Hitachi Deskstar 7k1000 1TB Hard Drive Review

There’s no way we could get through a 1TB hard drive review without mentioning that size matters, but equally important to how big is how fast. When it comes to the Hitachi 7k1000, the answer’s very big and smoking fast. At least comparatively. In today’s systems of dual videocards, quad core processors, and oodles of RAM, the hard drive continues to present a performance bottleneck, especially when pitted against other types of storage options. But while the hard drive market in general desperately needs a breakthrough innovation, smaller strides continue appear with each new generation, and the 7k1000 is no exception. Hitachi rounds our their top drive with top level specs, including perpendicular recording, a generous 32MB buffer, a SATA 3.0Gb/s interface, and lest we forget to mention it one more time, a full terabyte of storage. The only real complaint we can muster is why continue to shy away from a 10,000RPM rotational speed, leaving just the Western Digital Raptors as the only series to claim such a feat?

Rotational speed aside, there’s a lot to like here. Hitachi’s 1TB 7k1000 not only boasts the beefiest capacity available in a single drive configuration, but enthusiast level performance with noise control suitable for the HTPC crowd. In other words, the 7k1000 is a drive everyone can love.

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