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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. Re:Data loss by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The same way you'd loose horses or loose the dogs of war. Well, figuratively, of course.

  2. Re:32mb of cache... woohoo... by Datamonstar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Computers have been slowly turing (funny Frueidian typo, honest) into overly-equipped money sinks ever since hardware graphics acceleration became mainstream. I've recently been surprised by what all I can do with only 512MB of system memory and the Intel onboard graphics chipset.

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  3. Re:Data loss by ozmanjusri · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The same way you'd loose horses or loose the dogs of war.

    You're suposed to cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

    Are these drives belt-driven?

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  4. Re:Data loss by the_tsi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    These pretzels are making me thirsty!

  5. Re:Data loss by sumdumass · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I agree with the smart too. I don't know how many drives I have seen that died shortly after it started annoying people.

    As for you sig, you do realize that the movies More does is an exaggeration of the situation in almost all cases and sometimes it is made up or misplaced to mislead the impression you get from watching it. I haven't seen it yet but I have seen him doing promotional interviews. I guess this one isn't much different then the others. I have already been told some of the stuff in the interviews were flat out wrong by people living in the other countries that are supposed to be so much better.

  6. Re:Data loss by psicic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just remember, no matter what else, one still "unleashes the beast"

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  7. Re:Data loss by beaviz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I approached the guy after the sales associate left and said "listen, that guy has no clue what he's talking about. I is interlaced, P is progressive. On an "i" it's drawing 540 lines every frame, on a "p" it's drawing all 1080. Go with the "P" if you can afford the difference. It's worth it"
    And then his head exploded.