Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro 750GB Portable Hard Drive Review

Test System and Drive Info

Our test system was one we just finished building for lab and everyday use based on an Intel Z68 platform and the Sandy Bridge processor. All testing was done on a fresh install of Windows 7 professional 64-bit SP1 with all updates. All benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no other software programs running.

Intel Z68 Platform

Our Intel Z68 test platform used a Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 motherboard with an i7-2600k CPU that we flashed to the latest BIOS of F9 which was released on 10/12/2011. This motherboard uses a pair of Renesas D720200 chips for the rear panel USB 3.0 ports in conjunction with a pair of VLI VL810 hubs. The Renesas chips were running driver version 2.0.30.0 released on 11/19/2010. Our systems 16GB of Corsair Vengeance memory was set to 9-9-9-24 2T timings at 1600MHz.

Intel Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	i7-2600k	Click Here
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3	Click Here
Memory	16GB Corsair Vengence 1600	Click Here
Video Card	EVGA GTX 570 Classified	Click Here
OS Hard Drive	Patriot Pyro SSD 120GB	Click Here
2nd Hard Drive	PQI 235 SSD 256GB	N/A
3rd Hard Drive	WD Caviar Black 2TB	Click Here
Cooling	EK Supreme HF full nickel	Click Here
Power Supply	Corsair HX850W	Click Here
Operating System	Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit	Click Here

Detailed Information from HD Tune Pro 5.0:

To get a more detailed view of the drive we launched HD Tune Pro 5.0 and looked at the drive attributes. Notice the .5KB alignment for this NTFS file system which is much smaller than the typical 1MB and might not be optimal depending on your usage. This report also confirms the 7200 RPM specification for the installed 750GB drive in the Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro.

Detailed Information with CrystalDiskInfo 4.1.4:

This basically shows the same information but we know some readers prefer the Crystal Disk Info view.