Hitachi announces second-generation terabyte drive
The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B spreads 1TB of capacity over only three platters.
(Credit: Hitachi)Hitachi was first to hit the terabyte mark when it announced the 1TB Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive in January 2007. Fast forward a year and a half, and the company is back with not a larger version of the drive but a more efficient model in the Deskstar 7K1000.B. Like its predecessor, the 7K1000.B is a 3.5-inch, 7,200rpm hard drive that serves up 1TB of storage space and a 32MB buffer. It hits that magic terabyte mark, however, by using only three disks--down from the five-disk design of the older 1TB drive. It also borrows from Hitachi's 2.5-inch mobile drives and includes Bulk Data Encryption.
Hitachi says the new three-disk design improves idle power consumption up to 43 percent compared with last year's model. Fewer platters should also mean improved reliability, acoustics, and seek times. The Deskstar 7K1000.B also matches Samsung's Spinpoint F1, which was the first three-disk drive to offer 1TB of capacity.
While desktops go missing at a much slower rate than laptops, that didn't deter Hitachi from offering Bulk Data Encryption on the Deskstar 7K1000.B. This feature encrypts data as it is written to the drive and decrypts when it's retrieved. This hard drive-level security is superior to software or system-level security measures, and it has no impact on system performance.
The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B will sell for $239 when it starts shipping later this month. Hitachi will also ship the Deskstar E7K1000 this month for $279, an enterprise version of the drive designed for low-duty-cycle, 24x7 applications.
- by guest86 July 10, 2008 12:20 PM PDT
- I agree with michaelportent .
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(4 Comments)1 TB? No way for me to put my all files on it. Waste my time! :-( You will easily lost your important files from 1 TB. Don't forget backup your files on CD/DVD/Blu-Ray disc and can live longest than Hard Drive's life cycle. My favorite max GB for me is 100 GB to 500 GB. 500 GB(Max) is enough for me. I hate Seagate. I love Western Digital so much and WD is more strongest than Seagate. Maxtor is ok, but I touch my Maxtor USB Hard drive is little hotter than Western Digital. Go to Western Digital all way. Western Digital(WD) is world's best hard drive and our favorite color is blue. Blue can lead into the future. Blue = Very Good - Powerful than all other colors. Seagate = Yellow(mean short life cycle and you will lost files easily) Yellow = Caution.
My old WD hard drive 20 GB born in Dec. 1999 and dead at Oct. 11, 2005. Live longer WD hard drive! :-) My old Maxtor USB Hard drive still live from 2003 to now(2008). I don't use backup hard drive much. Save hard drive life longer. I have two WD 500 GB each. No hotter appear. Cool and right way to use them. Because WD MyBook have build in air breath to keep cool air to push warm air out.
Why replace your hard drive again, again many times? We will move to Solid State Disk(SSD) soon, because SSD have longer life cycle. SSD life is about 20 times of per hard drive.What you think about SSD? Do our homework for study both SSD and HDD life cycle.