Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (
Hitachi GST) has started to ship its 1TB hard disk drives (HDDs)
introduced early this year commercially. But the hard drive that represents a milestone in desktop data storage costs a little less than two times higher compared to slightly less capacious one, which makes it not very affordable.
Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 model features five 200GB platters and ten heads, has 7200rpm motor as well as 32MB data buffer. The manufacturer claims that the drive has 8.5ms read seek time, 9.2ms write seek time and 1070Mb/s (133.75MB/s) maximum media transfer rate. Currently the company ships 1TB hard disk drive with Serial ATA-300 interface, but a model with Parallel ATA interface is also expected to be available.
Hitachi’s 1TB hard disk drive indisputably represents a milestone in desktop storage, as only ten years ago the world’s most capacious hard disk drive was 16.7GB IBM Deskstar, whereas 1GB landmark in desktops was achieved in 1995. But, it appears, end-users will have to pay a significant premium to acquire the product that reached 1TB milestone.
Currently Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard disk drives with 1TB capacity are available in Japan for ¥51 500 - ¥55980 ($433 - $470), much higher compared to Seagate Barracuda 750GB, which retails for ¥29400 - ¥39660 ($247 - $333) in Tokyo, according to Akiba PC Hotline web-site. The recommended price of the 1TB drive from Hitachi for the U.S. is $399, whereas Seagate’s 750GB product costs starting from $249 in the country.
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Latest comment: 06/05/07 06:29:38 AM
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I think i'll be getting me 2 of these and running in raid 1
Can't afford to lose data
[Posted by: radicalx | Date: 04/05/07 07:07:58 AM]
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five 250 GB platters?
[Posted by: Nelson | Date: 04/05/07 09:27:58 AM]
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let me see... windows calculator...
5 platter with 250GB each = 1.25TB
let me verify that with a linux calculator...
[Posted by: tti_7 | Date: 04/05/07 01:46:25 PM]
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Umm, doesn't "five 250GB platters" means a total of 1.25TB?!?!
[Posted by: eltoro | Date: 04/06/07 02:35:29 AM]
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That's what I meant, but mister tti_7 didn't see that.
[Posted by: Nelson | Date: 04/06/07 04:21:09 PM]
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Yeah, it's actually five 200GB platters.
Anyway, the first measurements have showed it to be _way_ quieter, _way_ faster than any previous 7200rpm driver out there, so it might easily be worth the premium.
Ie. it should catch up with Raptor X series in performance, and still be quieter than eg. Samsung's HDDs. Sounds quite awesome,though I'd wait for more reviews (especially storagereview.com's).
[Posted by: corrr | Date: 04/06/07 04:30:03 PM]
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I want 8 of these for my RAID.
They seem AWESOME. Check out revision at:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2949
[Posted by: xMe | Date: 04/07/07 09:50:26 AM]
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I've been waiting to get my hands on one of these since they were announced back in January. I hope they hit retail soon.
[Posted by: TehFRAG | Date: 04/07/07 10:27:01 AM]
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Heard that they should hit the shelves in about 2 weeks = End of April.
[Posted by: 2 weeks | Date: 04/13/07 11:34:47 AM]
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Isn't the more plates plus the more heads increase the chances the drive will break?
[Posted by: No-way | Date: 06/05/07 06:29:38 AM]
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