You've seen it
announced and
in the wild, and you've probably been wondering if the $400 or so required to procure the
1TB beast was indeed worth it. Thankfully, TomsHardware has the guidance you've been yearning for, as it opened up its test bench and welcomed
Hitachi's 7K1000 with open arms. The 935.5GB of usable space brought smiles to all involved, provided the highest transfer rate of all 7,200RPM drives that it was benchmarked against, and it was even said to "outperform the Seagate Barracuda
7200.10." Truthfully, it was difficult to find any negatives on the behemoth in terms of sheer performance aside from its (forgivable) inability to keep up with the 10,000RPM WD Raptor and its toasty nature, but the reality set in when the
review crew began to evaluate the value presented in such a dense, albeit expensive, HDD. Frankly, reviewers claimed that picking this drive up over a pair of cheaper 500GB drives "wouldn't make a lot of sense," but if you're in dire need of cramming 1TB of, um,
PowerPoint presentations onto a single unit, it's far from a bad option.
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posted April 19th 2007 10:40AM
This is what will start replacing tapes in tape backup.. Been waiting for this.
does this mean that 1tb mac pros are around the corner???
When the heck are we gonna be able to buy one of these? All these reviews are fawning but none say when it will be available. Its seems to be taking longer than it should as Hitachi said it would ship Q1 2007, and Dell has had an exclusive for almost a month. Come on! Please, my new Octo MacPro has two slots waiting for these guys, please.
Re: does this mean that 1tb mac pros are around the corner???
Well, 1TB Mac Pros have been here since the hardware was introduced. You can custom configure one at the Apple Store online or do it after-market. I have a 3 disk internal RAID that is around 1TB in size (3 320GB matched drives) on my 4 core Mac Pro and it is fast, fast, fast!
What this means is that you'll be able to put together up to 4TB of internal storage. Stripe them all into a a 4TB RAID and that's one very large, very fast hard drive. Do this on an 8 core Mac Pro, add RAM to 16 GB and add one of the more powerful Radeon or Nvidia GPU options and you'll have one of the fastest PCs ever made. It could run almost any OS and do so simultaneously within virtual machines at full power. Or Boot Camp into a version of Windows XP or Vista.
The machine would certainly cost more than a few bucks and would be overkill for most people, but this is the power user's dream system come true, at least for now. Can't wait to see what will be possible 3-5 years from now.
40 cents / GB is NOT expensive. Per GB, it's comparable to the 7200.10's price. Comparing it to 2 500GB is not fair because the 500 GBsuses 2x the space and 2x the electricity
Get for of these suckers and RAID the heck out of it. Yummy.
Get four of these suckers and RAID the heck out of it. Yummy.
I would never buy another Deathstar drives. Only Seagates for me!
The price seems totally fair to me. just a year ago, 500gb was 200+. They are now about 150, but I think 100 bucks premium is okay for the double capacity in a single space, especially considering the boost in performance. I was considering two 500gb drives soon, but I think I can swing the extra change for a single TB drive.
At this rate, hddvd and bluray will be completely unnecessary for backups by the time recordable media is affordable, it looks like raid5 is going to be the most economical solution for data protection by then.
As usual the marketing department overstates the capacity. Remember that KB/MB/GB/TB come in multiples of 1024, not 1000. 935GB is about 89GB short of 1TB (1024GB)... and I bet it's not even really 935GB, it's probably 935,000MB (913.1GB)... and it might even be 935,000,000Bytes (891.7GB)!
So is it 1TB, or is it 891.7GB (0.87TB)?
Just out of curiosity...
How long will it take to do a full format on this drive? Couple of days?