HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5-Inch 1TB 7200 RPM SATA III 32MB Cache Internal Hard Drive 0J22423

I purchased the HGST Travelstar 7K1000 1TB hard drive because I wanted to know what HGST stood for. No, really, I got this drive because the platters spin at 7200 rpm instead of the more common 5400 rpm of most notebook/laptop computer hard drives. That means this drive will be faster at moving the data around. And 7200 sounds like a much more impressive number than 5400. Since I planned on storing photos and videos, I needed a drive with a lot of storage space and the 7200 rpm speed. If I were also planning on placing programs on this drive, I would also have considered some of the hybrid drives from Seagate which have solid state memory sufficient to cache frequently used programs as well as traditional platters that spin at 5400 rpm. But since my needs were for things that wouldn't take advantage of the cache, I bought this instead. Plus, it's really quite inexpensive and it is one of the few 7200 rpm notebook drives available. Installation was very easy on my Lenovo (although your own computer may be more difficult), because all I had to do was open up the case, unscrew and remove the hard drive caddy, unscrew and remove the old hard drive, then put this new HGST in the caddy and reverse the process. In fact, you can feel like a mad scientist by wildly cackling, "Ha! Now I shall reverse the process!" as you do that. Once installed, it's just a matter of making the partition active in Windows. I thought of naming the new partition "Dolly" as in Dolly Partition, but then I realized that none of you young kids would even understand the joke, so I just named the partition Data instead. No, just "Data" not "Data Instead." Sheesh. Anyway, since then, it's been happily working to store my data without any problems whatsoever. It's nowhere near as fast as the solid state hard drive I use to boot the notebook computer, but it's plenty fast enough to play back 4K video streams or load 36 megapixel images into Photoshop. And I just laugh, because it's cheaper than some pokey 5400 rpm drives. So, if your needs are for data storage and you need reasonable, reliable speed without a huge expense, this is the drive you should consider. If on the other hand, you need a drive for both programs and data storage, you should consider either an expensive solid state drive or a hybrid drive that has both solid state storage and 5400 rpm platters. You'll appreciate having the programs load quickly in that hybrid set up while still having good amounts of inexpensive storage space. Just want to make sure you understand that you should get the option that best suits your needs and budget. Oh, and HGST stands for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, or at least it used to, until they had a deal with Western Digital. So now you know. You didn't think I'd tease that in the opening sentence and not let you know, right?

This is an update to my original review because there have been several complaints about receiving used / refurbished drives being sold as new, or open box. These are fine drives if you get a new on as detailed below. However, you have no idea what a used one as been through and I wouldn't buy one. The 5 star rating only applies to New Unused old stock drives. Hitachi / HGST doesn't make these any longer and they have been bought by WDC so you have to find a drive that has never been used. Be VERY WARY of so-called open box drives. I received an open box drive that had over 10,000 hours of power on time!!! A few vendors open the drive's Mylar casing and test it. These should show 1 Hour or less power on time and ONE Start up power cycle. There are fine. I use Crystal Disk Info to verify power on hours and cycles. It's a free program. You should run it on the newly acquired drive. if the drive was never opened, it should initially show ZERO power on hours and ONE power cycle. If the vendor tested it (this is Ok as far as I am concerned) then it should show ONE or less power on hours and TWO power cycles. IN NO WAY SHOULD THERE BE MORE THAN 1 OR 2 POWER CYCLES OR 2-3 POWER ON HOURS. Anything over that indicates a used drive. With all that said these are fast, reliable and quiet. Hitachi drives were made in their Global Storage Facilities in Thailand which is a top quality facility that they originally acquired from IBM. Make sure you get the SATA 6Gb / Sec drive for the fastest performance. It's an electronics upgrade to the earlier 3 Gb / Sec drives. Hitachi / HGST drives have consistently been rated the most durable by large sate warehousing companies. This was my original review and if you get a NEW UNUSED one it still applies: These Hitachi drives work great. This looks to be the same item as the HGST Travelstar 0S03563 1TB SATA Hard Drive Kit... because I got one of each and they look to be the same drive. I'm not using these as boot drives, but rather as backup and additional storage for the main drive. And I STILL only source Hitachi / HGST drives as the boot drives in all my systems. I prefer the 500GB drives as boot drives.

I bought this for an Asus UL20FT running Linux with a failing 320GB hard drive. That laptop has "only" a SATA 2 interface, but its 300 MB/sec transfer rate far exceeds the sustained transfer rate of the new drive... so kind of a non-issue. I was not impressed with Amazon's packaging (see pic). But the drive appeared undamaged and went in without a hiccup. After reinstalling the OS I saw it reported the drive's temperatures between 95 and 104 Farenheit, which seemed consistent with the touch test. I didn't do any performance measurements but it definitely feels faster than the old drive. Some folks here complained that capacity is not as advertised, but it's normal practice for drive vendors to pretend that a gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes and not 1024 to the 3rd power like the rest of the industry does. Capacity reported by my OS is about 1.015 trillion bytes. Cheap, fast, quiet, spacious and reportedly reliable. I'm very pleased with this purchase. Will definitely update this review if that changes. UPDATE 2016-05-28: The next day I did a SMART extended self-test of the drive and it was clean. Drive temperature got up to 111 F during that, then down to 91 when idle. Manufacturer specs say ambient temp can be as high as 140 so it seems clear that I will be overheating long before the drive does!

