http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/ Engadget Comments for Hitachi breaks 1TB hard drive barrier with 7K1000 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/
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and that's when you realize this is a Terrorbyte drive...]]>Jan 5th 2007 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 2:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/
As you fill your drive the read/write times dwindle at a rate based on percentage used. This means that at 300GB utilized, a 1TB HDD @7200RPM (30% used) drive will read/write considerably faster than 400GB HDD @ 10,000RPM (75% used). Not to mention the additional cost and lowered overall capacity.

I'm curious about this specialized DVR drive. If Hitatchi can significantly increase the sustained read/write (especially the reads) then they may have something here.

BTW, $400 seems very aggressive for this drive.]]>Jan 5th 2007 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/
Otherwise please stop spreading FUD.]]>Jan 5th 2007 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/
but at $400, that drive is actually pretty cheap at $0.39 per gb.]]>Jan 5th 2007 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Oct 8th 2007 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 3:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/
When will these go to sale?]]>Jan 5th 2007 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/
Its defragging and checkdisk that I would be more worried about.

At this size though, I don't think theres any way under the earth that I could buy one. I would HAVE to buy 2 and raid them so there was no chance of loosing my data. ]]>Jan 5th 2007 5:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 5:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/
Also...
There is a lot of funky marketing when it comes to HDDs. Ever notice that your drive is never as big as it states? That is because the OS uses Base-2 to determine the capacity, while the HDD manufacture used Base-10. That same 1TB drive will only be listed as having 953,000GB. The drive appears to lose nearly 50GB off the original size, but it really doesn't. It's all marketing. I'm not a fan of but they all do it.

RAM manufactures don't do this, and I don't know of any other group that does.]]>Jan 5th 2007 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/
How the percentage of used space on a drive affects its speed depends on the file system in place. The old FAT/FAT32 systems used by DOS and Windows 3.1/95/98 used a variable-size "table of contents" to store information about where files were located, so more used capacity meant a larger table, which would take longer for the operating system to search through when a file was requested.

The newer NTFS file system in Windows XP utilizes a static table (MFT) which has a permanent set size; the table acts as a kind of micro-representation of the entire disk, so the OS can always easily find what it's looking for in the MFT. In that case, more or less used capacity still means the same size MFT either way, and therefore, the same amount of time to find files.

More space consumed can often mean more programs installed or temp files built up, which will bog down an OS and slow everything down; but percentage of used space itself doesn't have much if any effect on throughput or seek times, at the OS or the disk access levels.]]>Jan 5th 2007 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/01/zfs_overview_from_sun.html].

The only thing I would like in such a box is a SATA II interface and some power-up logic that staggers the individual drive spin-ups, so as to not present a big power spike upon power-on. Something where I could just pop in new drives as my video library fills up the current drives, with the software painlessly managing the data redundancy and error detection and correction.


W00t!]]>Jan 5th 2007 6:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/

...maybe /shrug]]>Jan 5th 2007 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 5th 2007 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.kaleidescape.com/products/
I've been waiting for the 1TB drives to debut before starting on this project. I figure I'll need about 6TB storage total.]]>Jan 5th 2007 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 7th 2007 6:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Kaleidescape is nice, but not worth the dough for us nerds. Putting the parts together is easy. It's the software that can cause pain.

-Make sure you have a gigabit ethernet network. Wireless won't cut the mustard when streaming video.
-Build a half decent computer. Make sure you have a big case and a burly power supply.
-Buy a RAID card. I prefer Areca cards with PCI-Express interface.
-Install Server Edition if you want > 2TB partition(s).
-Install software. You can get as fancy as you want depending on your preferences.

Other Options: Check out Lime Technology and Enfrant ReadyNAS for simpler plug and play storage solutions.]]>Jan 10th 2007 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/]]>Jan 5th 2007 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 6th 2007 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Jan 12th 2007 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Feb 8th 2007 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/If I need more space I could just buy myself a eksternal HDD with 2TB(Yes it does exists, but it is several HDD in one I think). I buy myself a server with 10 slots and stuff them with 1TB each = 10TB I probebly have to wait another 2 years for a server that supports that.

A couple of question I ask myself is:
1.Do I need a pile of ice to place my server inside (or the HDD)?
2.Why do I have to wait 2 years for 1TB HDD when I can buy 750GB HDD today?
3.Do I need a super special server?
4.Did I register with somewhere to post this?
5.Why did I post this?
6.Why do I ask this silly questions?
I'm not making anymore sence so I quit writing now.
Have a nice day everyone :D]]>Mar 9th 2007 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/Mar 17th 2007 10:14AM