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Hitachi releases one-terabyte drive

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Hitachi Press Release

* Deskstar 7K1000 – gaming and high-performance PCs, external storage devices and upgrade applications
o SATA 3.0Gb/s and PATA-133 interfaces
o Ramp load design for increased shock protection
o Three low-power idle modes to boost power efficiency

* CinemaStar 7K1000 – DVR applications
o Adaptive error recovery and SMART command transport for optimized video streaming and picture quality
o Smooth Stream Technology to optimize the drive for audio/video applications requiring reliable storage
o "Bedroom quiet" acoustics

Finally, an enterprise version of the TB drive designed for lower duty-cycle, high-capacity enterprise environments is currently under evaluation at major OEM customers and is expected to be available in the second quarter.

Pricing and Availability for the Deskstar 7K1000

The Deskstar 7K1000 SATA version will be available in Q1 2007 at 750-GB and one-TB capacities. The 1TB capacity point will have a suggested retail price of $399 (USD).

The CinemaStar 1TB hard drive will be available in the second quarter.

Technical Specifications:

Deskstar 7K1000

1000/750 GB – SATA (GB = 1 billion bytes, accessible capacity may be less)
148 billion bits per square inch maximum areal density
1070 Mb/s max. media data rate
8.7 ms average seek time (with command overhead)
7,200 RPM, 4.17 ms average latency
Serial-ATA 3.0Gb/s
32 MB data buffer – SATA
26.1 mm in height (max)
700g in weight (max)
5/4 platters, 10/8 recording heads – SATA
300 G/1 ms pulse non-operating shock
9.0 (5 disk)/8.1 (4 disk) watt idle power – SATA
2.9 Bels typical idle acoustics
5-60 degrees C operating temperature

CinemaStar

Specifications will be available at the time of product shipment
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does it work with Windows XP SP2?
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MKSheppard wrote:does it work with Windows XP SP2?
It frigging better!

*Edit in actual computer terms anyone want to do the math and tell me how many actual GB's this 1000 GB drive has(Due to that whole Computers think 1024 MB=1GB while Hard Drive company's think it's 1000 MG=1GB)

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Mr Bean wrote:
MKSheppard wrote:does it work with Windows XP SP2?
It frigging better!

*Edit in actual computer terms anyone want to do the math and tell me how many actual GB's this 1000 GB drive has(Due to that whole Computers think 1024 MB=1GB while Hard Drive company's think it's 1000 MG=1GB)
Unless I botched my math horribly, the actual space should be something like 903.35gb.
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Assuming I did my math right:

1000 GB (listed in press release) * 1000 MB per GB =1*10^6

1*10^6 / 1024 = 976.5625 GB real size

Divide that by 1024 again and you get about 5% less "real" HD space than advertised (and bear in mind that this is for a blank disk, not a formated one.)
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General Zod wrote:
Unless I botched my math horribly, the actual space should be something like 903.35gb.

Perhaps this summer when the 1.2 TB drives are released we will get our first "actual" TB drive.

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MKSheppard wrote:does it work with Windows XP SP2?

Why not?
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Ace Pace wrote:
MKSheppard wrote:does it work with Windows XP SP2?

Why not?
Guy reading over my shoulder thinks it's because there's supposedly a limit to how much space XP can format or something. He doesn't really know what he's talking about and neither do I.
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Losonti Tokash wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:
MKSheppard wrote:does it work with Windows XP SP2?

Why not?
Guy reading over my shoulder thinks it's because there's supposedly a limit to how much space XP can format or something. He doesn't really know what he's talking about and neither do I.
It has more to do with how Windows or the BIOS reads the hard drive's sectors, and isn't too relevant in modern computers, since we've more or less gotten around the majority of old hard disk limitations. Clicky.
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Losonti Tokash wrote:Guy reading over my shoulder thinks it's because there's supposedly a limit to how much space XP can format or something. He doesn't really know what he's talking about and neither do I.
There are some technical limitations preventing NTFS being used on volumes formated as "basic" which are greater than 2 terrabytes in size.

