Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Hitachi's 1 Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 02:27 PM
"The new drive is a milestone for both Hitachi and the hard drive industry. Not only is it the first product to store up to 1,000 gigabytes on a single hard drive - beating Seagate to the market - but it also comes with a number of innovations. In addition to its Serial ATA II interface, it is the first hard drive that carries as much as 32 MB of cache memory, and it is Hitachi's first 3.5" drive to implement perpendicular magnetic recording technology (PMR). The company had deployed PMR in its Travelstar 5K160 family, but not into desktop drives. Hitachi's data sheet also lists various features that help to increase reliability and reduce power consumption."
There's big and then there's B-I-G...and a 1000 GB hard drive falls into the latter category. The largest single hard drive I own is 500 GB in size, and I have to admit that I don't have much to actually put on it at the moment - I "only" have 24 GB of photos, 75 GB of music, and another 20 GB of video files or so - figure another 30 GB tops of assorted data and files I need to keep, and you end up with a mere 149 GB of user data - not even 20% of what a 1000 GB drive could hold. If I ever get around to digitally archiving my DVD collection though, man, I'm going to need a lot of storage!
There's big and then there's B-I-G...and a 1000 GB hard drive falls into the latter category. The largest single hard drive I own is 500 GB in size, and I have to admit that I don't have much to actually put on it at the moment - I "only" have 24 GB of photos, 75 GB of music, and another 20 GB of video files or so - figure another 30 GB tops of assorted data and files I need to keep, and you end up with a mere 149 GB of user data - not even 20% of what a 1000 GB drive could hold. If I ever get around to digitally archiving my DVD collection though, man, I'm going to need a lot of storage!
