Hardware :: Seagate Or Hitachi ?

Sep 9, 2008

I'm gonna replace my Powerbook's hard drive myself.Any reason to choose a Seagate over an Hitachi?
Does Seagate make better HDs?

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MacBook :: Hitachi 7k500 Versus Seagate 7200.4

Apr 5, 2010

Ok so recently I got a 500gb seagate 7200.4 and I loved it except for my high load cycle count. So I exchanged it for the hitachi. Now with this hitachi I am also experiencing high load cycle counts, more power consumption than my seagate and it's louder. Except the seagate did have a faint clicking sound while booting up where the hitachi doesn't. My seagate also seemed a bit faster.

Can someone sway me to either stick with the hitachi or go back to the seagate based on your own thougts and experiences as well as my input.

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MacBook Pro :: Seagate Momentus XT Vs Hitachi Travelstar 7K500

Aug 1, 2010

15" i7 macbook pro to arrive, and I'm looking at which 7200 rpm hard drive to buy to replace the 5400 rpm one with.I've narrowed it down to the Seagate momentus xt and the Hitachi Travelstar 7k500.Not only speed is important, because from what I've read the Seagate is a bit faster. But what i'm more worried about is noise, vibrations, heat and battery life.

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MacBook Pro :: Seagate Drive Stops And Freezes Computer / Seagate 7200RPM 500Gb

Aug 7, 2010

I think I have a slight issue with my 7200rpm 500gb seagate drive. Once or twice every hour it seems to stop and start up again. Kinda klicks. It causes my computer to freeze for about 3 seconds. Whats causing it? Is it faulty? I should also mention that it didn't do this when i first got it. This is the model without the SMS.

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MacBook :: Hitachi Travelstar H2IK5001672SP

Aug 24, 2010

I'm looking to replace my Hard Drive in my 2.4 Unibody Macbook and stumbled across this Hitachi drive on Newegg. I've read great reviews for the Travelstar 7k500 in Macbooks and other Hitachi drives, however the 7K500 isn't available on Newegg anymore.

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IMac :: 27" I7 With 2TB Hitachi Humming?

Sep 10, 2010

Last week I recieved my 27" iMac i7 2,93GHz with the 2TB Hitachi Drive.

I ordered this drive because it was said in this forum that this one should be silent.

Now, during access it is not really silent, but thats no problem

What bothers me more is, that there is a permament silent hum. An I can fell this vibration even on the stand (hopefully this is the correct term, I am from Austria, so english is not my native language).

And this vibration is also forwarded onto the table, but it is not really feelable on the table.

So my question is: Some say that their iMac is "dead silent". Mine isn�t, I also can here the fans silently, but that doesn�t bother me either. But this humming is somewhat distracting or annoying.

Maybe I am just to "picky", but do you really have iMacs which are almost inaudible?

Because I do not have any other problems I am not sure whether I should ask for a replacement.

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Mac Pro :: New Hitachi 1TB Versus Stock And (Benchmarks)?

Mar 15, 2008

Ok... so... tonight my most badass girlfriend actually BOUGHT me another 1 TB drive as a surprise for the Mac Pro!!! God, you gotta love that girl! This replaced the stock 320 Gig drive which I HAD previously been using for Media only (Itunes library and the like) with a 1TB Western Digital Green drive (Best buy w/ coupon for $206).

Well, I thought I'd devise a little benchmark to test just how crazy fast the Hitachi 1TB that I use as a boot drive is vs the original drive that Apple shipped (320 Western Digital) and others in my system...

So this is what I did. Might be right, might be wrong, don't really care... but I THINK this is a great representative of total, complete "speed and throughput" of a hard drive.

I created a folder called "Test Folder" on my Hitachi 1TB (Boot Drive). I added to this folder the following subfolders / files:

1 Folder Entitled "Movies" containing 12 Large Files = 8.5 Gigabytes
1 Folder Entitled "Guns n Roses" containing 67 Medium Files = 455 Megabytes
Copied / Added the OS X "Extensions" Folder containing 271 Small Files = 208 Megabytes
Copied / Added the OS X "Frameworks" Folder containing 57,263 Tiny Files = 1.49 Gigabytes

This gave me a total of 57,617 Files of VARYING Sizes totaling 10.64 Gigabytes.

I then proceeded to DUPLICATE this folder on each of my drives... which I believe shows a great overall speed indicator...

"read/write/in-cache/out-of-cache/tiny to huge file size"

And as it is doing all of the reading / writing on the SAME DRIVE... that eliminates any drive compatibility problems, slow to fast drive copy speed interpretation, bus issues, etc.

And here are my results... pretty stunning if you ask me... I think Apple really stuck some DOG SLOW drives in there as stock. I honestly think they should be ashamed of themselves.

