Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Hitachi's New 400GB Drive
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "HARDWARE" @ 01:00 PM
"Hitachi's deskstar 7K400 ($400) is the new king of big: The 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive comes with an 8MB buffer and a staggering 400GB of storage. The reasonably priced drive, available now, also features improved digital-media handling capabilities. In our tests it performed exceptionally well on standard desktop applications, too.
To reach 400GB in the new model, Hitachi essentially slipped two more 80GB platters into its 250GB Deskstar 7K250--the fastest hard drive we have tested to date."
"The drive is not only speedy; Hitachi says it also excels at streaming video--a key function of set-top, TiVo-like boxes and of PCs used as digital video recorders--thanks to its new Streaming Command Set." Ok, now we seriously need the drool icon. This is a boon for all folks look to make their large RAID fileserver or build their own digital media servers. No precise benchmarks or availability date yet.
To reach 400GB in the new model, Hitachi essentially slipped two more 80GB platters into its 250GB Deskstar 7K250--the fastest hard drive we have tested to date."
"The drive is not only speedy; Hitachi says it also excels at streaming video--a key function of set-top, TiVo-like boxes and of PCs used as digital video recorders--thanks to its new Streaming Command Set." Ok, now we seriously need the drool icon. This is a boon for all folks look to make their large RAID fileserver or build their own digital media servers. No precise benchmarks or availability date yet.
