Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K500 offers two flaps of firsts, being not only the first to hit half a terabyte in a single drive, but one of the very first to use the SATA II interface—that means more data at faster speeds. If you don’t have an SATA II interface in your PC, though, Hitachi will be offering a $500 version with an 8MB buffer and a parallel ATA interface (the long, flat, ribbon cable kind). If you want the SATA II offering, it’s just 20 bucks more—plus you get a bigger 16MB cache.
Not exactly a great value, but the biggest sizes never are. Also, probably not actually available in yellow.
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