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Hitachi 500Gb Portable Drive External USB 2.0 HDD Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2010-06-02

Hitachi has a nice looking product line-up of external 2.5 inch drives, we take a look at their 500Gb Portable Drive which comes with a fancy Carbon Fibre finish. Is it up to the task of backing up our vital data? Let us find out

Test Setup & Backup Software

Test Setup

Stefan's Test Setup



CPU	Core i7 920 @ 3.2Ghz
Cooling	Cogage True Spirit
Mainboard	Asrock X58 Extreme
Memory	G.Skill F3-12800CL8T-6GBPI PI Series
VGA	ATI Radeon HD 5830
Other	Power Supply : Antec True Power New 750W HDD : Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10

Hitachi Included Software

The HDD comes preloaded with a Hitachi intro guide; here we can learn about how to format the drive for different OSes:

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In the backup section, we get to install a bundled application and to read some advices regarding it:

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Some more information we will obtain by navigating to the FAQ section:

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The backup application is made by ArcSoft and we can save up our entire system only with a couple of clicks:

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To avoid any slowdowns, I have used an i7 test machine. To extract more information regarding the HDD, the Everest Ultimate Edition was used:

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The drive comes formatted FAT32 and the software bundled takes up about 133MB from its total free space:

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