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Seven One-Terabyte Hard Drives Enter, Seven Leave (But Only One is the Best)
Posted by Jason Chen at 6:00 AM on March 12, 2008
ExtremeTech just compared seven one-terabyte hard drives with varying platter sizes and architectures and discovered that the drives are actually all quite similar, but with minor variations in power, noise and speed. If you're looking for a low power, low noise drive that's lightly slower than the rest—perhaps for a media centre box— Western Digital's GreenPower (WD1000FYPS) drives could be for you. If you're looking for the absolute best in performance, then Samsung Spinpoint HD103UJ won most of the tests ExtremeTech ran. And at US$260, it's actually the second cheapest drive they tested. [ExtremeTech]
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Ivan_PSP
Posted March 15, 2008 6:06 PM
I have 652 Gigabyte used outer of 1 Terabyte. I plan to have 10 Terabyte of data on MY PC soon.
getz76
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
Nice to read, I just purchased 4 of those 1gb WD GP drives for my RAID 5 NAS. :)
getz76
Jordan Lund
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
Why do they say "massive capacity!!!" on each one? Aren't they ALL 1 TB drives?
Jordan Lund
ripfire4
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
71 Terabytes? Damn! How long was I asleep?
ripfire4
stonefry
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
@thechansen: Please don't put redundant backups on a single drive.
stonefry
nutbastard
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
Or maybe it should be, "Seven Enter, One Leaves"
Like if you did a cage match to the death with 7 people, presumably one would leave.
Or maybe that's better left as a title for a pr0n film.
nutbastard
Kaiser-Machead
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
From the wording in the headline, I think "seven leave" may actually be correct, as indicated by (But only one is the best). If it were "Six leave" then it would be "And", not "But". It may be awkward, but I don't think it's erroneous after all.
Kaiser-Machead
Sqube
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
Maybe you all should be a little more careful with your reading comprehension...?
All jokes aside though, this is useful stuff. I'm building a new rig in the next couple of months and this is just perfect timing for me.
Sqube
BigDanInTX
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
@nutbastard: I was thinking that too, but went and read the article and then forgot to mention it. LOL
BigDanInTX
BigDanInTX
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
I am still so scared to put so much onto one drive THAT large. I've had 40GB drives go out on me and it was devastating at the time. I use a 320GB external for movies/music and I don't access it as much as I would an internal drive.
BigDanInTX
nutbastard
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
"Seven Enter, Seven Leave"
Wouldn't that be 6 leave, if one is the best?
nutbastard
Joseph
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
Seems a lot of giz readers have ADHD or ADD or one of those reading deficiency acronyms.
Joseph
Average-Dudes
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
Yeah crappy title. I want a seven terabyte hard drive..
Average-Dudes
Akmed
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
is it a 2.5" or 3.5"?
if 2.5", i would SOOOO buy it for my PS3.
oh and is it a SATA?
Akmed
ChromeBro
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
Where is the next bump up from 1TB? It's been at least a year!
ChromeBro
Kingteddybear
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
First read lead me to believe there was a 7TB drive on the market as well. Oh well still good to know.
Kingteddybear
thechansen
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
Backing up 250 DVDs is a good start at around 1.5 GB each. Having another 600 GB in photoshop and raw images. Then there is applications, redundant back ups, music, and you can fill a nice amount of that up. Also video editing puts a good dent into it. I need another terabyte drive now that I think about it....
thechansen
Kaiser-Machead
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
If this article was actually about a 7TB hard drive, you'd think that the headline would have a helluvalot more exclamation points.
Kaiser-Machead
fastm3driver
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
Yea, I too was thinking for a minute how I would fill up a 7TB drive.
I think you know the answer...
fastm3driver
AaronC
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
I just read it as seven different 1 terabyte hard drives because that is what it states. go figure.
: P
AaronC
stonefry
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
I just read it as seven different 1 terabyte hard drives because my brain knows that the others don't exist.
stonefry
CCNA1AB
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
I about had a heart attack! 7TB thats like my entire life on one hard drive.
CCNA1AB
workingonyourinvoice
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
@werk: me too. Those will probably be released next month.
workingonyourinvoice
SigmundTheSeaMonster
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
7TB ftw...wait a minute! What kinda headline is that! I'm not even going to read the rest of the Giz...
SigmundTheSeaMonster
lilaliendog
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
whoa nice that's the price of two 300GB hd's from fry's during their constant sales. One of those TB drives could hold me over for a very very long time.
lilaliendog
werk
Posted 9:53 AM 12/3/08
Dammit, I started reading the headline and thought "Wow! 7TB hard drives already!" and got excited...then I finished reading and realized it was just a 1TB hard drive shootout. Meh.
werk
diabolusunknown
Posted 11:44 AM 12/3/08
@nutbastard: Whoever leaves that match will be wanted my no man ever again.
diabolusunknown
jak2rocks
Posted 1:45 PM 12/3/08
@getz76: I think you mean 1TB, not 1GB, lol.
jak2rocks
benenglish
Posted 3:39 AM 13/3/08
OK, so pron collectors everywhere rejoice. But are they getting what they really need? I think not.
Seagate announced last September that they would be producing a fully-encrypted-in-hardware 1TB drive sometime this year. Wake me when it's available.
benenglish
MrDisco1
Posted 12:55 PM 14/3/08
I must voice my strong disagreement with the reviewer. My Samsung F1 1TB drive, all of 20 days old, died. It spins up, then immediately generates a stream of clicking noises. Ran the Samsung dos util on it and it was full of bad sectors.
Lost over 500GB of data :( I can accept that consumer grade drives are not as robust and Enterprise class, but I can't accept a drive to fail that quickly.
That will teach me not to stray from Seagate/WD/Hitachi.
MrDisco1