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

Re:cue the standard HD review flames

[bennomatic]

I'm just trying to imagine a beowolf cluster of these puppies!

Are you trolling or stupid?

[imsabbel]

a) you are the last person on the world that hasnt yet noticed the difference between 10^9 and 2^12

b) Your cluster size will be the same with 500GB as it would be with 50GB...

But as you dont even mention the cluster size (only that its HUUUUGE!!11), i guess you should just take a tour in google and remove your ignorance.

Re:full article mirror & comment

[robertjw]

Shame. It's a good thing I was able to help instead. :P

Figured there would be a Windows (l)user out there that would chime in with a workaround. ;)