The Hitachi Deskstar 180GXP continues the award-winning tradition of the Deskstar family. This family of drives incorporates both new and proven technologies to boost system performance. The Deskstar 180GXP provides the capacity and performance required to handle a wide range of advanced desktop and audio/video applications.
 
Hitachi has standardized features in their desktop drives to supply lower acoustics, faster transfer rates and low-power utilization to make the Deskstar 180GXP drive ideal for non-PC, high-performance computing requirements.
 
The superior areal density combines with the faster processor and streamlined cache buffer to enable award-winning performance for both the Deskstar hard drive and your system. Enhancements to the servo system and thermal monitor help to enable accurate data storage and retrieval.

Combined together, these technologies enable popular capacity points and are designed to increase reliability.