Hitachi/HGST

The Deskstar P7K500 was released alongside the CinemaStar P7K500 in October 2007. The lowly HDP725016GLA380 was the smallest capacity available at only 160GB, with this particular model being a Deskstar variant. According to the datasheet provided by Hitachi, these fall under the Gemini family of drive designs, which is fortunately hinted at on the drive ... Read More

An old server drive of mine. These are exceedingly well built and have a particularly high standard of reliability, at least in my personal experiences with them. This was in the era of power supply manufacturers slowly switching to having SATA power connectors as standard, as opposed to simply molex. It was quite common to ... Read More

HGST were my go-to for many years, up until they were completely dissolved into Western Digital. I purchased this drive brand new back in 2013 to use with my main rig. This was when the SSD/HDD combo was the norm. Of course, this is still fairly relevant today, but much less so in high end rigs. ... Read More