Time to Duplicate Folder on Stock Hard Drive: (Western Digital 320 Gig WD3200AAJS) = 9 Minutes, 08 Seconds

Time to Duplicate Folder on Hitachi 1TB Replacement: (Hitachi HDS721010KLA330) = 5 Minutes, 35 Seconds

Time to Duplicate Folder on Western Digital 1TB Drive: (Western Digital WD10EACS-00ZJBO) = 6 Minutes, 20 Seconds

Time to Duplicate Folder on Older WD 500GB Drive: (Western Digital 5000AAJS-32YFA0) = 7 Minutes, 18 Seconds

Time to Duplicate Folder on Older WD 400GB Drive: (Western Digital D4000KD-00NAB0) = 8 Minutes, 52 Seconds

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MacBook :: Hitachi 7K500 Have A G Sensor?

Mar 28, 2010

My friend is stuck on this drive .

But he asked me to find out if it had the G sensor or not. Obviously Macs have there own sensor so he wants to get one without the sensor so it doesnt interfere.

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MacBook Pro :: Does The Hitachi 7K500 Have A G Sensor?

Mar 29, 2010

I currently have the seagate 7200.4 500gb but i noticed my load cycle count is already at 8000 after only 3 weeks of use. So I think Im going with the hitachi 7k500. if this has the g sensor built in? if so does this interfere with my macbooks g sensor?

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PowerPC :: Install Hitachi 1tb Drive In Imac G5?

May 28, 2007

im wondering is it possible to install a hitatchi 1tb drive in my imac g5 because i think read somewhere that the hitatchi 750gb drive wasnt 1,5gbs Compatable i dont know if this applies to the 1tb drive

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MacBook Pro :: Using Mid-09 UMBP With Hitachi 7200 Drives?

Jan 21, 2010

I've read all the horror stories about how the mid-09 MBP hard drive firmware update and non-Apple 7200 RPM HDDs don't get along. Most of these seem to be related to the use of a SATA 3.0 drive (which shouldn't matter, since mechanical hard drives can't even make use of the full SATA 1.5, but I digress).

I'm about to buy a new Mac, and, even though the Macbook, which doesn't seem to have these problems, would suit my needs just fine (my camcorder is USB and my digital cameras both use CF), I might spring for the MBP anyway (likely to get the additional 2" of screen space on the low-end 15", which has the closest resolution to what I am used to on my outgoing T60).

Obviously, I could pay Apple to upgrade to one of their 7200 RPM drives, assuming I get the 15". But that seems silly, since I can buy, for less than $100 (i.e., half the upgrade cost from Apple, plus I keep the old drive), a Hitachi Travelstar 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 drive. My questions are:

1) Has anybody successfully upgraded to such a drive (or its 320 GB little brother, which is otherwise speced the same) in a mid-2009 MBP?

2) If so, did you have to downgrade the firmware as suggested in these forums?

3) If so, did you have to "tweak" the drive in any fashion to make it work?

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OS X :: External Hitachi Hard Drive Beeping?

Apr 13, 2010

Today I was transferring files from my unibody Macbook Pro over to my 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3.0 Gb/s Hitachi external hard drive. The files were almost transferred when I accidently knocked the drive off of my bed and onto the carpet floor which disconnected the drive's USB cable from my laptop.

Now when I turn the drive on it continuously clicks and beeps and my macbook won't recognize it. I found this video on youtube and it shows exactly what my external drive is doing.

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I have a ton of important data on this drive and I really don't want to lose it. What should I do? Could I take the drive to my nearby Apple Store?

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Hardware :: Hitachi E7K1000 Transfer Rate?

Feb 24, 2009

I just installed a new Hitachi E7K1000 1GB HD into my Powermac G5. I then found out my Powermac only uses drives at the 1.5GB transfer speed rate... i checked the specs for the hitachi drive at OWC and it says it is 3.0GB, not a 1.5/3.0GB hybrid. Could this cause trouble? The drive seems to be working fine so far... but does this mean this hitachi drive is not compatible with my mac?

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OS X V10.5 Leopard :: Hitachi HD Does Not Found In Destination Page

Apr 2, 2012

So I tried upgrading my hard drive to a new Hitachi HD and when I tried using the mac OS X DVD it doesn't find the hard drive in the destination page. I formatted it to mac os extended journaled with 1 partition and nothing I'm stuck. Here is a picture of the disk utility page I took a screenshot of.

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MacBook Pro :: Looking To Get One Or A Hitachi 500GB 7200 16MB Cache?

Nov 11, 2010

Anyone here have one and truly love it, I was watching some video on Tiger Direct where they put it to a test with a 7200 RPM, SSD, and 10K Drive and the Hybrid HDD was right behind the SSD.

Looking to get one or a Hitachi 500GB 7200 16MB Cache?

