• Deskstar 7K500 wins "Best Product 2006" (PC Achats Magazine, France, Dec.2005)
  
  
• Deskstar 7K500 wins PC Entusiasts' Choice Award (PC Enthusiast U.S., Oct./Nov. 2005)
  
  
• Hitachi 7K500 wins Editor's Choice Award: Not Only Fast but Ultra Large Capacity (PC DIY, Taiwan, Region of China - August, 2005)
  
  
• Hitachi Deskstar 7K500 wins Ezone Choice Award, Ezone, August, 2005 (Hong Kong)
  
  
• Deskstar 7K500 wins "Gold Award," Hardware Info,
  July, 2005 (Holland)
  
  
• Deskstar 7K500 wins Maximum PC's "Kick Ass" Award, Maximum PC Magazine,
  July, 2005
  
  

• Deskstar T7K250 "Best Test Award" - Hardware Magazine, 01/06 (Norway)
  
  
• Desktar T7K250 "New King of Storage" - Premium Grade Award - Custom PC Magazine, 12/05 (UK)
  
  
• Deskstar T7K250 wins "Editor's Choice Award," Firingsquad, July 2005
  
  
• Deskstar T7K250 wins Price / Performance award in PC Games Hardware, July 7, 2005
  
  
• Deskstar 7K500 "Editor's Choice Award," PC Market, June 2005, (Hong Kong)
  
  
• Deskstar 7K250 в"Uber Pick Award" from Bens Custom Cases, 6/2005
  
  
• Deskstar T7K250 "Ezone Choice Award," Ezone, May 2005 (Hong Kong)
  
  
• Deskstar T7K250 "Recommended Product," Cluboverclocker, 5/2005
  
  
• China Computer Education Papers - 2004 Best Product (China)
  
  
• PC Online - 2004 Editor's Choice Product - Deskstar 7K400 (China)
  
  
• China Information World - 2004 Editor's Choice (China)
  
  
• CHIP - 2004 Reader's Choice (China)
  
  
• SP - 2004 Editor's Choice (China)
  
  
• Micro Computer - 2004 Brand of Reader's Choice (China)
  
  
• Computer Business Information (CBI) - 2004 Family Computer Most Challang Product - Deskstar 7K250 (China)
  
  
• Hitachi HDDs win Editor's Choice - Best Performance Award, Techtree.com, (India), 14 February, 2005
  
  "It's consistent performance, wide range and long list of features left the field far behind. Proof that when it comes to storage solutions, you can safely bet your business on Hitachi."

Deskstar 7K400

• Deskstar 7K400 "Reviewer's Choice" award by Toxico PC, 5/2005 (Argentina)
  
  
• Deskstar 7K400 Named "Most Innovative Product," HardwareZone, March 2005 (Singapore)
  
  
• Computer Bild-2, 2005 Winner of the Test Award Computerbild Spiele, (German) January, 2005
  
  
• Readers Choice Awards 2004 Asia Computer Weekly, 6-12 December, 2004
  
  
• Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 Gold Award (HWM Thailand, 9/2004)
  
  
• Gold Award, Hardware Magazine, Singapore, June, 2004
  
  400 GB of unadulterated storage.
  
  
• Annual World Class Awards "Best of 2004", PC World, July, 2004
  
  The 7200-rpm Deskstar 7K400 provides 400GB of storage and some of the fastest performance we've seen in a desktop drive.
  
  
• Hardware Hammer Award, Computerbase.de (Germany), May, 2004
  
  The 7K400 has earned the Hardware Hammer Award from the German online magazine Computerbase.de.
  
  
• Maximum PC's "Kick Ass" Award, Maximum PC Magazine, May, 2004
  
  "If you need a vast amount of fast drive storage for HDTV, video editing, network backup, or other storage-hungry applications, then the Deskstar 7K400 deserves a close look."
  
  
• 4.5 out of 5 stars  - Most Innovative Product Award, Hardware Zone, 21 April, 2004
  
  "The Deskstar 7K400 is not just your everyday desktop drive, but it has been designed with more than just the PC in mind. Targeting the consumer electronics market, the Deskstar 7K400 features what is known as the ATA Streaming Feature Set which Hitachi has helped developed for use in AV storage applications (such as digital video recorders, video editing or video streaming servers). The Streaming Feature Set includes five different components...."

