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Terabyte Hard Drive Put To the Test

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Test? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, my porn collection, THAT is what would put this drive to the test.

    1. Re:Test? by Hydryad · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why am I not surprised at all that porn is the third word in the comments about a terabyte hard drive. Pushing forward innovation since the dawn of time, hot steamy sex.

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    2. Re:Test? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Pushing forward.... and back... and forward.... and back....

  2. kanashhk shhk shhk by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ge ge ge kanashhk shhk shhk fzzke kek shhk shhk

    I love the sound of head crashes in the morning. Smells like... a coffee break.

  3. RAID 5 Please by FF8Jake · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not losing my 1.5TB of porn to a single Hitachi Deathstar.

    1. Re:RAID 5 Please by Applekid · · Score: 5, Funny

      Only 1.5 TB of porn ? That's like what, 350 DVDs worth ? But how would we hide 350 DVDs from our parents?
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  4. Re:Data loss by ipooptoomuch · · Score: 5, Funny

    500GB of data loss?!? I CRIED for a half hour over a filled 160GB drive after it got killed by an electrical storm. Even though it wasn't technically covered under warranty, the fine folks at best buy still took it back after I said a defective flux capacitor on the drive started it on fire.

  5. Re:Fills up too fast anyways by joke_dst · · Score: 5, Funny

    No matter how big a hard drive gets it still only has two states: new and full.

  6. Re:Data loss by MrNaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    You really, really need to buy a lottery ticket.

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