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PowerPC :: IBook G4 And Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 7200RPM ?

May 23, 2007

I just wanted to double check that this HD will work in the iBook G4, I dont see any reason why it wouldn't.[URL]

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Mac Mini :: Finding Review Of Hitachi 320gb 7200?

Mar 24, 2009

I'm purchasing the base model Mini and will be upgrading to a 7200 320 gb hardrive. I can purchase the 7200 Hitachi Travelstar today only for$69.00 Canadian. Since this is a one time thing, is this drive good enough or should I spend $30.00 to $50,00 more on a Seagate or WD. I've done a fair amount of research and read reviews but I would love to have some feedback from experienced Mini users.

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OS X :: Hard Drive Model - Hitachi - Fijitsu Or Scorpion?

Aug 13, 2009

I want to upgrade the hard drive of my MBP 13'' 2.26 Ghz. What would be a better choise (performance, noise,...): Hitachi, Fijitsu or Scorpion?

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OS X :: Are Hard Drives Other Than Hitachi Safe To Install On Macs?

Dec 7, 2009

Usually MacBooks come with Hitachi drives, and I'm wondering if it's possible to install a hard drive onto a MacBook Pro (2.4ghz Unibody) that isn't a Hitachi. (Western Digital, ...)

Would there be driver problems (Heating up, ...) and also the hard drive free-falling locking feature be disabled?

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MacBook :: Can't Install New Hitachi 500gb Hard Drive

Apr 25, 2012

I just installed a new Hitachi 500gb that replaced my old Hitachi 120gb. My hard drive was replaced about 1 1/2 years ago at the apple store. Now that it has died i was told to order a new hard drive less than 1 terribite (i know it's misspelled). I replaced it and pressed alt at boot and the disc appeared and I clicked it...selected ENGLISH and then went next...was ask to select where do i want this to info installed but it had nothing for me to select. it's obvious it's not recognizing my new hard drive. I can't go any further. Then when I select installer from the menu and select start up disc it shows an X on my MAC OX S installation disc 1??Could this be because when they gave me a new hard drive they used their discs...I don't know... I really don't wanna go BACK to the MAC store..

Info:
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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MacBook Pro :: Feature Tool Makes My Hitachi HDD Quiet As Dead

Nov 28, 2010

recently I upgraded the HDD of my macbook pro 13"(2009) to a Hitachi 7200RPM 500GB(7K500), it generates clicking noise and the Load_Cycle_Count attribute increases too fast, which has a 600000 limit. I searched on the forum, and saw many people have the same problem, someone suggests LCC is not spin-up/spin-down but Start_Stop_Count is, which is NOT true for laptop, it is only true for desktop with Windows which do not care about power saving so the HDD seldom parks its head.

Today I went to my friends house who has a desktop PC which support SATA HDD, so I plugged my 2.5" HDD in straight away, and booted from Hitachi's Feature Tool(you can google it and find the address), then I was able to adjust the APM level. Here are two photos:

I made it 192, which is the lowest value within Active idle range as I usually use my MBP as a desktop replacement, so battery is not an issue.

Hope this can help people with Hitachi HDD who are annoyed by the clicking noise and worried about the shortened life of HDD.

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MacBook Pro :: Hitachi 500GB 7200RPM Compatible With 13" Unibody Or Not?

Apr 20, 2010

I ordered this drive then ended up reading something that is making me worry. can anyone tell me just straight up, if it is compatible with it or not?

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MacBook Air :: Exporting Pictures To Hitachi External Drive Using IPhoto?

Feb 9, 2012

How do I export pictures from Mac Book Air to a Hitachi external hard drive. I have used the export function from i-photo but it will not transfer. However, when I use the export function to put the pictures onto a 4g usb stick it works?

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MacBook Air

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MacBook Pro :: Does Hitachi 7k500 500GB 7200 RPM Drive Have Head Parking?

Dec 20, 2009

I just installed it in my late 2008 uMBP. It's SUPER fast! Best upgrade ever.

Does anyone know if this drive has head parking (or whatever they call it)? Should I disable the SMS in the MBP?

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Software :: New Hitachi 7200 RPM 300GB HARD DRIVE Unexpectantly Full?

Jan 8, 2009

I upgraded my Mac Book Pro hard drive to a Hitachi 7200RPM 300GB Hard Drive in November. All of a sudden my Hard drive is full and I cannot explain why. I retrieved the folder size info from the six folders I have on my HD and it claims that I have filled up roughly 100GB on the hard drive. I understand the MAC OS X is roughly 4-5GBs, roughly another 15GB for threading the utility files, so I should still have at least 180GB of space free on the hard drive. I recently downloaded the application known as AZUREUS aka VUZE could this app have put some extraordinarily large hidden folders on my hard drive? I deleted this app but my HD is still stating that I have used up 278GB of space which I know cannot be right. Can anyone out there help me with this situation? I am lost and upset not sure what is going on. According to my hard disk utility I only have 2.6GB of space availble which is insane!