Using this drive in a Ninja 2 HDMI recorder for video work. The HGST line was listed as acceptable for the Ninja 2 units. The drive inserts into the caddy and into the Ninja 2 just fine. The 9.5mm height is good for the unit. There is some loose movement, something a slip of fabric will resolve. Recording to the drive in the Ninja 2 appears to work. After formatting, the drive reports the model as 1TB and shows that there is around 9 hours of recording time available at 1080p30 or 1080i60 in 422 HQ mode. Recording with the stock Atomos NP-F550 battery seems to give me about 1-1.5 hours before the battery goes from the charged 8.4V down to around 6.9-7.1V. This drain rate is definitely faster than when I had an ADATA 64GB SSD in the unit. The drive also gets very warm. The metal mount plates of the Ninja 2 on the top and bottom get hot to the touch after running a recording session for 20-25 minutes. While recording, I moved the Ninja 2 around a bit and did not feel much of a resistance to movement like I would get with a 3.5" spinning drive. There was also almost no noise from the drive. My drive arrived in a mylar bag. No retail or bulk packaging box. And it was loose in the shipping box with just a bit of packing paper. So during the delivery process, I'm guessing the drive was bounced around... alot. *Sigh* So hopefully, this drive will last a good long time. For about $70, it's a good deal to test out the setup. Pros: * light * silent * very little centripetal force when drive spinning * 9 hours of HQ recording time * fits very well (9.5mm + a thin shim or just screw the drive in place = win ) * works fine in the Ninja 2 for 1080HD work. (Atomos notes this drive is not sufficient for 4K work in their higher end units. ) Cons: * runs hot * higher power draw ( estimate about 1-2 hours of recording time with a single NP-F550 battery. Definitely suggest a second battery or some of the beefier NP-F570 batteries or perhaps even the NP-F975 batteries... haven't tried the F7xx or F9xx series batteries, but they all seem to share the same mount plate system and voltage levels. Just different battery heights and capacities. Since the Ninja 2's mounting is open back, the extra height is immaterial. ) * shipping/packing has no shock/bump protection (not sure if this is the seller's fault or amazon's fulfillment's fault)

When I observed that the hard drive in my laptop computer was exhibiting traits that suggested its imminent failure, I ordered this HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5-Inch 1TB 7200 RPM SATA III 32MB Cache Internal Hard Drive. My Amazon Prime account promised two-day delivery but I was delighted to receive this drive the next day. Meanwhile, concerned about possible data loss, I use my Acronis True Image software to do a full mirror backup of my laptop computer onto a large external USB drive that I own for that purpose. Shortly after this drive arrived, I installed it in a USB 3.0 2.5" enclosure, then I successfully cloned everything from my laptop's internal hard drive onto this one. My next step was to shut down my laptop computer, remove all power sources, take out the old hard drive and replace it with this one. Once I restored power to my laptop computer, I was able to boot it without a problem. This hard drive automatically triggered the installation of a special driver and a re-boot. Once done, I observed that this hard drive is faster than the 1TB 5,400 RPM drive that was previously in my computer. It appears to have reduced my boot time by about 10%. Opening large files and programs also take noticeably less time. This review represents my initial experiences with this hard drive, which are good, but having owned this hard drive for just a day, I cannot comment on its long-term durability. Nonetheless, my initial experience, partitioning, formatting and cloning was positive. This drive's performance exceeds that of my previous one. UPDATE: As of April 2018, this hard drive is still performing flawlessly.

