Terabyte is here

As promised at CES 2007, Hitachi has formally unveiled the first 1.0 Terabyte hard drive. Watch for Seagate to follow in a few weeks with their own 1 TB model.

UPDATE: Anandtech has done a lot more benchmarking, including a pointless RAID 0 diversion, and concludes:

Our experiences over the past few weeks with the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 have been terrific. The overall performance of this drive is excellent and close enough to the WD1500ADFD Raptor drive that we consider it a worthy adversary in most situations. The Raptors are still the drives to own for most benchmarking purposes or those simply wanting the best overall performance in a SATA drive regardless of price or capacity, but the reduced capacity and higher noise levels are certainly a drawback.

We consider the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 the best 7200rpm drive we have tested to date. This is quite the accomplishment considering this is Hitachi’s first 3.5″ form factor drive that utilizes perpendicular recording technology. We found the write performance and sustained transfer rates to be excellent and class leading in several of our test results. The drive also offers a very balanced blend of performance across a wide variety of business and home applications. The 7K1000 even has the best overall thermal and acoustic characteristics of the high performance 7200rpm drives in our tests. For these reasons, we award the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 our Gold Editors’ Choice award and highly recommend the purchase of this drive if you are currently looking for a high-capacity drive with performance to match.

Welcome to the golden age of file storage. It only gets better from here. Bonus nail in the coffin of RAID 0, to boot.

One thought on “Terabyte is here”

  1. Sigh. Mission Control keeps filling up the hard disk on the family file server, primarily due to an obsession with joining scrapbooking mailing lists and a refusal to ever delete any e-mail, even if it’s spam. No kidding; she has over 100 GB of e-mail stored up.

    When things get tight, I find it’s faster and easier to just go buy a shiny, new, bigger hard drive than clean things up.

    No doubt, I’ll have one of these sometime next year…

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