Deskstar 7K250

• Computer Bild-2, 2005, Price Performance Winner Award Computerbild Spiele, (German) January, 2005
  
  
• Deskstar 7K250 SATA Editor's Choice, AMD Zone, Sept, 2004
  
  
• Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 PC Plus Award, PC Plus, Sept, 2004
  
  
• 80GB/platter SATA HDD Shootout, Hardware Zone, 5 March, 2004
  
  

  “When it comes to seek performance, we cannot deny that Hitachi's Deskstar 7K250 is currently the fastest performer. Scoring seek times below the 13ms mark, the Deskstar 7K250 would be an ideal choice for users wanting quick access to their applications and data, even with light and moderate fragmentation.”

  “When it comes to performance in the desktop environment, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 was once again the clear winner. It had good scores for Business Disk Winmark, as well as very enticing results with IOmeter as well.”

  “In the end, we've decided to give the WINNER award to Hitachi for its excellent overall performance and better than average service. While some users are still avoiding Hitachi due to IBM's shoddy past, they have pretty much redeemed themselves with great performance and good RMA policy.”

• 4.5 Stars, Hardware Zone, 3 March, 2004
  
  

  "Though Hitachi was the slowest hard disk manufacturer to introduce their 7200RPM 80GB per platter model, their drive's exceptional seek performance was really worth the wait. In all of the tests, the Deskstar 7K250 came out tops in the access time department – flattening out each and every competitor."

  "All in all, we believe that the new Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 will make a good storage option for high performance desktops targeted at either the office or home user. The large 250GB storage space would easily satisfy the needs of the storage hungry user while its fast seek access will enhance the user's computing experience with lightning speed response."

  "Using Winbench 99 v2.0, we found the Deskstar 7K250 to be an attractive all-round performer with scores taking the top positions in most test iterations."

• Gold Award – "The Best HDD Among the Last 22 Models", Nikkei WinPC Magazine (Japan), February 2004
  
  

  The Deskstar 7K250 earned the Gold Medal when pitted against competitive drives, including the Samsung SpinPoint P80 (silver medal) and the Western Digital Raptor (bronze medal).

  "Excellent design balance for performance, acoustics and temperature."
  
  
• "Winner of Test" and "Price/Performance" Awards, Computer Bild (Germany), January 2004
  
  "When you need high capacity and fast performance, the Deskstar 7K250 250GB from Hitachi is the first choice. In the 120GB class, the Deskstar 7K250 offers high performance with low noise. Because of the low price the drive receives the Price/Performance award."
  
  "Advantages Deskstar 7K250: high capacity, high performance, low noise, 3-year warranty, Disadvantages: none."
  
  
• Best in Test – Macup Magazine (Germany), January 2004
  

  Drives tested: Deskstar 7K250 ATA, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9, Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, Western Digital Caviar 1200BB and Western Digital 1200JB.

  "The fastest hard disk drive of this test is the 120GB version of the Deskstar 7K250 from Hitachi."

  "In our вЂpractice’ practice’ ˜practice’ benchmark the HDD from Hitachi is by far the best. With a data transfer rate of 10.3 MB/s the drive reaches a new record at duplicating small files and is 53% faster than the model from Maxtor. Big files are copied with a speed of 19.9 MB/s, 10% faster than the model

  "Because the Hitachi drive is also modest at the proportion price/GB, the winner of the logo is well earned."

• Best in Test; 6 Mice; 1st Place – Macwelt (Germany), January 2004
  

  Drives tested: Deskstar 7K250 SATA., Samsung Spinpoint 1614C, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9, Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, Western Digital Caviar 2500JD.

  "High-End hard disk drive with excellent transfer rates."

  "Advantages: High Speed, short seek time, very low noise."

Deskstar 7K80

• Deskstar 7K80 - Awarded "Best Value" by CHIP Magazine, September, 2005, (India)
  
  "This 80GB SATA 2 hard drive from Hitachi proved to be an excellent performance for the value segment. ... The build quality of the 7K80 is excellent for an 80GB entry level drive. Even though the 7K80 is a standard 3.5inch hard drive, it's a tad sleeker than the rest of the lot, making it easy to handle while inserting into the drive bay. The looks, specifications and features definitely made the 7K80 a special drive but it scored the home run with its performance...."