve had good luck with the 5K500.B I bought back in 2009 and I’m hoping this one will serve me just as well.
UPDATE 2/14/13
There seems to be some confusion about this drive, as I have since discovered that there appear to be two different versions of this drive, one with a 16MB cache and the other with a 32MB cache. However, I have reason to suspect that the 16MB-cache version is actually a 32MB unit in an incorrectly-labeled box. Having noticed this discrepancy, I e-mailed HGST directly about this issue and gave them the exact model and serial number of my specific drive (which came in a box that indicated the drive had a 16MB cache) and they informed me that my drive actually has a 32MB cache. I then brought up the technical-specification page on the HGST website ([…]) and confirmed that the model number of my drive (HTS721010A9E630) matched the model number on the HGST site, which indicates this drive indeed has a 32MB cache. I suspect initial shipments of this drive may have been packaged in old boxes left over from the previous-model drive and thus show incorrect specifications. This is only my own personal speculation and I may be wrong, but hopefully my findings should help clarify some of the confusion.
As long as I’m updating this review, I might as well give a reliability update on my 7K1000. My drive now has ~70 hours on the clock and no issues yet, aside from a slowly-increasing Ultra ATA CRC Error Count, which I suspect may be due to a weird fluke in the T420’s BIOS rather than a problem with the drive itself as it predictably goes up 1-2 points each time I start the computer and does not increase further (even after copying ~100GB of files) until the next boot. Other than that, my 7K1000 seems to be working perfectly.
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|So far perfect,
Bought this directly from J&R here in NYC to replace a 500GB Hitachi Travelstar 7200rpm drive. So far works like a charm.
I was a little nervous and opted to buy this product in person rather than via Amazon, since I was not sure about this 1TB 7200 drive, as it is the only 7200 1TB drive out there and non-existing on Hitachi’s website. However, J&R had it in the original box and packaging similar to the 500Gb drive that it replaced. It is a 9.5 mm drive and fit perfectly into my 15″ MacBook Pro 2.33 C2D from late 2006.
Cannot say much yet about effects on battery charge. May post an update about this later.
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|Hitachi does it again.,
Now they go by HGST, but they’re still the best hard drive manufacturer in my opinion. Never experienced a bad drive from them in the past and still havent today with this one. The thing I love about their 2.5″ hard drives are that they’re dead silent. No vibrations. Where as I have a samsung 2.5 and that thing would vibrate my entire Macbook making it uncomfortable to rest my hands on and audible as it caused the laptop to vibrate against any slightly uneven surface. So, I can recommend this drive. It’s the only 7200RPM 2.5 on the market right now I think. So far so good.
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