Hitachi's 1TB Deskstar 7K1000 in the wild

There are many things in life you can't ever have enough of; money, gadgets and of course hard drive space. In the ever going space race Hitachi dropped the next big step in storage capacity last month. With this much storage space you can store 250,000 songs or 1,000 hours of SDTV or 250 hours of HDTV or 333,300 photos or even 520 iTunes music store movies, of course they don't have that many and if they did who could afford all of them?
More pics after the jump

[A @ Jan 10th 2007 9:24PM]

what number is 1,0000? And who else thinks ALL hard drives should the clear top?

[Noa @ Jan 10th 2007 4:44PM]

how much

[Crazylink @ Jan 10th 2007 4:45PM]

"250,000 songs or 1,0000 hours of SDTV or 250 hours of HDTV or 333,300 games or even 520 iTunes music store movies"
You've got the comma in the wrong place.

[slowerpig81 @ Jan 10th 2007 4:45PM]

what im really waiting for is a real big SSD. THAT would be nice, but 1 TB i a single drive is ok

[steve @ Jan 10th 2007 4:48PM]

"even 520 iTunes music store movies, of course they don't have that many and if they did who could afford all of them?"

the same people who will buy the iphone

[hp540 @ Jan 10th 2007 4:48PM]

i like the lensflare in the last picture.

[Rob @ Jan 10th 2007 5:21PM]

But will it blend?

[Andrew H. @ Jan 11th 2007 12:35AM]

that is the question

[DaLa @ Jan 10th 2007 4:57PM]

It says on the box, 333,300 photos, NOT GAMES. Fix your article.

[bnet504 @ Jan 10th 2007 4:57PM]

We're going to look at these pictures 20 years from now and laugh.

[Ignacio @ Jan 10th 2007 10:45PM]

I'm looking at them an laughing right now! :-D

I particularly like the box with the "NEW! HUGE Capacity = 1000 GB!" blurb. :-)

[SunJet @ Jan 10th 2007 5:20PM]

IM WONDERING WHAT THE CONVERSION 1TB WILL COME OUT TO IN REAL HARD DRIVE SPACE

[alex @ Jan 10th 2007 5:01PM]

Noa,

It's going to be round $400.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/

[TIMMAH! @ Jan 10th 2007 5:09PM]

What kind of access time does this thing have?

[alex @ Jan 10th 2007 5:16PM]

TIMMAH!

Average seek time - 8.5 ms

http://www.hgst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8027a91c954924ae4bda9f30eac4f0a0/

[ark_keeper @ Jan 10th 2007 7:44PM]

I wonder how heavy it is. 500gb ones have some heft to them.

[Billy @ Jan 10th 2007 6:05PM]

DAMN! That's insane - I hadnt' heard of this drive before. :)

SunJet - probably 900GB ? Stupid hard drive math.

[Rick @ Jan 10th 2007 7:05PM]

358 movies or 333,300 pictures ... I've always longed for this level of inaccurate precision.

This is what happens when engineers step into product marketing positions.

[CharlieX @ Jan 10th 2007 6:10PM]

Friggin awesome... Through a couple of these in some FW 800 chassis and backup all those HD files that take up room but you don't want to permanently delete.

[Rook @ Jan 10th 2007 7:07PM]

SunJet - You'd probably be looking more along the lines of 931GB but heck, that ain't all that bad is it? Now to find an external case to support it...

[Michael @ Jan 10th 2007 6:16PM]

Depends on what their base is. Probably bytes.

1 000 000 000 000 bytes = 0.909494702 terabytes
1 000 000 000 kilobytes = 0.931322575 terabytes
1 000 000 megabytes = 0.953674316 terabytes
1 000 gigabytes = 0.9765625 terabytes

[Craig Hughes @ Jan 10th 2007 6:23PM]

Sunjet:

931.32GB

[Rick Bowman @ Jan 10th 2007 6:49PM]

If you apply "P.L.O.H"* rule, then that's alot of freekin porn.

* Porno Law of Hardrive = .5 X total harddrive space = amount of porn files.

[roman.kim @ Jan 10th 2007 7:20PM]

This seems like a more appropriete box for it then:

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5451/hitachi1tbboxsmgf6.jpg

[DaLa @ Jan 10th 2007 7:58PM]

Matrixlinkin03, the article when newly posted did in fact read 'games' not 'photos'. But as a moron, I imagine you do not realize that Engadget does make mistakes and often fixes them. For you see, digital publications can be changed. Wait, maybe that's too complex for you, Matrixlinkin03, you are on notice!

[Gage @ Jan 10th 2007 11:30PM]

Am I the *only* person nervous about a hard drive manufacturer bringing back the dreaded "Death Star" line? =P

[RyanP @ Jan 11th 2007 6:24PM]

Just an FYI Hitachi has been using the deskstar line for awhile now as far as I can remeber atleast 2 years. And they are excellent drives..

[v_dogg @ Jan 11th 2007 12:02AM]

dude, that harddrive is like a rich rapper. he's got all those sexxxy cd's all up in his grill

[Mark @ Jan 10th 2007 11:49PM]

931 Gigs of movies from Bit Torrent, thousands of mp3 albums from eMule, a several games that take up 5GB+ a piece that I never have time to play, and of course porn.

Nice. Bring it on :)

[Mistoffeles @ Jan 11th 2007 12:18PM]

Now I just need to stuff several of these into a box and make a nice RAID5 configuration.

Maybe if "A" gets his way, I can forego the case and mount them on particle board for a combination functional storage array and sculpture.

[SporkRocker @ Jan 11th 2007 12:31PM]

WoW, this would piss me off even more with my weekly defrag and scanning. What are the read/write times too?

Think I may hold out for the seagate tb drive.

[Hijakk @ Jan 14th 2007 12:54AM]

Didn't a HDD manufacturer get sued on the whole "1,000,000 bytes = 1 MB"? Maybe they sucked it up and actually produced a drive that has an actual terabyte of space
[/wishful thinking]

[jambar @ Jan 20th 2007 2:05PM]

RyanP you're correct, IBM currently uses deskstar in their business pc's. They are pretty solid.

[Ripp @ Apr 4th 2007 5:59AM]

I've currently got a Deskstar, and apart from the first one I got (DOA, just had bad luck I guess...) this one is fine. Quiet, fast, and was fairly cheap at the time (120GB two/three years ago was pretty expensive). If I had the money, I'd be all over this one. I just hope it's closer to a full Terabyte, or else I may aswell just buy two 500GB and get my RAID0 on.