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PowerBook 5400RPM HD: Hitachi VS Toshiba
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Hi,
I need a new HD for my PowerBook 17" 1.5Ghz.
I can choose between a Toshiba MK8026GAX and an Hitachi HTS548080M9AT00.
They are very similar (5400RPM and 80GB), but the Toshiba has 16MB of cache while the Hitachi has 'only' 8MB.
Does anyone know a performance comparison?
Which one is quiter and more reliable?
Thanks.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: missing
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I installed the Hitachi Travelstar 80GB/5,400/8 MB (replaced an IBM Travelstar 40GB/5400/8MB.
Got a 10% speed bump in Xbench 1.0b3 (from 66 to 74, this is a rev.A TiPB 400MHz/1 GB). This is running the same Xbench version in Panther.
The system runs better now, no doubts.
I like Hitachi (old IBM).
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-original iMac, TiPB 400, Cube, Macbook (black), iMac 24ยจ, plus the original iPod and a black nano 4GB-
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Socorro, NM
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If I could I would go with a seagate hard drive; they cost a bit more, but they are considered to be to be more reliable and they do have a 5 year warranty...
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-King Rat
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Newport Beach, CA
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I just replaced my stock hard drive which made so much noise, with the exact Hitachi HTS548080M9AT00. It is very quiet. I turned the stock drive into an external backup drive.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7), 1.6 GHz, Core i5, 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3, 128 GB SSD, 24" LED ACD, 1TB Time Capsule (late 2009), IOS4 ATV, 16GB iPhone 4
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