Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 - 1 Terabyte - Perpendicular (Best Hard-Drive + Quietest)

Nelly · 20 Mar 2007 at 02:47

Wow wow wow!! lol

Hitachi is now the overall hard-drive kings for the time being. . . !

Hurry up OcUK, get them on order. . . . lol

Heres the Review:- http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2949

When it comes to gaming the Raptors rule but the 7K1000 is not that far behind with a second place tie in the disk intensive Sims2 and a strong fourth place finish in Battlefield 2. Although we are looking at pure performance results, in subjective testing we finally have a 7200rpm drive that "feels" as fast as the Raptor family of drives when loading or playing a game. The best overall gaming performance in a drive with a SATA interface is still the Raptors but considering the storage size, acoustic, and cost per-Gigabyte advantages of the Hitachi drive we are heavily leaning towards changing our recommendation.

Our Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 is the quietest drive that we have ever tested. We basically could not hear the drive and at times wondered if it was operating with AAM turned on. Even with AAM turned off, the drive was extremely quiet at idle and under load where it still scored better than our other test units. Our subjective opinion with AAM turned off is that the seek requests are muted greatly but still noticeable when compared to the other drives. The only other significant audible noise is a slight whirling sound as the drive spins up on a cold start or after a reboot. We just cannot emphasize enough how quiet this drive is in our test configuration with AAM enabled at the 128 setting. We even removed the rubber mounting grommets in our drive cage and did not notice any differences in acoustics. Our base dB(A) level in the room at time of testing was 25 dB(A).

titaniumx3 · 20 Mar 2007 at 05:23

Nice scores, but I don't like the idea of storing 1TB worth of data on a single drive cos if it breaks, you are screwed big time.

matja · 20 Mar 2007 at 08:55

titaniumx3 said:
Nice scores, but I don't like the idea of storing 1TB worth of data on a single drive cos if it breaks, you are screwed big time.

I'm sure someone said that when the 1.44MB floppy was introduced, too.

MagicalTrevor · 20 Mar 2007 at 09:18

titaniumx3 said:
Nice scores, but I don't like the idea of storing 1TB worth of data on a single drive cos if it breaks, you are screwed big time.

Get two?

Scoobie Dave · 20 Mar 2007 at 09:42

1 Terabyte HD, knew it would not be long before they came out. Nice scores too. :cool:

I wonder how much they will be?

manoz · 20 Mar 2007 at 09:44

Not really a terabyte are they

Hopefully they should drive the price of the 750 giggers down and 1 TB be the price the 750Gs are now

Slackworth · 20 Mar 2007 at 10:03

Just spoken to Hitachi suppliers. UK are getting stock in Mid April.

matja · 20 Mar 2007 at 10:37

manoz said:
Not really a terabyte are they

Why not?

1953525168 sectors = 1000204886016 bytes = 1.0002 TB

supafly · 20 Mar 2007 at 11:18

Looking forward to using them on a raid1 or possibly raid10 setup

manoz · 20 Mar 2007 at 12:51

matja said:
Why not?

1953525168 sectors = 1000204886016 bytes = 1.0002 TB

I was referring to the capacity stated but the OS which is 931.5 GB (of course same is said for every capacity)

matja · 20 Mar 2007 at 12:55

ah, see what you mean. well, it's not quite a Tebibyte, but it is a Terabyte.

photoshop · 20 Mar 2007 at 13:10

one of these in an external enclosure will do me fine!
im sick of having loads of hdd's, with this i will only need another drive to house the OS/Progz and this can house my archive!
Wicked. Will only need 2HDD's! Less noise / less heat / less power consumption!

Combat squirrel · 20 Mar 2007 at 13:54

Swweeeett looks awesome, any idea on price? its $399 in usa, = £205 here, adding Mr **** Browns cut id say £230 - £250 ish ?

rpstewart · 20 Mar 2007 at 14:35

Combat squirrel said:
Swweeeett looks awesome, any idea on price? its $399 in usa, = £205 here, adding Mr **** Browns cut id say £230 - £250 ish ?

In an ideal world maybe but exchange rates don't happen in IT so expect to see an ex VAT price of £300-350 to start with

Combat squirrel · 20 Mar 2007 at 14:56

rpstewart said:
In an ideal world maybe but exchange rates don't happen in IT so expect to see an ex VAT price of £300-350 to start with

There avin a laugh if its that much, the seagates 750gb at £190 looks very nice now if they expect people to pay that ! lol, if the seagate is 190, 230 to 250 sounds about right for 1 TB

Scoobie Dave · 20 Mar 2007 at 15:02

rpstewart said:
£300-350

Ouch that's too much. :eek:

They don't seem so attractive now.

Girdag · 20 Mar 2007 at 15:09

Combat squirrel said:
There avin a laugh if its that much, the seagates 750gb at £190 looks very nice now if they expect people to pay that ! lol, if the seagate is 190, 230 to 250 sounds about right for 1 TB

You can get a good 500GB drive (WD500AAKS, for example) for £90. I'd be surprised if many people would be willing to pay £300 for 1TB of storage, looking at that exchange rate.

The $6m Dan · 20 Mar 2007 at 15:10

I've no need for 1TB of storage, but I'd love the speed and silence.
Hopefully they'll release a 200GB single platter drive

Tarty · 20 Mar 2007 at 18:18

Thats a tadd annoying just bought a 750 7200.10 for an external....

HighlandeR · 20 Mar 2007 at 20:47

Tarty said:
Thats a tadd annoying just bought a 750 7200.10 for an external....

Still seems to be 2x500giggers at 80-90 quid each provides a good cheap 1TB soloution.

As someone said u dont wanna have one die on ya and all ya infos lost literally

but 1TB 1 drive does also appeal big time especially for less noise and near raptor performance... dam dam now I want one