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The First Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed

Posted by Zonk on from the that-is-a-lot-of-dvd-rips dept.

mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech has a review and benchmarks of the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB Hard Drive, which ushers in the terabyte age. It performs well on HDTach and PCMark benchmarks, though not as speedily as professional-grade drives. It could be just the ticket for digital media junkies. 'One of the first issues to note is that you may not see an actual one terabyte capacity on your system. First, the formatted capacity is always less than the raw space available on the drive. Directory information and formatting data always take up some space. Second, the hard drive industry's definition of a megabyte differs from the rest of the PC business. One megabyte of hard drive space is 1,000,000 bytes: 10^6 bytes. Operating systems calculate one megabyte as 2^20 bytes, or 1,048,576 bytes. Once installed and set up, Hitachi's 1TB hard drive offers up an actual formatted capacity of about 935GB, as measured by the OS. That's still a lot of space, by anyone's definition.'" Update: 05/17 21:52 GMT by Z : Adding '^s' missing from article.

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  1. Stop the Lies by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hard drive makers, stop the lies. Time to measure gigabytes like the rest of the industry counts them. If not now, how long before a 1GB DIMM is 1,000,000,000 bytes? Fire your marketing droids who insist that everyone buys their lies, and get honest with us. It ain't a TB until I can record an honest TB worth of data on it!

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  2. Re:eh? by cepler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your computer improperly reports disk space.

    http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

    Time to get with the 90's.

  3. Some hacker? by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No. Just please, leave.
    What the fuck is wrong with people? You just learn the metric system? Got a stick up your ass?

    Is there are problem with 4KB being an even multiple of a HD sector (512 bytes)? Is that A FUCKING PROBLEM FOR YOU?

    Oh wait, those of us who actually deal with these under-the-hood type issues actually HAVE PRETTY FUCKING GOOD REASONS for kilobyte to be different than kilobaud. You can go back to playing with photoshop and jerking off onto your blog, where you'll complain about god knows what else, you fucking technocrati.

    KILO IS AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE MEASURE FROM LATIN!
    GET OVER YOURSELF

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