One Big Honkin Hard Drive

Written By
Jim Rapoza
Jim Rapoza
Published: May 18, 2007
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
1 minute read
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Over at our Ziff Davis sibling site Extreme Tech, Loyd Case has done an interesting review of a new terabyte hard drive. That’s right, it’s a regular hard drive that holds one terabyte (or 1,000 gigabytes if you prefer to look at it that way.

And I thought I was cool for recently picking up that 500Gbyte drive for my home system.

The drive is the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 and it has a 7,200 RPM rotational speed. Pricing for the drive is $399. Quite a bit more than what I paid for my 500Gbyte drive but still not too bad for being on the cutting edge of hard drive capacity.

For all the nitty gritty details on the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 terabyte hard drive check out the Extreme Tech review here.

Jim Rapoza

Jim Rapoza, Chief Technology Analyst, eWEEK.For nearly fifteen years, Jim Rapoza has evaluated products and technologies in almost every technology category for eWEEK. Mr Rapoza's current technology focus is on all categories of emerging information technology though he continues to focus on core technology areas that include: content management systems, portal applications, Web publishing tools and security. Mr. Rapoza has coordinated several evaluations at enterprise organizations, including USA Today and The Prudential, to measure the capability of products and services under real-world conditions and against real-world criteria. Jim Rapoza's award-winning weekly column, Tech Directions, delves into all areas of technologies and the challenges of managing and deploying technology today.

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