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Hitachi 7K320 - When can we actually get one?
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It's now "Same Day"
Mine's ordered. Should be here in a couple of days. Should be sweet!
They are available
I ordered one from OWC http://www.macsales.com/. It should arrive on Tuesday - july 1. As of today they had about 40 available. Price is $199.
I ordered one from OWC http://www.macsales.com/. It should arrive on Tuesday - july 1. As of today they had about 40 available. Price is $199.
Arrived, installed, and currently restoring from my previous internal drive.
This will be my first test of a Winclone restore.
Make sure to tell us how it performs
It's installed and running. Winclone worked perfectly. So far so good. I never did any bnchmarks of my old drive so any improvements I notice will be purely subjective.
Maybe I should just get it over with and say what all the fanboys say anytime Safari is updated. "It's snappier"
I'm almost positive it's been benchmarked already...check Google.
My benchmark will be to see how much better things go when I cull and process RAW camera files in Lightroom. That's my impetus for upgrading. I'm working on a Java project (a scientific app) that is highly data intensive and uses Java NIO for a disk-based (rather than in-memory) data model. It maybe seems faster running analyses, but is not a hugely noticeable difference.
I'll also be interested to see if battery life changes from when I was using my 5400 RPM WD 320.
I'm purchasing mine this afternoon, but I have a question for you...
I'm going to replace my 160GB 7200rpm drive currently in my MBP 17in. How do you install an OS (specifically 10.5) onto the hard drive as I've never done this before. Do I need to install 10.5.4 on a FW external HDD in order to format the internal HDD correctly??
Thanks in advance for your help.
(1st post btw
)This is what I do:I'm purchasing mine this afternoon, but I have a question for you...
I'm going to replace my 160GB 7200rpm drive currently in my MBP 17in. How do you install an OS (specifically 10.5) onto the hard drive as I've never done this before. Do I need to install 10.5.4 on a FW external HDD in order to format the internal HDD correctly??
Thanks in advance for your help.
(1st post btw
1. install new drive in MBP
2. install old drive in external FW enclosure
3. boot from old drive in FW enclosure (hold option key while starting)
4. use DiskUtility to format new internal: GUID Partition table, Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
5. use SuperDuper! to clone from external (old) drive to internal (new drive)
6. reboot from internal and do happy dance
I did not reinstall the OS, but if you want to do that, you can boot from the Mac OS install disk and use that to run DiskUtility for formatting and then install the OS. But there's nothing about getting a new drive that should force you to do a OS reinstall.
Thanks a million Race Tripper. When my MP's HDD failed, an Apple rep recommended either Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner. I chose CCC since it seemed the easiest. I'm guessing I can do the same with CCC as I can with SD.
As for the reinstallation of software, programs, etc. I'm actually going to be using my 160GB as a boot drive incase the 320 fails. But thank you for the steps to boot from the install CD to install the OS from scratch as I'll most likely be doing.
Thank you so much for your help (and wisdom). Ordering being placed for 7K320 and Mercury-On-The-Go FW800 as we speak...
As for the reinstallation of software, programs, etc. I'm actually going to be using my 160GB as a boot drive incase the 320 fails. But thank you for the steps to boot from the install CD to install the OS from scratch as I'll most likely be doing.
Thank you so much for your help (and wisdom). Ordering being placed for 7K320 and Mercury-On-The-Go FW800 as we speak...
CCC will also work, AFAIK. I've just always used SuperDuper! since I also use it to do daily backups.
I swear I saw something on a blog somewhere. Oh well, I don't have any benchmark software. I've never run anything. Honestly, I stopped worrying about that stuff many years ago. To me it either runs fast enough or it doesn't.
I just read that aparantly, as bit density goes up, RPM is no longer the whole story on drive performance so this begs the question:
are there specs comparing:
1 WD Scorpio 320GB 7,200RPM
2 Hitachi 7K320 320GB 7,200RPM
3 Samsung M6 500GB 5,400RPM
??
Also, OWC shows the 7K320 as "pending" any ideas?
are there specs comparing:
1 WD Scorpio 320GB 7,200RPM
2 Hitachi 7K320 320GB 7,200RPM
3 Samsung M6 500GB 5,400RPM
??
