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Published: Aug 25, 2009 Author: Niko Lupala Editor: Amber Lupala Provider: Geeks Share this article:

Hitachi 1TB Features....

SSD drives are starting to come in bigger sizes these days but they are still not available in terabytes and when they will be they will cost a fortune. Therefore SATA hard drives are still better when it comes to storage, Geeks.com sent us one of their Hitachi 1 TB "3.5 Internal SATA hard drives for a test. We are going to compare it vs another SATA drive and also vs a SSD drive to give you an idea of its performance. 1TB of space for 84,99$ is quite good though so lets check out the performance.

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Specifications/Features:

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1 TB storage capacity
Serial ATA/300 interface
7200 RPM spindle speed
16 MB buffer
1406 Mbits/s maximum media transfer rate
300 MB/s maximum interface transfer rate
8.5 ms average read seek time
9.2 ms average write seek time
4.17 ms average latency
Advances Power Management reduces power during idle periods
HiVERT technology for best-of-breed power consumption
Thermal Fly-height Control (TFC) for better soft error rate and improved reliability
Head load/unload protects disk during non-operation
ECC and CRC protection enhances data integrity throughout circuits
SMART command transport for adaptive error correction
Internal thermal sensor improves data integrity
Bulk Data Encryption option helps guard against data theft
300,000 load/unload cycles
40 Gs half-sine wave operating shock
300 Gs half-sine wave non-operating shock at 2 ms
3.5-inch form factor

Power Specifications:
5V, 420mA
12V, 700mA

Dimensions:
1.03 x 4 x 5.79-inches (H x W x D, approximate)

Regulatory Approvals:
TUV
CE
C-Tick
MIC
WEEE
BSMI
cULus

The Product:

 
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Nothing special about the packaging, the HDD comes well packed in a box full of foam as it's very sensitive to bumps and drops and we all known alot of shipping companies have problems in this area. The HDD is also packed in a anti static bag to prevent static electricty from ruining the drive.

 
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On the top they have placed the sticker with information about your drive. This is a 16Mb cache version while there are 32Mb ones on the market, so lets have a look at what speeds we can get.