HGST Travelstar 7K1000 Review: A 1 TB Notebook Drive At 7200 RPM

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HGST's Travelstar 7K1000 is the first 1000 GB notebook drive we've tested with a 7200 RPM spindle speed. Is this hard disk a performance crown winner? We run our standard suite of benchmarks on it and compare the repository to 13 competitors.

Results: PCMark 7

The synthetic benchmark PCMark 7 places HGST's Travelstar 7K1000 HTS721010A9E630 in second place, behind the winning Seagate Momentus XT, which leads by almost 1000 points.

HGST's new drive only wins in a few components of this benchmark suite: video post-processing with Windows Movie Maker, and Windows Media Center performance. The Scorpio Black WD7500BPKT and Hitachi Travelstar 7K750 perform similarly to the Travelstar 7K1000.