Also, OWC shows the 7K320 as "pending" any ideas?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136280
newegg has em now, 179$
amazing... the 320 5400 went up from 129$ to 159$....what gives there?!?!
newegg has em now, 179$
amazing... the 320 5400 went up from 129$ to 159$....what gives there?!?!
that's the WD 7k320 at newegg. we are talking hitachi 7k320 in this thread, which is cooler, and less power hungry than any other 7200 rpm drive, on par with 5400 rpm drives, while keeping the speed of a 7200... at least according to hitachi. but their drives to always seem to live up to expectations. and newegg doesn't have it yet.
anyway, OWC has them available for same day shipping as i type this. just ordered one
price is 199 with ~5-10 for basic or 2 day shipping, and it says there's a $30 manufac. rebate. so in the end it comes out cheaper than the WD 7k320 from newegg!
anyway, OWC has them available for same day shipping as i type this. just ordered one
price is 199 with ~5-10 for basic or 2 day shipping, and it says there's a $30 manufac. rebate. so in the end it comes out cheaper than the WD 7k320 from newegg!
that's the WD 7k320 at newegg. we are talking hitachi 7k320 in this thread, which is cooler, and less power hungry than any other 7200 rpm drive, on par with 5400 rpm drives, while keeping the speed of a 7200... at least according to hitachi. but their drives to always seem to live up to expectations. and newegg doesn't have it yet.
anyway, OWC has them available for same day shipping as i type this. just ordered one
price is 199 with ~5-10 for basic or 2 day shipping, and it says there's a $30 manufac. rebate. so in the end it comes out cheaper than the WD 7k320 from newegg!
i just bought one from OCW to replace the stock 200gb 5400 in my mbp. Its just a little too small.
169$ after rebate is a great deal i think. Im looking for a good fw400 enclosure, probably gonna go with OWC again, later on though.
Sweet, please post benchmarks when you get em up and running in your MBP's! Even though I'm in the UK, I've ordered from OWC before and never had a problem - great customer service etc...
anyone help me with deciding on the 500gb 5400 samsung, or the 320gb 7200 hitachi I just ordered?
The Hitachi will cost me 250$ with the fw800 enclosure, vs the 500gb 5400 @$320.
what you all think? The numbers seem to favor the 320 for speed, but its so close, im not sure itd matter.
I have 100GB of stuff/OSX that I currently need, and would like to give vista 60-100GB. Then, its all movies thatll go on to it, roughly 100-200GB.
The Hitachi will cost me 250$ with the fw800 enclosure, vs the 500gb 5400 @$320.
what you all think? The numbers seem to favor the 320 for speed, but its so close, im not sure itd matter.
I have 100GB of stuff/OSX that I currently need, and would like to give vista 60-100GB. Then, its all movies thatll go on to it, roughly 100-200GB.
7K320 Benchmark
Compared to the numbers posted earlier in this thread for competing drives these seem low. I'm not sure if these are low because it's in an external USB 2.0 enclosure, but here are the results straight out of the box. The stock internal 5400RPM Hitachi 120G drive in the mini got a 23.7 (48 sequential, 15 random) so even so it's a big improvement.
Results 31.41
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C7010)
Physical RAM 3072 MB
Model Macmini2,1
Drive Type Hitachi HTS723232L9A360
Disk Test 31.41
Sequential 33.15
Uncached Write 34.59 21.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 36.59 20.70 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 22.90 6.70 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 48.21 24.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 29.83
Uncached Write 10.46 1.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 67.20 21.51 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 85.03 0.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 84.17 15.62 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Compared to the numbers posted earlier in this thread for competing drives these seem low. I'm not sure if these are low because it's in an external USB 2.0 enclosure, but here are the results straight out of the box. The stock internal 5400RPM Hitachi 120G drive in the mini got a 23.7 (48 sequential, 15 random) so even so it's a big improvement.
Results 31.41
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C7010)
Physical RAM 3072 MB
Model Macmini2,1
Drive Type Hitachi HTS723232L9A360
Disk Test 31.41
Sequential 33.15
Uncached Write 34.59 21.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 36.59 20.70 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 22.90 6.70 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 48.21 24.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 29.83
Uncached Write 10.46 1.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 67.20 21.51 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 85.03 0.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 84.17 15.62 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Making any kind of judgment on a drive by comparing any external USB2 drive to an internal SATA 1.5 drive makes no sense. The only valid comparison is internal SATA vs. internal SATA or external USB2 vs. external USB2.