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Friday, September 12, 2008
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Looking for some seriously beefy storage that isn't a slouch when it comes to performance? Hitachi's DeskStar 7K1000 may have what you're looking for...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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Storage solutions for the desktop hard disk market are now really starting to take shape. Over the past ten years of PC technology hard disks have been stagnant while sizes have just slowly increased, we have been stuck with the same slow and clumsy interface. Today we have our hands on one of the largest capacity desktop drives available on the market. Hitachi has sent us their new Deskstar 7K1000 drive supporting a full terabyte of data. How will this drive perform? Let's go have a look.
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It wasn't that long ago that Hitachi was the first the reach the 500GB single hard drive milestone, and with the release of the 7k1000, Hitachi retains the capacity crown, also becoming the first to pack 1000 gigabytes into a single drive. But it's not always about finishing first (ask any woman), the performance has to be there too. Join HardwareLogic as we throw the 7k1000 into our testbed and see if it performs as big as it's capacity.
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
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The Deskstar 7K1000 represents a milestone for Hitachi and for the hard drive industry as a whole, as it is the first drive to offer a 1 terabyte capacity. However, Hitachi has not simply grabbed five 200GB platters and stuck them together to create a 1TB hard drive. Rather, there is much more to the Deskstar 7K1000, such as its Serial ATA II interface and the massive 32MB memory buffer. This is also the first desktop Hitachi drive to feature PMR technology (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording).
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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Elsewhere, the 7K1000 has all the features you would expect from a modern hard drive; spindle speed is 7,200rpm, the interface is 3Gbps SATA-II, and it supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ). The onboard data buffer is a whopping 32MB and it even has a legacy Molex power connector - something the Seagate doesn't have - for those of us with ailing power supplies.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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The Hitachi DeskStar 7K1000 1TB HDD uses the familiar 3.5" form factor and spins at 7,200 rpm. The drive uses the SATA 3.0 GB/s interface, though if your mainboard doesn't support that speed you can configure the drive to run at the older, slower SATA speed. Hitachi claims seek times of 8.5ms read and 9.2ms write and the drive uses perpendicular recording technology.
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