Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed

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."

Comments

Do the average person NEED that big a drive?

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From the article: Today, hard drives are measured in hundreds of gigabytes. Soon it may be terabytes, and we'll look back on the gigabyte wondering how we ever got along with so little storage.

I highly doubt there will come a day where the average user NEEDS 500 gig... really the only things that take up a lot of space are music and video.

While it would be cool to have a 500 gig hard drive... that's a LOT of information to lose if the hard drive ever crashes. I'll stick with more, smaller drives, if I ever need 500 gig...