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HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5-inch Mobile Hard Drive Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2013-04-08

The Travelstar 7K1000 from HGST is a speedy and silent HDD that should fit in most laptops (has a height of 9.5mm) and offers 1TB of storage at our disposal. The drive features Advanced Format and also best-in-class shock tolerance.

Introduction

At first we would like to thank HGST for offering a sample of their latest Travelstar 7K1000 2.5-inch Mobile HDD for testing and reviewing.

About HGST:

"HGST, (formerly Hitachi GST), offers reliable protection when you need it most, whether you want storage that's personal, portable, tough or high performing.

Mission

Deliver the industry’s best customer experience through innovation, product breadth, quality and operational excellence.

Description

HGST (formerly Hitachi GST and now a Western Digital company) provides a wide range of products that includes hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, and innovative external storage solutions and services that store, preserve and manage the world’s most valued data."

Comment from danwat1234 @ 2013/05/30

Nice drive. Incremental performance increase is good but of course it's not a screamer by any means. I estimate that sequential transfer rates double for every 6x of density increasement and because density has stayed the same for years now, you would have to wait forever to get any significant performance boost versus these current drives.
It could be another year before WD releases a 2x500GB platter 7200RPM laptop drive who knows

I hope Seagate doesn't stay with the news that they are ditching 7200RPM laptop drives. I want a 1TB 7200RPM hybrid drive with 16 or 32GB of flash memory!

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