One more note around xmas I found that my MAC had crashed unexpectedly but is working fine right now expect for the fact the HD is full and I can only see roughly 100GB of files on my 300GB Hard drive.

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MacBook Pro :: Core 2 Duo 2.26GHz: Compatible With Hitachi Travelstar 5400/7200 Rpm?

Apr 12, 2012

I have a mid 2009 Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo with 2.26 GHz and will be upgrading both the RAM and hard drive. I've done a fair bit of research regarding which brand and have decided to go with the Hitachi Travelstar.

1) Is my Macbook Pro compatible with the Hitachi Travelstar? By this, I know the physical dimensions fit, but I'm actually wondering if there are any known problems in practice such as the dreaded EFI firmware issue or dropping the 3Gbps SATA to 1.5 speed issue, etc. I'm not sure if my specific Macbook Pro model is the same mid 2009 model that has all these problems so I just wanted to make sure. 

2) Assuming the Hitachi Travelstar is compatible, which model is better and why: the 7K500 or the 7K750. I'm especially interested in those who have personal experience of either of these (or both!)  

3) Should I buy the 5400 rpm or 7200 rpm version? Why? As of now, I'm trying to decide between 500 Gb, 640 Gb or 750 Gb (is there any difference to performance in regards of which size)? 

Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz

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MacBook Pro :: Upgraded HDD To Hitachi 7k500 7200rpm Annoying Noise/vibration Levels?

Oct 3, 2010

A couple days ago I upgraded my mid 2010 MBP 13 stock hdd(Hitachi 5400rpm 250gb) to a new one (Hitachi 7200rpm 500gb 7k500). I am still amazed by how much faster and more responsive system has gone.

Some change in noise/vibration was expected, but now I am starting to get a bit annoyed by vibration and HDD noise.

Vibration gets on my nerves- the levels are nowhere high, but there was no vibration in my stock HDD. In addition, the noise of the system on idle has roughly doubled- both fan and HDD are humming at the same level.

The system is still very quiet, but I could not help noticing it anyway. Is this normal?

I tried replacing the old HDD and found out that the problems were not present with it (=I am not likely to have made some awful mistakes putting the hard drive in).

Then I tried tightening all the screws as hard as possible and putting some rubberized washers on the corners of the HDD to ensure snuggly fit. All efforts rendered no change. Are there any other methods to reduce noise and vibration?

Furthermore, I still have one day to return the 7k500 without any loss. Should I get WD Scorpio Blue 500gb instead?

I have read user reports of similar problems with WD SB 640gb drives as well. Since these drives are essentially the same, I would expect similar problems with 500gb as well.

P.S. Is there any chance that the stock HDD is slightly "downclocked" by Apple? It does vibrate a lot inside external cradle. Furthermore, I tested a couple laptops in the local Apple store. Both MBP 15" and MBP 17" where equipped with 500gb 5400rpm drives.

However, MBP 17" was vibrating much more than the MBP 15" (maybe MBP 17 HDD runs at its native speed to increase the performance. The increased size of 17" makes the vibration effects less annoying).

The stock HDD vibrates just like the current one until after 1-2s after the power button is pressed- as if some sort of regulation kicks in after that point.

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MacBook :: Macbook - Thinkpad - Hitachi Minidrive

Dec 22, 2009

Got a hitachi 250gig minidrive. Would like to use it for the Macbook and a R52 thinkpad. What is the best way to format it. Its for pics and Open office documents. I'm running 10.4.11 and XP PRo

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Mac Pro :: How To Use Seagate SAS Drives

Mar 7, 2008

Well just switch to macPro to find out I can't use my Seagate 15.5 146Gig SaS drive unless I want to not use my SATA drives?

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MacBook Pro :: Use A Seagate Hybrid SSD?

Sep 6, 2010

first of all I would like to say that I am new to macrumors but not new to macs. I'm currently using a 15" MacBook Pro i7 with HR-AG. I have owned a 15" uMBP 2.8ghz (mid-2009), a 13" uMB 2.0ghz (late-2008) and a 13" Blackbook (late 2006).

i know it's alot of macs in a small timeframe but i love macs and always want to upgrade...which brings me to my next question..

Has anyone tried the Seagate Hybrid XT SSD, 7200RPM?

I want the performance of an ssd but not the high price tag. If someone is running this drive, I would like to hear about your experience with it.

I don't use my computer for editing, just browsing, notes and e-mail. However i am very curious about boot times. I love how fast an ssd boots up, and since i don't run any data intensive apps at all, i think a hybrid drive may be all that I need.

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