7k1000.D 1TB for sale

[TakeNoPrisoners]

Now that this drive is out it paves the way for more 1TB per platter drives so fast 2TB and 3TB drives will be out soon.

 

[ElFenix]

guys on overclock.net have been posting CDM scores, and while the big sequential is impressive my older than dirt SE16 (now caviar blue) 640AAKS (320GB platters) is much faster on the 512k and 4K tests. what gives?

http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives-storage/1110952-hitachi-7k1000-d-9.html

 

[Rifter]

guys on overclock.net have been posting CDM scores, and while the big sequential is impressive my older than dirt SE16 (now caviar blue) 640AAKS (320GB platters) is much faster on the 512k and 4K tests. what gives?

http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives-storage/1110952-hitachi-7k1000-d-9.html

noticed this as well. Seems like a great drive for media storage(mostly large files) but a bad choice for a gaming or OS drive.

 

[Zap]

guys on overclock.net have been posting CDM scores, and while the big sequential is impressive my older than dirt SE16 (now caviar blue) 640AAKS (320GB platters) is much faster on the 512k and 4K tests. what gives?

http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives-storage/1110952-hitachi-7k1000-d-9.html

I think WD usually tunes their 7200RPM drives for that kind of performance. That's why they are on the noisier side (especially Caviar Black) because they seek more aggressively.

 

[blackened23]

My thoughts... what are you going to use it for? Given the size of media today, 1TB is way too small for me. I'm considering upgrading some of my 2TB drives to 3TB, and I have to keep in mind that I don't have infinite space for drives. :|

I don't think you people understand. This is a 1 TB platter which means the drive is RIDICULOUSLY fast. THATS why people are exited about this, I just got one of these last week and its benching 190MB/s in crystal disk mark. For reference, my caviar black 1.5tb 6gb/sec drive with 64MB cache is around 135. Lets put this in perspective here. Thats ALMOST as fast as a generation 1 sandforce 1200 SSD.

So again, THAT IS WHY this is exiting news. I've put this up against my caviar black, AFAIK the black was the previous best platter drive on the market (non enterprise.). My 7k1000.d destroys it in everything, and I do mean everything. Games load faster. Benchmarks are faster. Application load times are much faster. The 1tb platter Hitachi is a better drive, I didn't think anything would top the black. I guess some doubters will whine and moan with their theoretical bullshit about why they shouldn't upgrade and why 1tb platters don't matter. Whatever. And how 1tb isn't enough. True, 1tb isn't enough, but 1tb platters mean many things:

This will also open the gates for greater than 3TB HDD's. Let me laugh at whoever said that 1tb wasn't enough....the fact that 1tb platter drives are in production now opens up the flood gates for A) faster drives and B) cheaper drives and C) HDD's greater than 3GB in capacity. All of which are good things

 

[SickBeast]

guys on overclock.net have been posting CDM scores, and while the big sequential is impressive my older than dirt SE16 (now caviar blue) 640AAKS (320GB platters) is much faster on the 512k and 4K tests. what gives?

http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives-storage/1110952-hitachi-7k1000-d-9.html

Increased platter density improves large sequential transfers, but it detracts from random seek performance because it's harder for the head to find what it's looking for.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

Increased platter density improves large sequential transfers, but it detracts from random seek performance because it's harder for the head to find what it's looking for.

Does the lower random seek performance affect games very much?

 

[blackened23]

Does the lower random seek performance affect games very much?

Nope the difference is trivial. Comparing a Sata3 6gb/s caviar black to the 7k1000.d, the 7k1000.d wins in real world use for everything i've thrown at it.

 

[SickBeast]

Does the lower random seek performance affect games very much?

It's hard to say. It depends on the game for sure.

I do know that my SSD is about twice as fast as a pair of HDDs in RAID-0 when loading games, generally speaking.

HDDs are great for archival of media, but not much else at this point. They're getting faster overall, but the technology is very old and it plateaued some time ago in terms of performance.