Good thing I'm not superstitious, cause I of what I am about to state: perhaps cheap, fast, & good CAN/DOES exist, afterall!!! replaced, on my own, the 500GB 7200rpm drive that came in my late-2011 MacBook Pro... it finally died :( kaput. mechanical fail. epic. SHOCKER, right? RIP KALI_6.3 – That one *was* the bestest/fastest/largest capacity drive avail at the time (& was for quite a while, too.) So, after a lil research, (ok, more that 'a lil' prolly, knowing me, THOUGH it's totally relative. & also compared to my übergeekiness with researching everything from cat treats to rocket surgeons, it really was not relatively long,) just one single evening! on mac forums, another site with egg in it's name, and then of course, reviews here on amazon... I, obviously got this one. IT'S AH-MAY-ZING that this is SOO affordable & 2x the capacity of my previous drive & the same RPMs &&&& it totally fit &... so far, so good!! (I remember in college having to get a special order 5.5GB drive cost nearly $600, & filled up my entire backpack! Yes: The singularity *is* near.) (Shoot, I just remembered that I forget if I had to get a connector, or not. OK - that MIGHT be good to make a note of/ be prepared for.) (Though if I did have to get a thingie, it was not an issue. Either I didn't need it, a friend had one, I took it off of something else, or I walked to/got it from radioshack, (even though they'd been going out of biz for ~year & only had like 2% of random items remaining... Sorry, can't recall.) Point is, you might need one, but getting one is non issue.) The fact that this product is listed as by "HGST, a Western Digital Company," eased my concern buying such an important item, sight unseen, for to my g33kish understanding, they (WD) are one of thee main few hardware manufacturers found inside most every gizmo that exists, no matter what the outer branding states... (even though I do have at least on WD ext HD that's "failed," but there's prolly no innocent brand left, & this is raw internal hardware, so, I got it. & would, again.) I didn't realize *how* incredibly effed up my drive had been, in soooo many ways, for soooo long. I had to get a new drive, pronto, for I waited too long, already... By the sound of it ALONE! Like a jet engine. ...I did consider solid state, but, I prefer the extra bytes & speed & data flexibility/re/writability ... Turned on computer (oh, booted from a usb thumbdrive I'd already installed & tested OSXetcs on, with this and my macMini, & it immediately recognized that it did not recognize it. Rad. So, I formatted it and partitioned it into 2 even parts and installed the newest OSX.whatevertheycallitnowadays... from scratch, through the internets via iCloud, (didn't do any auto transferring of old data, for I prefer to start a new maschine all clean-like,) &... it's been several months now & ALLES IST GÜT :) If I recall, the reviews were pretty much good, or reallllly not... so as with anything, you can get faulty bits. It happens. So many bits, afterall! Fortunately, these bytes of mine are hunky dory. (& I realllly hope it stays that way. For after many moons of prying open, frankensteining inside, & resealing my computer... uhm, yeah; No. That back is ON THERE, FOR GOOD, now.) &thus concludes my review; which reminds me why I rarely leave reviews. ;p

A nice complement to my Dell Latitude E6430's 8GB of memory and Intel Core i7 processor. Performs better than most conventional laptop hard drives, but probably not for the reason you think. Forget that 7200 RPM rotation speed - it does improve things a bit, but it's mostly marketing hype. Instead, look at the other specs, most notably the SATA III interface and cache size. The SATA III interface makes it possible to get data in and out of this drive faster than most of its competitors, which have SATA II interfaces. (Of course, this only helps if your laptop has a SATA III interface. If it doesn't, then throughput will be no better than what you'd get with a SATA II drive.) The other factor that really matters is that this drive has a 32MB cache. Most laptop hard drives have only an 8MB cache. The bigger cache improves performance, because more reads then come from the drive's cache memory and less work needs to be done by the mechanical parts of the drive. Obviously, a bigger cache would be even better. If you can find a laptop hard drive with a 64MB cache, it will outperform this one. And that's also why the relatively now SSHD hybrid drives perform better still - they have what amounts to an 8GB cache. But I found the HGST Travelstar 7K1000 1TB drive at a price comparable to regular 1TB drives with SATA II interfaces and 8MB caches (and, yes, 5400 RPM rotation speeds), while those nicer drives were all significantly more expensive.

I bought this drive for two reasons... A) I wanted more space for my PS4, and B) I wanted a drive that was faster than the stock 5400 rpm drive that came in the PS4. I searched high & low for a decently priced 2 Terabyte (TB), 2.5" drive that was 7200 RPM. It doesn't exist. Sony chose to use the ultra thin laptop drives that are more expensive than the standard 3.5" drives and the storage capacity is severely limited as well. Before ordering this specific drive I started playing Watch Dogs on my PS4. The loading times are atrocious for this game. So I looked for a new drive that wasn't just bigger, but faster as well. You know what I found after installing the new 1TB 7200 RPM drive into my PS4? I found that games load at pretty much the same exact speed as before. So if you're deciding on a new drive for your PS4, go with the 2TB 5400 RPM instead. The increased space is more beneficial than the unnoticeable speed difference of a 7200 rpm drive. And forget about Solid State Drives (SSD). I read all the comparisons done by websites and the difference in speed is so small compared to the enormous price increases. I also own an Xbox One. Microsoft made a better choice going with additional external storage. I bought a 4TB 7200 RPM external drive for that and it's a lot easier than having to disassemble the console. Hopefully Sony will allow external storage soon. Because after a year or two, these 1 or 2TB drives will easily fill up. And I'm not gonna be swapping out internal drives constantly. Just to put it in perspective; I had 6 games installed on the stock hard drive and I only had 48% of free space left. AFTER 6 GAMES!! So that's how much space these games take up. Try to get the biggest drive you can and don't put an emphasis on the speed, because it won't make a noticeable difference.