HGST's Travelstar 2.5-inch line of hard drives are models designed for use in laptops and small form factor desktops. This particular model features 7200RPM spin speed, 6Gbps transfer speeds and a 32MB cache. This combination provides desktop-class hard drive performance in a mobile footprint, and at a lower cost than much faster solid-state drives (SSDs).
Christopher Crader (Customer Support) Says:
As I write this on June 1, 2016, we don't have a lot of experience with the HGST Travelstar drives. We're carrying them in part because they're now a Western Digital brand, they've got great reviews elsewhere, and they give us another part option for our laptop hard drives. Everything about it looks good, so I'm pretty confident in this, but figured it'd be good to point out that these are still pretty new to us.
As I write this on June 1, 2016, we don't have a lot of experience with the HGST Travelstar drives. We're carrying them in part because they're now a Western Digital brand, they've got great reviews elsewhere, and they give us another part option for our laptop hard drives. Everything about it looks good, so I'm pretty confident in this, but figured it'd be good to point out that these are still pretty new to us.
Model: HGST HTS721010A9E630 / 0J22423
Specifications
| Capacity | 1000 GB |
| Rotation Speed | 7200 RPM |
| Interface | SATA 6 Gb/s |
| Cache Size | 32 MB |
| Form Factor | 2.5 Inch |
| Command Queueing | NCQ |
| Peak Power Draw | 5.5 Watts |
Performance | |
| Sequential Read (Peak) | 160.5 MB/s |
| Sequential Write (Peak) | 160.5 MB/s |
