Hitachi's 1TB Deskstar 7K1000 in the wild
By Ben Drawbaugh 
posted Jan 10th 2007 4:40PM
posted Jan 10th 2007 4:40PM
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
what number is 1,0000? And who else thinks ALL hard drives should the clear top?
how much
"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.
what im really waiting for is a real big SSD. THAT would be nice, but 1 TB i a single drive is ok
"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
i like the lensflare in the last picture.
But will it blend?
that is the question
It says on the box, 333,300 photos, NOT GAMES. Fix your article.
We're going to look at these pictures 20 years from now and laugh.
I'm looking at them an laughing right now! :-D
I particularly like the box with the "NEW! HUGE Capacity = 1000 GB!" blurb. :-)
IM WONDERING WHAT THE CONVERSION 1TB WILL COME OUT TO IN REAL HARD DRIVE SPACE
Noa,
It's going to be round $400.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/
What kind of access time does this thing have?
TIMMAH!
Average seek time - 8.5 ms
http://www.hgst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8027a91c954924ae4bda9f30eac4f0a0/
I wonder how heavy it is. 500gb ones have some heft to them.
DAMN! That's insane - I hadnt' heard of this drive before. :)
SunJet - probably 900GB ? Stupid hard drive math.
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.
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.
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...
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
Sunjet:
931.32GB
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.
This seems like a more appropriete box for it then:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5451/hitachi1tbboxsmgf6.jpg
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!
Am I the *only* person nervous about a hard drive manufacturer bringing back the dreaded "Death Star" line? =P
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..
dude, that harddrive is like a rich rapper. he's got all those sexxxy cd's all up in his grill
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 :)
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.
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.
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
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RyanP you're correct, IBM currently uses deskstar in their business pc's. They are pretty solid.
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.