Testseek.com have collected 17 expert reviews of the HGST / WD 3.5 inch Deskstar 5K4000 SATA600 HDS5C40-ALE Series and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for HGST / WD 3.5 inch Deskstar 5K4000 SATA600 HDS5C40-ALE Series.
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Published: 2012-04-03, Author: Andrew , review by: techworld.com
Hitachi’s Deskstar 5K4000 is not the fastest hard disk on the planet. But, along with its speedy sister disk the 7K4000, it is the largest. Performance nonetheless is very good for a ‘low power’ slower spinning desktop drive, very comparable to the fu...
Largest capacity hard drive on the market, Strong performance with mid 120MB/s read/write sequential transfer speeds, No power increase for the bigger capacity
High 4K seek latency
Eco-friendly storage still has big potential, especially as users find new and creative ways to give bulk storage more pep with caching and NAS systems grow into the home. Hitachi leverages tremendous depth of experience with the Deskstar 5K4000 to delive...
There aren't too many products on the market in the 4TB capacity size. We suspect the mass flooding in Thailand has something to do with this. As far as we can tell only Hitachi and Seagate have 4TB models. Western Digital is still 4TB-less and as fo...
Abstract: SSDs are of course the hippest and fastest form of storage, but if you want lots of storage capacity without breaking the bank, you're still relegated to the familiar realm of the hard disk. There's still some choice out there in this category, and pric...
Abstract: It's not all about SSDs when it comes to storage these days. 'Traditional' hard drives are still very much alive as well. Hitachi proves this by introducing the first disks with a capacity of 4 TB. Hardware.Info extensively tested two of them to see how...
Abstract: Hitachi recently started shipping a pair of 4 TB hard drives. We can see that they're pretty expensive, but how do they compare to existing 3 TB models in other ways? It’s time for a comprehensive overview of today's high-capacity hard drive offerings....
Hitachi’s Deskstar 5K4000 is not the fastest hard disk on the planet. But, along with its speedy sister disk the 7K4000, it is the largest. Performance nonetheless is very good for a ‘low-power’ slower spinning desktop drive, very comparable to the ful...
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Published: 2012-08-27, Author: Christian , review by: tecchannel.de
Die Deskstar 5K4000 von Hitachi entpuppt sich als unauffällige und trotzdem flinke Festplatte. Unauffällig, weil das Laufwerk selbst bei Zugriffen mit 0,4 Sone angenehm leise arbeitet und dabei auch die Hitzentwicklung sehr unkritisch bleibt. Obwohl die s...
