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The First Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed
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.
My first hard disk was an external 5Mb box for Osborne 1, it was a HUGE step up from single sided 5.25" 92Kb single sided floppies.
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
When I mount, I prefer to yell "Hi Ho Silver", have it whinny, rear back, then gallop off in a cloud of dust...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!