Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 (3TB)

[SileX]

Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 (3TB)

Is it quiet?

http://www.hitachigst.com/internal-driv ... tar-7k3000
http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib. ... 000_ds.pdf

[SleepyBum]

Nice spot... but I'd be more interested in the Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 series

Glad to see finally Hitachi introducing some green class drives. I don't buy 7200 rpm HDs these days, since I only use for media/storage. Haven't bought a desktop Hitachi/IBM drive since the 60GXP/75GXP fiasco. But will be interested if these are quiet, cool running, and priced right.

* Looking at the specs... doesn't show the platter count. I really hope they're using 4x 750GB platters, and not 5x 600GB platters for the 3TB drive.
* Specs also says 512 sector size, using long LBA vs 4k sector.
wonder if it uses 4k sectors internally though...
* Rotational Speed (RPM) CoolSpin a la WD's IntelliPower... Grggrgrgr... I'd wish they just publish the exact speed.
* Load/Unload Cycles, 3TB: 600,000, <3TB: 300,000. Hope it doesn't have the 8 second load/off-load timer like WD
* info about using drive above 2TB

There's also the Deskstar 5K1000, which looks like to be based on 500GB platters.

Anyways, glad to see more green/storage drives coming to the market.

[axis]

7200 RPM won't be very quiet.

[Eunos]

According to Storage Review, it is a 5 platter drive.

http://www.storagereview.com/3tb_hitach ... y_released

Cheers.

[SleepyBum]

According to Storage Review, it is a 5 platter drive.

600GB platters would make for weird configuration for the 2TB and 1.5TB models.

3.5 * 600GB = 2100GB
2.5 * 600GB = 1500GB

Would be a waste to be using like 3-platters and 5-heads, unless they have a lot of bad platters. Or they could be using 500GB platters for the 2TB and 1.5TB models. We shall see how aggressively they price these.