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Terabyte Hard Drive Put To the Test
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."
"I would hate to loose that much data on one drive."
I would hate to loose that much data onto one drive.
I would hate to lose that much data from one drive.
That makes so much more sense!
How exactly do you loose (sic) data?
The same way you'd loose horses or loose the dogs of war. Well, figuratively, of course.
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.
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
Your horses and dogs of war too tight for you? Figuratively speaking?
You're suposed to cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.
Are these drives belt-driven?
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Well what would people store on a tb hardy anyway? RESEARCH PAPERS? x-D
It might be large enough to store a year of /. dupes. ;-)
If J.K.R wrote Windows: Puteulanus fenestra mortalis!
Pron is directly related to moores law.
But who cares about that! I have MOD points and have also finished Harry Potter so I can finally browse at -1 again!
And what is the first thread I read about? Terabytes of pr0n. Why am I not surprised?
forgive me for using an old meme, but: w00t!
monk.e.boy
Open source, flash charts
These pretzels are making me thirsty!
Look how stupid gbjbaanb (229885) is.
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.
Just remember, no matter what else, one still "unleashes the beast"
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