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Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-almost-big-enough dept.

EconolineCrush writes "The Tech Report has posted an in-depth review of Hitachi's half-terabyte Deskstar 7K500, the largest hard drive available on the market. The drive is compared with five of the latest drives from Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital, so the review serves as a good round-up of the fastest Serial ATA drives on the market. Performance testing is quite extensive, covering desktop applications, load times, file copy tests, multi-user workloads, disk-intensive multitasking, and even noise levels and power consumption."

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  1. Just so you know by Seth+Finklestein · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't think any of you know this, but this is the same Deskstar line that IBM sold to try and save face. I personally lost seven hard drives due to the poor manufacturing quality. Those hard drives contained data that was invaluable to me.

    I strongly urge all of Slashdot to boycott Hitachi and its so-called "DeathStar" drives.

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  2. Re:Size soon not being an issue by angle_slam · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'll give you home video enthusiasts, up to a point. But I was emphasising everyday users, not any specialty professions such as photographers or videographers.

    I agree with you about photographers. But not about video. It's not just videographers who need space. It's anyone with a miniDV camera. Each tape is 13GB of space. When you edit, you need scratch space on the hard drive to work. It's easy to fill up 500 GB with video.

    Personally, I have 500 GB (a 200 and a 300). While I have an abnormally large music collection (115GB), I only have about 100 GB free on the hard drive. So it was pretty easy for me to have 250+GB of video. (Basically anyone with a kid and a video camera fills up tapes quickly).

  3. Re:Quality by Linker3000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I buy two very similar capacity units from two different manufacturers (ie: Seagate + Western Digital) so I don't get caught out by a manufacturing defect - that happened many years ago to a company for which I was doing some freelance work - two hard disks in their server's RAID 5 array had drive motor bearing failures within about 15 minutes of each other!

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