Published on 04/16/2008
Hailed as an “Enterprise” hard drive, this type of HDD is indeed very fast (and noisy). That is why enthusiast consumers use them to build high-end gaming rigs or video-processing computers. Anyhow, Hitachi claims that the Ultrastar 15K450 offers up to 30% performance improvement over older models. The other good news is that it has lower power requirements.