Cheap hard drive, Hitachi HCS5C1050CLA 500 GB

Hitachi HCS5C1050CLA 500 GB is one of Cinemaster series. Its capacity is 500 GB, with the maximum usage is 465.8 GB. This product brought several technologies, among other is CoolSpin. With CoolSpin, hard disk will operate more quite and only need small resource to process digital video applications. They key of this technology is the optimize of motor speed to create a balance between performance, effective power usage, and its acoustic.

Physically, there is nothing that interesting enough to be reviewed from this product. The interface uses SATA as well as the power supply. When it was tested, Hitachi HCS5C1050CLA has a good performance. But, unfortunately, when we were using the product for a long time, its performance was decreasing. Especially on its access time, which was record the longest time on 20.2 ms.



This internal hard drive is sold for about US $ 50.00. If you want to buy this product, we suggest that you only use it as data and multimedia files storage. As its speed only 7200 rpm, it's not really suitable for operating system.

Specifications:

Firmware version: N/A
Form Factor: 3.5 inch
Formatted capacity: 500 GB
Real capacity: 465.8 GB
Physical Dimensions: 26.1 mm x 147 mm x 101.6 mm
Weight: 400 g
Average rotational Latency: 3.00 ms
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
Interface: SATA 3GB/s
Buffer-to-Host Data Rate: 3 GB/s (max)
Buffer size: 16 MB

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