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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."
Well, when you can only slam 4kb of data into the drive bus at any one time, it doesn't require a whole lot of cache to keep up.
Only 1TB? What about all my HD porn movies, they will never fit... (Divx re-encoded of course, else it hardly works in Vistasuck)
Seriously though, it is a lot of drive space. It is a great achievement, albeit a bit slow since we are promised large storage dvds/blue rays/hd dvds/hdd's all the time!
However right now I have 6 hdd's which totally make up for 1.6TB. 2 of these disks would cover those. Darn where is my money stash.
Formatting has nothing to do with it. Neither does swap space or file system overhead, or anything else like that. The "lost" space isn't lost to anything like that. The 1000 vs 1024 math is the only culprit. The fact that their drive has the capability to store 1 trillion bytes doesn't make it a 1 terabyte drive. When they release a drive that can store 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, *then* they have a terabyte drive. A trillion bytes is only 931.3GB, period.
Retarded Article! EVeryone knows a KILOBYTE = 1024 bytes! not 1000.
SI has no dominion over the burgeoning world of computer jargon which moves at a fast pace and is based on base-2 not base-10
A kilobyte is and shall always be 1024 bytes.
Megabyte and Gigabyte and Terabyte fall in line under base-2 as well.
If the author does not liek it, then HE can rename his own words into kibibyte kibblebyte kissybyte krappybyte or whatver he wants but kilobyte and gogabyte are frozena dn will always mean base-2
that suffix word (BYTE) is a base-2 item.
he is a retard and his rant is unwelcome.
The drive is not the first terabyte drive
Its the first 931 gigabyte drive.
It's the marketing people that have it wrong. We've been using the 1024 base for measurement in binary "power of 2" systems long before all this. Computer RAM and ROM chips are still measured this way. Along comes the marketing people who tried to apply the 1000 base to what had been the 1024 base. And that was just so they could puff and inflate their marketing and their egos. Then someone comes along with a name change scheme? Unfortunately, also along comes a world of dumb consumers who either need to use 1000 because their feeble minds cannot grok 1024, or can't handle different base systems.
If hard drives and other storage devices like flash keys become marketed with the new terms for base 1024, then I might go along with it. Until then, I'm really using a 3.822 GB SanDisk Cruzer that falsely claims to be 4.0 GB.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars