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."

Comments

Re:tebi? shut up. 1 terabyte drive still NOT here

[gbjbaanb]

A kilobyte will always be 1024 bytes ... and a kilometre will always be 1024 centimetres?

Re:RAID 6 Please

[Anonymous Coward]

Why waste money on hardware raid-6 when Linux-MD is safer and faster?

Blahaha

[Anonymous Coward]

"OS loading times"? "Game loading times"? Wow, what incompentet, generalizing, illogical nonsense. They should never put a humanitarian to do the job of a technician. If the same guy were to do a review of furnite I guess he'd compare comfort of a sofa in terms of what color cloth was used, or the height of the salesperson flogging the furniture.

Author of article, please resign, for the good of techreview.com and its readers.