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Hitachi's 500 GB DeskStar Monster

By Patrick Schmid published 14 July 2005

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Page 1: Hitachi's 500 GB DeskStar Monster
Page 2: DeskStar 7K500 Details
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Page 4: Data Transfer Performance, Continued
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