Terabyte Hard Drive Put To the Test

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Posted by Zonk on Monday August 13, 2007 @04:15AM from the where-did-the-missing-69-gigs-go dept.

EconolineCrush writes "As a technical milestone, Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive is undeniably impressive. The drive is the first to pack a trillion bytes into a standard 3.5" form factor, and while some may argue the merits of tebi versus tera, that's still an astounding accomplishment. Hitachi also outfitted the drive with 32MB of cache—double what you get with standard desktop drives—making this latest Deskstar a leader in both cache size and total capacity. That looks like a great formula for success on paper, but how does it pan out in the real world? The Tech Report has tested the 7K1000's performance, noise levels, and power consumption against 18 other drives to find out, with surprising results."

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Test? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @04:18AM (#20209465)

Now, my porn collection, THAT is what would put this drive to the test.

kanashhk shhk shhk (Score:5, Funny)

by BadAnalogyGuy ( 945258 ) writes: <BadAnalogyGuy@gmail.com> on Monday August 13, 2007 @04:19AM (#20209469)

ge ge ge kanashhk shhk shhk fzzke kek shhk shhk

I love the sound of head crashes in the morning. Smells like... a coffee break.

RAID 5 Please (Score:5, Funny)

by FF8Jake ( 929704 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @04:23AM (#20209493)

I'm not losing my 1.5TB of porn to a single Hitachi Deathstar.

Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @04:27AM (#20209513)

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Re:Test? (Score:5, Funny)

by Hydryad ( 935968 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @04:37AM (#20209581)

Why am I not surprised at all that porn is the third word in the comments about a terabyte hard drive. Pushing forward innovation since the dawn of time, hot steamy sex.

Re:Data loss (Score:5, Funny)

by ipooptoomuch ( 808091 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @04:43AM (#20209631) Journal

500GB of data loss?!? I CRIED for a half hour over a filled 160GB drive after it got killed by an electrical storm. Even though it wasn't technically covered under warranty, the fine folks at best buy still took it back after I said a defective flux capacitor on the drive started it on fire.

Visit our site! (Score:4, Funny)

by Zebedeu ( 739988 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @04:44AM (#20209641)

The Tech Report has tested the 7K1000's performance, noise levels, and power consumption against 18other drives to find out, with surprising results.
Suspense!

Come on! Just tell us what the results were directly, don't make us have to break Slashdot law and RTFA!

Re:RAID 5 Please (Score:5, Funny)

by tibike77 ( 611880 ) writes: <tibikegamez@yahoo.cSTRAWom minus berry> on Monday August 13, 2007 @05:03AM (#20209725) Journal

Only 1.5 TB of porn ? That's like what, 350 DVDs worth ?

That's 85-125 USD for your entire collection in one single copy.
Or make that a nice round 200$ for two sets of copies.
So, where can I get two 1.5 TB HDDs for 100$ each ?

Sure, the "seek time" would suck, but then again who cares, it's porn, not like you'll die if you wait 15 more seconds before you start looking at it... or are you ?

Fills up too fast anyways (Score:4, Funny)

by emj ( 15659 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @05:12AM (#20209777) Journal

The problem is this will be full in 24h with a 100Mbps connection anyways, or ~6 hours if you live in sweden.

cat got my tongue (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @05:19AM (#20209795)

Yes, but does it Destroy Planets ?

Re:Fills up too fast anyways (Score:5, Funny)

by joke_dst ( 832055 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @06:10AM (#20209999) Journal

No matter how big a hard drive gets it still only has two states: new and full.

Re:Test? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @06:30AM (#20210091)

Pushing forward.... and back... and forward.... and back....

Re:Data loss (Score:5, Funny)

by MrNaz ( 730548 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @07:20AM (#20210347) Homepage

You really, really need to buy a lottery ticket.

Re:kanashhk shhk shhk (Score:5, Funny)

by Sensible Clod ( 771142 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @08:50AM (#20210887) Homepage

That's no moon, it's a hard drive!

Re:RAID 5 Please (Score:5, Funny)

by Applekid ( 993327 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @08:51AM (#20210903)

Only 1.5 TB of porn ? That's like what, 350 DVDs worth ?
But how would we hide 350 DVDs from our parents?

Re:RAID 5 Please (Score:2, Funny)

by biocute ( 936687 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @08:58AM (#20210953)

not like you'll die if you wait 15 more seconds before you start looking at it

Yeah but who would still watch it after coming within 5 seconds?

Re:kanashhk shhk shhk (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @10:28AM (#20211779)

Thats no moon - thats yo mama

Re:Power-of-10 prefixes are the norm in IT (Score:3, Funny)

by Fex303 ( 557896 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @11:14AM (#20212405)

Here's hoping quantum computing doesn't make a sudden arrival - otherwise people may start using qbits and confusion would really reign! ;-)
Schrödinger's hard drive - you don't know the capacity until you open the box.

Haven't you seen "Avenue Q"? (Score:4, Funny)

by wsanders ( 114993 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @12:29PM (#20213315) Homepage

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/avenueq/theinternet isforporn.htm [stlyrics.com] ...

TREKKIE AND GUYS
Porn, porn, porn, porn
porn, porn, porn, porn
KATE
I hate the internet!
TREKKIE AND GUYS
Porn, porn, porn, porn

TREKKIE
The internet is for

TREKKIE AND SOME
The internet is for

TREKKIE AND ALL
The internet is for PORN!

TREKKIE
YEAH!

Re:RAID 5 Please (Score:4, Funny)

by TurboStar ( 712836 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @01:41PM (#20214217)

But how would we hide 350 DVDs from our parents?
You have an entire basement. Look around, I'm sure you'll find somewhere.

Re:Haven't you seen "Avenue Q"? (Score:3, Funny)

by HobophobE ( 101209 ) writes: on Monday August 13, 2007 @04:51PM (#20216649) Homepage

The video is on YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtiGd58J0bY [youtube.com]

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Test? (Score:5, Funny)

kanashhk shhk shhk (Score:5, Funny)

RAID 5 Please (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Test? (Score:5, Funny)

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Visit our site! (Score:4, Funny)

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Fills up too fast anyways (Score:4, Funny)

cat got my tongue (Score:3, Funny)

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Haven't you seen "Avenue Q"? (Score:4, Funny)

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