What's the difference between these two Hitachis?

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What's the difference between these two Hitachis?

Post by Rebellious » Wed May 19, 2010 3:31 pm

Two Hitachi Travelstars:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822145228

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822145274

What’s the difference between them? Is one the retail version of the other or are they different products?

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Post by whiic » Wed May 19, 2010 3:44 pm

HD20320 is not a model number for Hitachi HDD (or at least it doesn't follow model numbering convention used by Hitachi) so I believe it's a retail kit number.

That retail kit has a discount that makes the originally higher price lower than the bare drive, plus free shipping. I'd get the retail boxed version for lower price, regardless of whether it has the same warranty or shorter.

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Post by rpsgc » Wed May 19, 2010 3:50 pm

The boxed version's reference is HTS725032A9A364, it's a 7K500 model. The bare drive is a 7K320.


Travelstar 7K500
Travelstar 7K320

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Post by Rebellious » Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:23 am

Thank you. I got 2 and they're faster and quieter than my WD3200BEKT, the Hitachis have a whoosh sound without the piercing metallic whine of the WD. They sound more like 5400 RPM.

And now the big surprise. According to PassMark benchmarks...

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd_list.php

the HTS725032A9A364 that I got has a much higher score than the bare drive version HTS723232L9A360 ... the difference is huge, 297 rank vs 805. How do you explain that?

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Re: What’s the difference between these two Hitachis?

Post by Rebellious » Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:20 am

Hitachi is still around :)

Their latest 7K500 = HITACHI Travelstar H2IK5001672SP (0S02858)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822145361

also marketed as:

HD20500IDK/7K
0S00157
HTS725050A9A364
H2IK5001672SP
0S02858

What's the difference? The reason I'm asking is, as you can see from my OP one of the two 320s turned out much faster than the other. Is 0S02858 the real thing?

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Re: What’s the difference between these two Hitachis?

Post by rpsgc » Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:33 am

They are the same model. OEM vs Retail.

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Re: What’s the difference between these two Hitachis?

Post by Rebellious » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:13 am

rpsgc wrote:They are the same model. OEM vs Retail.
Thank you.

This one is much faster and newer? Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 HTS725050A7E630 (0J26005)

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Re: What’s the difference between these two Hitachis?

Post by rpsgc » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:33 am

I don't know about faster. It's SATA-6Gbps though but that doesn't mean anything.

That's not a 7K500, it's a Z7K500. The ZxK disks are slimmer, only 7mm thick.
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Re: What’s the difference between these two Hitachis?

Post by HFat » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:34 am

You don't know for a fact that there any difference, do you?

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Re: What’s the difference between these two Hitachis?

Post by rpsgc » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:34 am

HFat wrote:You don't know for a fact that there any difference, do you?
That's what "I don't know" usually means.

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Re: What’s the difference between these two Hitachis?

Post by Rebellious » Fri Apr 27, 2012 1:06 pm

HFat wrote:You don't know for a fact that there any difference, do you?
According to this, the HTS725050A7E630 is much faster, but you might need a new mobo to support 6GB sec.

http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd_list.php

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Re: What's the difference between these two Hitachis?

Post by HFat » Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:51 pm

Your link states: "The hard drive did not meet the required number of samples needed to be charted."
For all you know, you're going on a single report which could easily be bogus.
Putting your speculations in bold doesn't make up for the lack of extraordinary evidence an extraordinary claim requires.

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Re: What's the difference between these two Hitachis?

Post by Rebellious » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:09 am

HFat wrote:Your link states: "The hard drive did not meet the required number of samples needed to be charted."
For all you know, you're going on a single report which could easily be bogus.
Putting your speculations in bold doesn't make up for the lack of extraordinary evidence an extraordinary claim requires.
Yes, that could be. I couldn't find any for sale either, so maybe it's too new.

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