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

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Performance Tests and Conclusive Thoughts

Performance Tests

CrystalMark
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Everest Disk Benchmark
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HD Tach
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HD Tune
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PCMark2005
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PCMark Vantage
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Conclusive Thoughts

What we have here is a decent performance 2.5'' HDD from Hitachi, placed in a nice looking enclosure, with USB 2.0 interface. Looking at the test results we can clearly see that the HDD maxes out the USB 2.0 transfer rate.

This drive from Hitachi is not meant to be used as an external drive for everyday usage, but for occasional data archiving or for moving large quantities of data from one computer to another.

The PortableDrive tends to become a little hot if it is used intensively, when sitting on the table, because it does not have any ventilation; there are solutions for that, like placing it on computer cases that have large fans on top ( see Cooler Master HAF922, ATCS 840 ). But overall these smaller laptop HDDs won’t easily overheat, even when placed in a small enclosure.

The integrated backup software is really easy to use and even inexperienced people can use it.

Priced at ~$75 the 500Gb Portable Drive from lands in the middle of the pack among external storage solutions from competitors like Lacie, Seagate, Western Digital and others, so price/size wise it’s certainly a valid option if you’re looking for a compact external HDD.

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