"Dynamic" formated volumes dont have this limitation
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Mr Bean wrote:*Edit in actual computer terms anyone want to do the math and tell me how many actual GB's this 1000 GB drive has(Due to that whole Computers think 1024 MB=1GB while Hard Drive company's think it's 1000 MG=1GB)
1 TB = 1000 GB = 10^6 MB = 10^9 KB = 10^12 B

Also,

1 TB = 1000 GB ~= 931.32 GiB (which presumably is what you're wanting)

A 1 TiB drive would be 2^40 bytes or 1.0995 TB
Xon wrote:"Dynamic" formated volumes dont have this limitation
Those limits are 2^32 - 1 clusters (i.e. ~256TiB max)
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phongn wrote:
Mr Bean wrote:*Edit in actual computer terms anyone want to do the math and tell me how many actual GB's this 1000 GB drive has(Due to that whole Computers think 1024 MB=1GB while Hard Drive company's think it's 1000 MG=1GB)
1 TB = 1000 GB = 10^6 MB = 10^9 KB = 10^12 B

Also,

1 TB = 1000 GB ~= 976.5 GiB (which presumably is what you're wanting)
Hrmm, thought my math may have been a bit off. I got that number when I ran it through the first time but it didn't seem quite right for some reason. Ah well.
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General Zod wrote:Hrmm, thought my math may have been a bit off. I got that number when I ran it through the first time but it didn't seem quite right for some reason. Ah well.
I was actually wrong and used a rough conversion factor. I've corrected it above (10^12/2^30 = 931.32 GB)
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You're all still wrong. It's (10^12 / 2^30) Gigabytes. Comes out to 931 GB.
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How long would it take to defrag such a beast?
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Beowulf wrote:You're all still wrong. It's (10^12 / 2^30) Gigabytes. Comes out to 931 GB.
Ahem.
Ubiquitous wrote:How long would it take to defrag such a beast?
It depends on how data you have and how badly fragmented it is :P
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phongn wrote:
Beowulf wrote:You're all still wrong. It's (10^12 / 2^30) Gigabytes. Comes out to 931 GB.
Ahem.
So I'm slow posting. Sue me. :P
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1 TB = 10^12 Bytes
10^12 B / 1024 = 976.56 KiB
972.56 KiB / 1024 = 953.67 MiB
953.67 MiB / 1024 = 931.32 GiB

This figure, however, does not account for the 8 Megabytes that windows requires to be left unpartitioned to function. Assuming the drive is used with Windows.

An actual 1 terabyte drive would have to be 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. Or 1.1 TB on the box to actually format to a terabyte.
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DAY-MN. And here I was just the other day asking a friend of mine when we were going to start seeing the next big jump in hard drive space.
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Hmmm...wonder how many hi-res porn movies I can stuff on it...
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skyman8081 wrote:1 TB = 10^12 Bytes
10^12 B / 1024 = 976.56 KiB
972.56 KiB / 1024 = 953.67 MiB
953.67 MiB / 1024 = 931.32 GiB

This figure, however, does not account for the 8 Megabytes that windows requires to be left unpartitioned to function. Assuming the drive is used with Windows.

An actual 1 terabyte drive would have to be 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. Or 1.1 TB on the box to actually format to a terabyte.
I'm looking forward to it.

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phongn wrote:
Xon wrote:"Dynamic" formated volumes dont have this limitation
Those limits are 2^32 - 1 clusters (i.e. ~256TiB max)
Due to many features requiring 4kb clusters, and the MBR, the max size is ~2TB. You see this issue come up every now and again when people at ARS talk about large RAID arrays under Windows.
Ubiquitous wrote:How long would it take to defrag such a beast?
You shouldnt need to. File fragmentation only occurs when the drive is very full.
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Wait, so what happens if you manually specify a larger cluster size when you format a volume?
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Uraniun235 wrote:Wait, so what happens if you manually specify a larger cluster size when you format a volume?
The builtin compression and encryption stop working, cant remember if anything else breaks
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