Terabyte Hard Drive Put To the Test

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday August 12, 2007 @08:15PM from the where-did-the-missing-69-gigs-go dept.

EconolineCrush writes "As a technical milestone, Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive is undeniably impressive. The drive is the first to pack a trillion bytes into a standard 3.5" form factor, and while some may argue the merits of tebi versus tera, that's still an astounding accomplishment. Hitachi also outfitted the drive with 32MB of cache—double what you get with standard desktop drives—making this latest Deskstar a leader in both cache size and total capacity. That looks like a great formula for success on paper, but how does it pan out in the real world? The Tech Report has tested the 7K1000's performance, noise levels, and power consumption against 18 other drives to find out, with surprising results."

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Re:tebi? shut up. 1 terabyte drive still NOT here by Jherek+Carnelian · 2007-08-13 11:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This marketing BS always pisses me off. For years and years and years we've used 1024 in the computer world, since it's a power of 2, and computers deal with powers of 2. A 931GB drive is NOT a 1TB drive. And we don't need new stupid labels like tebi, we just need storage manufacturers to stop being retards. Yeah! And I'm really pissed off that my Gigabit-Ethernet card is not a real gigabit either, that's a whole 73,741,824bps that I'm not getting. And my 3GHz cpu is a rip too, it's missing a massivefreaking 221,225,472Hz, what I gotta overclock my cpu to get the advertised performance?

Stupid retards!