First Hands On with the Only 1TB Drive: Hitachi's 7K1000

Louis Ramirez — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:45:51 EDT

We're not sure how this one slipped by us, but the folks at AnandTech quietly got their hands on Hitachi's 7K1000, which is both the first terabyte drive in retail and Hitachi's first 3.5-inch drive to use perpendicular recording (that basically means it records your files vertically, as opposed to horizontally to allow for more storage space). Ok, so is the drive worth your cash? Hell yeah. Here's why...

First of all is the price. For $399 you get exactly 931.5GB of storage space. Think of all the, er, video you can store on that sucker. Performance-wise, the guys at AnandTech thought the drive was phenomenal beating its closest rival, Western Digital's Raptor, which has a 10,000rpm, but caps out at 150GB. Other things to note: the Hitachi drive has a SATA interface and operates at spindle speed of 7,200rpm. It has a five-platter design (200GB per platter) and a 32MB cache.

Hitachi also has a CinemaStar version of this drive in the works, which will find a home inside DVRs. But for your home theater PC, you can't top the 7K1000. – Louis Ramirez

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 [AnandTech]

Hitachi Promises 1TB Hard Drive for 2007

Gizloco — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:24:39 EST

Hitachi plans to release a 3.5-inch hard drive with a 1TB (one terabyte) capacity sometime in the first half of 2007, or The Double-O Seven as I like to call it. (The company, apparently, can't keep a promise, since they originally claimed that it'd have one last year.) This massive hard drive will be christened the Deskstar 7K1000 and will carry a $399 price tag. Can you imagine that, 1,000 gigabytes all in a standard 3.5-inch casing? Usenet, here I come.

Sure, drives with 1TB of space aren't exactly new, but these large-capacity drives were mostly limited to mini home servers and the like, such as the Iomega Network Attached Storage. Seagate came close last year with the release of a 750GB hard drive, but when you spend all day sucking in content from public and private trackers, you need all the space you can get. It's rated at 7,200 rpm, so it should be plenty fast. Let's just hope Hitachi can keep its promise this time. – Nicholas Deleon

Here comes the terabyte hard drive [CNET News.com]

Gizmodo: deskstar 7k1000

First Hands On with the Only 1TB Drive: Hitachi's 7K1000

Hitachi Promises 1TB Hard Drive for 2007