Hitachi SATA II - 250 Gig Hard Drive Review, Including RAID tests

[Jasonhk]

Hey Guys,

Solo, aka Sheik has done a review on Hitachi's relatively new SATA II capable HDT722525DLA380 250GB hard drives.

Link

As posted on Tweaktown Frontpage

However, it doesnt just stop there peeps, he's got four of these buggers to play with, and what better way to impress than to whack 'em into a RAID 0 array on a SATA II equipped nForce4 platform and push out some INSANE benchmarking results (328MB/s burst anyone?). I warn you in advance though, reading this may very well entice you to spend lots of money!

I have one of these drive here, can't afford more, but they will come.

4 in Raid0 beats Raptors in the same raid config.

Cheers All,
Jason

[Jasonhk]

No one interested?

[masterofpuppets]

Holy crap, SATA II looks promising

[Jasonhk]

Three Drives in RAID 0



Well, well. According to Sandra 2005, 3 Hitachi SATA 300’s are just ahead of 4 x 10000 RPM Raptors! Very nice.

Check out 4 HardDrive in RAID0! Dam, Some Awesome Speeds there

L I N K !

[eva2000]

dam fast!

[Jasonhk]

dam fast!

Beats the pants of the Raptors and way cheaper per gig

359MB/s Burst Speed!!

PCMark04 (HHD Score – 8842)

check IT

http://www.net-forums.net/forums/Hit...ew-t21127.html

[Mehmet_Ali]

Have any other brands released SataII drives?

[Sheik]

Have any other brands released SataII drives?

Only other one I know of currently is the Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA II 300GB.

Yow Jason

Yeh it was fun.

[SPQQKY]

Have been looking at those drives. Very affordable and fast. I saw Seagate sataII at mwave.

[JDizzle]

Wow, makes me want to sell my Raptor and pick one up. I actually might do that, but do they make those in smaller sizes?

[Sheik]

You get an 80 GIG and 160 GIG but according to Hitachi they dont perform anywhere as well as the 250 GIG ie fewer platters.

[NickK]

I'd be interested if the speed wasn't attached to huge 300Gb drives!

Give me 4x36Gb SATAII drives which run at 10K, my mass storage is handled elsewhere. All I want is to run windows, apps and have workspace on the RAID0 array

[Sheik]

I've been running this Hitachi SATA II for over a week now as my main drive and I can honestly say there is a noticable increase in daily tasks. From bootup to app loading and file copy. Definitely a good investment if you have a SATA 300 compatible mobo.

[Jasonhk]

I've been running this Hitachi SATA II for over a week now as my main drive and I can honestly say there is a noticable increase in daily tasks. From bootup to app loading and file copy. Definitely a good investment if you have a SATA 300 compatible mobo.

I second that! Thanks SOLO for organising it

[Sheik]

No problemo.

[mike]

You get an 80 GIG and 160 GIG but according to Hitachi they dont perform anywhere as well as the 250 GIG ie fewer platters.

Awesome article - thanks a lot!
Could you give me some more info on that one? I was looking into buying on the 160GB drives - but if they are slower - I'd be bummed. They run around $95 which would be a decent price...

[Hombre]

These HDD's look promising as hell. Give me an additional 8MB cache and I'm sold (BTW, Hitachi is the only company who sells true SATAII 300MB's HDD's, the Maxtor's and Seagate's are 150MB's only).

[Sheik]

Awesome article - thanks a lot!
Could you give me some more info on that one? I was looking into buying on the 160GB drives - but if they are slower - I'd be bummed. They run around $95 which would be a decent price...

Thanks.

I haven't tried the 160 GIG drives so I would be lying if I said they were slower. I'm just quoting what someone from Hitachi told me.

[b|gf|sh]

(BTW, Hitachi is the only company who sells true SATAII 300MB's HDD's, the Maxtor's and Seagate's are 150MB's only).

Erm, how about Samsung? :p

[bbks]

Hi!

I am new here but have been reading posts on this forum for a very long time. I just ordered one 250Gb T7k250 Sata and I will get it at the end of the week. Hitachi has done a very good job with their drives . Before I was a Maxtor fan but after the 7k250 series I went over to Hitachi and now it seems I will keep going Hitachi .

[Funny_S]

I ordered 4 Hitachi's SATA-II of 80Gb, cost about 3€ more then the SATA-I
let's put these babies in raid and wait for some nice results

[Agent-JCDenton]

Sup y'all,

A quick off topic question. I've got got 2 raid setups as shown in my sig. I can't share any files on my network on any of the two setups. Only shares on the maxtor IDE drive can be accessed by other ppl. Any ideas what could be wrong?

[mike]

weird - you sure you have sharing enabled for the drives?

[mike]

I've been running this Hitachi SATA II for over a week now as my main drive and I can honestly say there is a noticable increase in daily tasks. From bootup to app loading and file copy. Definitely a good investment if you have a SATA 300 compatible mobo.

Sheik - how would you think the Sata II 4 drives stripe would hold up against a UW320 15,000RPM 4 drive stripe set?

I ordered 4 Hitachi's SATA-II of 80Gb, cost about 3€ more then the SATA-I
let's put these babies in raid and wait for some nice results

Funny-S - can't wait to see what you'lll get out of them - you mind to bench 'em properly? ABout to order some drives myself - now that Western Digital came out today with some more Sata II drives there are even more choices....

[Agent-JCDenton]

weird - you sure you have sharing enabled for the drives?

Yeah, i've double checked the security settings and the user access levels are all the same for the folders on the Maxtor IDE as on the RAID drives, but nothing works.

What is even more weird is that i'm running a website on the Raptor RAID setup and everyone can view the entire site (the pictures seem to have a few issues showing every now and then tho). But i can't even share actual files such as movies or executables other than on the site.

I jus don't get it