Hitachi’s 1 Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed

 Hitachi's new Deskstar 7K1000 is clearly worth recommending for those with huge storage requirements. Its 1 TB represents a 33% increase over Seagate's 750 GB, which is substantial, and it even outperforms the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10. However, it is not the perfect hard drive at all. Performance users should still go for a WD Raptor drive at 10,000 RPM to host the operating system, and add a second 7,200 RPM for storage. In such a case, the 7K1000 is awesome, but it also gets noticeably hotter than other 7,200 RPM drives, so it should be properly cooled for the sake of data safety.