The First Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed 495
mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech has a review and benchmarks of the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB Hard Drive, which ushers in the terabyte age. It performs well on HDTach and PCMark benchmarks, though not as speedily as professional-grade drives. It could be just the ticket for digital media junkies. 'One of the first issues to note is that you may not see an actual one terabyte capacity on your system. First, the formatted capacity is always less than the raw space available on the drive. Directory information and formatting data always take up some space. Second, the hard drive industry's definition of a megabyte differs from the rest of the PC business. One megabyte of hard drive space is 1,000,000 bytes: 10^6 bytes. Operating systems calculate one megabyte as 2^20 bytes, or 1,048,576 bytes. Once installed and set up, Hitachi's 1TB hard drive offers up an actual formatted capacity of about 935GB, as measured by the OS. That's still a lot of space, by anyone's definition.'" Update: 05/17 21:52 GMT by Z : Adding '^s' missing from article.
Now I need faster broadband (Score:5, Funny)
New New Math? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Zonk (Score:2, Funny)
"One megabyte of hard drive space is 1,000,000 bytes: 106 bytes. Operating systems calculate one megabyte as 220 bytes, or 1,048,576 bytes"
What the hell does that even mean? 106 bytes? 220 bytes?
Reality (Score:3, Funny)
I sure as hell don't want it to say 106 bytes.
Re:Zonk (Score:5, Funny)
From this day forward all badly formed posts shall be known as Zonks.
Re:Damn... (Score:3, Funny)
I may have thrown rocks at my neighbor from time to time.
Sloppy editing. (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, I love ponies.
Re:Why is this still a discussion? (Score:5, Funny)
What!?! Next thing you'll be telling me is that a kilometer isn't 1024 meters long. Please, stop this madness before it spreads!
Re:Now I need faster broadband (Score:4, Funny)
"...by anyones definition" (Score:4, Funny)
Note to future self: remember when 1 terabyte was considered a lot of storage? those were the days....
Re:Ahh Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
eh, you're not missing anything anyway. TFA is just one of those meager gear review sites with 20 words per page spread out onto 8 pages all mostly covered with a bunch of empty rectangles.
what is the DEAL with all those empty rectangles anyway?
I look forward to more write-ups like this (Score:4, Funny)
Re:New New Math? (Score:2, Funny)
Finally a controversy about measuring disk space where someone claims that a megabyte is neither a power of two nor a power of ten. 220 bytes, who would have guessed?
Windoze (Score:3, Funny)
Update (Score:3, Funny)
WTF? now we can't pretend it wasn't a mistake and make fun of the 'stupid' submitter. Curse you!
AACS Compromises (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Zonk (Score:4, Funny)
New drive storage metrics needed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:SUP tag missing - 10^6 and 2^20 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Deathstar (Score:3, Funny)
Darth Vader: I will have the penne all'arrabiata.
Canteen Worker: You'll need a tray.
Darth Vader: Do you know who I am?
Canteen Worker: Do you know who I am?
Darth Vader: This is not a game of who the fuck are you. For I am Vader, Darth Vader, Lord Vader. I can kill you with a single thought.
Canteen Worker: Well, you'll still need a tray.
Darth Vader: No, I will not need a tray. I do not need a tray to kill you. I can kill you without a tray, with the power of the Force, which is strong within me. Even though I could kill you with a tray if I so wished. For I would hack at your neck with the thin bit until the blood flowed across the canteen floor.
Canteen Worker: No, the food is hot. You'll need a tray to put the food on.
Darth Vader: Oh, I see the food is hot. I'm sorry. I did not realise. Ha ha ha ha
Canteen Worker: A fight to the death? This a canteen, I work here.
Darth Vader: Yes, but I am Vader. I am Lord Vader? Everyone challenges me to a fight to the death. Lord Vader? Darth Vader, I'm Darth Vader. Sir Lord Vader? Sir Lord Darth Vader? Lord Darth Sir Lord, Lord Vader of Cheem? Sir Lord Baron Von Vader Ham? The Death Star. I run the Death Star.
Canteen Worker: What's the Death Star?
Darth Vader: This is the Death Star! You're in the Death Star! I run this star!
Canteen Worker: This is a star?
Darth Vader: This is a fucking star! I run it! I'm your boss.
Canteen Worker: You're Mr. Stevens?
Darth Vader: No, I'm
Canteen Worker: He's Head of Catering.
Darth Vader: I'm not Head of Catering! I am Vader, I can kill catering with a thought.
Canteen Worker: Wha'?
Darth Vader: I can kill you all! I can kill me with a thought! Just
Other guy: You have to form a queue if you want food. Can I have, uh
Darth Vader: No, no, no! Do you know who I am?
Other guy: That's Jeff Vader that is!
Darth Vader: I am not Jeff Vader, I am Darth Vader.
Other guy: What? Jeff Vader runs the Death Star?
Darth Vader: No, Jeff
Other guy: You Jeff Vader?
Darth Vader: No, I'm Darth Vader.
Other guy: Are you his brother? Could you get his autograph?
Darth Vader: I can't get his
Re:Damn... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why is this still a discussion? (Score:4, Funny)
* 7 bit bytes
Re:Why is this still a discussion? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why is this still a discussion? (Score:4, Funny)
Of course, we all know this is an evil conspiracy by the hard drive industry.
Re:Zonk (Score:3, Funny)
Re:why explain prefixes? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WOW, 1TB (Score:3, Funny)
Or 320x200 GIF pictures (maybe pr0n)?
Re:Damn... (Score:3, Funny)
You insensitive clod! I'm using one of those right now!
Re:Zonk (Score:3, Funny)
Which, reflecting the bloat, will be named Skylight.
Re:WOW, 1TB (Score:3, Funny)
1THz CPU with 1024 cores
6TB memory
110 Petabyte hard drive
And yes, you will need that storage and power for the 3D volumetric virtual girl we will all be using as an 'input' device.
Re:Why is this still a discussion? (Score:2, Funny)
Yep. That's why the new spelling of "lose" in the dictionary should be "loose". Which, I guess, means the new spelling of "loose" in the dictionary should be "lose".
I guess I'll just have to remember that when I loose my keys. With any luck, the door lock will be lose and I'll be able to get in. Of course, only loosers don't have a spare set of keys somewhere.
Bah. I think I'll stick with the traditional spellings.
Re:Why is this still a discussion? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Zonk (Score:2, Funny)
But... what would we call them then?!
Re:Why is this still a discussion? (Score:3, Funny)
Don't be silly. Kibblemeters and bits have nothing to do with each other.