Read full Hitachi 0S03339 Product reviews
Ratings
Category: Personal Computers
Brand: Hitachi
Model: 0S03339
Availability: Product availability may differ by country. In Stock (USA)
List Price :
Discount:
Hitachi 0S03339 Review
Hitachi 0S03339 Review by Eric Hoddenbagh (Urbandale, IA USA)
I purchased this drive to replace a 150GB Hitachi drive in my MacBookPro. As soon as my MBP was out of warranty I wanted to upgrade since the original drive was full and was slowing me down. The replacement was super easy following the directions on FixYa.
The drive has made a huge difference in my MBP. Startup is faster, programs load faster, plus I have ample storage now. The 7,200 RPM makes a huge difference over the original drive. The new drive is quiet and works like expected.
Hitachi 0S03339 Review by Abester (USA)
The internal Seagate 160GB 7200rpm HDD in my late 2007 / early 2008 MacBook Pro 15" bit the dust in February 2011. It was acting flakey the prior week so I became much more diligent at doing my SuperDuper backups daily to my external Firewire disk. Google SuperDuper if you need more info.
I initially replaced the failed Seagate drive in my MacBook Pro with a 5400rpm 500GB Western Digital Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 2.5 Inch, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD5000BEVT and although it worked OK, the WD drive seemed slow to respond at times when clicking on a program icon or even an email within my Thunderbird email client. I would often get the Mac spinning color wheel before a program would open. I doubt that this was due to the rpm speed differences between the drives. I'm not certain what was going on with the Western Digital Scorpio Blue drive but I am inclined to believe that there may be an aggressive power saving feature embedded and enabled in it's firmware causing it to spin down and stop frequently. I cannot verify this. Not having the software tools to check or disable it (if in fact that was the cause), I opted instead to try the Hitachi 0S02858 disk. I'm glad I did. It's so much better in this application.
The Hitachi disk responds immediately upon clicking a program icon or opening a document, reading an email, etc. No more waiting on that spinning color wheel before the disk responds. The Hitachi is also faster than the WD at opening and loading the application (excel spread sheets, word processing docs, PDF files, etc.) as it should be at 7200rpm vs 5400rpm. But again the biggest improvement is in it's initial responsiveness.
The Hitachi disk is also quiet. I can feel a very slight bit of vibration when I place my hand over the area where the disk is installed but this is not out of the ordinary and it's comparable to the slight vibration I felt with the original disk that was in my MacBook Pro.
My basic disk replacement steps:
Open the MacBook Pro. There are several pictures and video clips online that show you exactly how to do this. All you need is a T6 torx tool and a #00 Philips screw driver.
- Swap out the bad 2.5" SATA disk for a new one and reassemble the MacBook Pro.
- Boot from your external backup disk. You do have a recent bootable backup, don't you? I use SuperDuper to create my bootable backup but there are other popular programs. BTW, an external Firewire disk is so much faster than USB 2.0 but USB 2.0 will work if that's all you have.
- Once booted and logged in on your external disk, the Mac will alert you that you have an uninitialized disk in the system. It will ask if you want to initialize it. If you don't get this alert just run the Mac's Disk Utility to partition your new disk as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".
- Now use SuperDuper (or your other favorite similar program) to re-clone your new internal disk with the contents from your external backup (which you are presently booted from). Depending on how much stuff you have, and if you're running USB or Firewire, this may take 20 to 30 minutes or so to well over an hour.
- Now boot normally from your internal disk.
- Spotlight may begin to reindex your files but once it's done everything should be back to normal.
Additional notes: Disk Utility reports this Hitachi disk as "Hitachi HTS725050A9A364 Media" which is consistent with what other folks here have mentioned. I can't speak to the reliability of the Hitachi disk as I haven't had it long but I am extremely happy with it's performance. It is quiet and contrary to other reports (possibly on Windows), I'm not hearing any odd clicking, calibrations, or other noises.
Hitachi 0S03339 Review by Arun K Patra
This is a good drive and meets parameters as advertised. However users who want to use it with the 13" mid 2010 Macbook Pro, please be warned that this drive is not supported by Lion. Apple has still not allowed a 7200 RPM 3.0 GBps drive for the 13". Also the auto power down mode will not work. Your 13" Macbook pro (mid 2010) will thus have the hard disk spinning perpetually. You can stop the hard disk to spin only when you shut down the machine. This will drain your otherwise 7-9 hour worth of battery to 3-4 hours. I went ahead and changed mine to the 5400 RMP drive that came with my Macbook Pro.
There's nothing wrong with the drive - just that its not meant for the Macbook Pro 13" mid 2010 Unibody. Before you buy this, confirm with Apple that the machine where you are going to use this actually supports this FULLY!
More Reviews...
Hitachi Travelstar 2.5-Inch 750 GB 7200 RPM SATA II 16 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive - 0S03339 [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging]:: Features
- Low power consumption
- Advanced Format, industry standard 4K sector size
- 750GB Capacity
- 3 Year Factory Warranty
- 512 byte emulation (512e)
- 7200 RPM high-performance HDD
- Item Dimensions: 3 x 4 x 0 inches; 0 pounds
- Brand: Hitachi
- Model: 0S03339
- Product Type: Personal Computers
Hitachi 0S03339:Limited time only!
Tags : Best Price Hitachi Travelstar 2.5-Inch 750 GB 7200 RPM SATA II 16 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive - 0S03339 [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging], Best Buy Hitachi Travelstar 2.5-Inch 750 GB 7200 RPM SATA II 16 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive - 0S03339 [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging] Lowest Price, Hitachi 0S03339 On Sale, Hitachi Travelstar 2.5-Inch 750 GB 7200 RPM SATA II 16 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive - 0S03339 [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging] Review, Great Deals Hitachi Travelstar 2.5-Inch 750 GB 7200 RPM SATA II 16 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive - 0S03339 [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging], Cheap Hitachi 0S03339. See also:
Corsair CMPSU-550VX Best price!
Logitech 920-001727 Review
Asus XONAR_XENSE On Sale!
HP NY428AA#ABA Great Offer!
PC Power & Cooling PPCMK2S650 Best deals!
Acer AS5810TZ-4274 Reviews
Tripp Lite APS2012 Customer reviews
# Great Deal, Buy Acer AS5552-6838, Huge Discount !
Toshiba PA3595U-1BRS Product reviews
LaCie 301924 On Sale!
