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Hitachi launches 1TB per platter hard drives
STORAGE VENDOR Hitachi has released its first 1TB per platter hard drive.
Hitachi's high density monster follows hot on the heels of Seagate, which announced its own 1TB per platter hard drive last month. Hitachi however has played it cautiously with its hard drives, putting just a single platter in its 5K1000.B and 7K1000.D drives.
For reasons only known to Hitachi, the firm decided to launch the drives with capacities of 1TB. The 7K1000.D Deskstar drive spins its solitary platter at 7,200RPM while the Cinemastar unit uses the firm's Coolspin technology, effectively spinning the platters somewhere around 5,200RPM. Both drives have a 32MB cache.
Hitachi was the first storage vendor to break the 1TB capacity barrier, however since then it has fallen back, with Seagate and Western Digital leading the pack. However earlier this year Western Digital announced that it will buy Hitachi, with the deal set to complete later this year.
Brendan Collins, VP of product marketing at Hitachi GST said, "The areal density race continues and while having the highest capacity is appealing, reaching 1TB per platter is equally important as it serves a full range of applications and opportunities across the industry's largest market volume."
Usually Hitachi puts five platters in its high-end drives, however it seems the firm didn't want to push the boat out and launch a 5TB drive straight off the bat. Having fewer platters means fewer moving parts, reducing power consumption and the chances of a head crash. µ
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It'd true that when you have a single HD with TB's of data that losing one to failure is pretty damn annoying, but on the other hand it's also easier to buy two and keep a copy.
However I recently had a drive fail and lo and behold shortly after a backup drive from another brand also failed, and that's why those 1000 year DVD-R's recently announced didn't seem so bad..
It's not true that TB drives are so impossible to fill though, a single game already takes 10GB and a bluray rip easily takes upto 8, and then there's the porn and wikileaks db's of course :)
Not to mention if you are into video editing, that HD stuff and those temp files eat storage aplenty.
And then there's the windowa mystery, it seems to gobble up space for no reason, even when you keep the tmp folder clean.
when will they learn, never to put all the eggs in one basket...
when (NOT *IF*!) it crashes, everything is lost, except the company profit from selling you a better pc!!
companies lazily putting only one drive in, so they can sell it cheaply to dumberer pole, who have no clue, "hey, just lookit those HUGE numbers, Maude!" they would be lucky to use even 1% of it...
"Usually Hitachi puts five platters in its high-end drives, however it seems the firm didn't want to push the boat out and launch a 5TB drive straight off the bat."
Its more to do with making money.Now they can milk the public 3 times at the highest prices. 3,4,5 TB.
The only true reliable drives over 1TB are from Samsung. I'm not sure why that is but look at the failure rate of drives from WDC, Hitachi, and Seagate and be warned. That's not fanboism that's not wanting to wake up to lost data especially 1tb or mores worth which is unreasonable to even burn to disk. Personally I don't trust hitachi as when they bought IBM deathstar they wouldn't warranty my drives they told me they were OEM when I had box purchased them. I believe Western Digital purchasing them will certainly help the problems that plague Hitachi/IBM.