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Hitachi launched its second-generation one terabyte hard drive, the Deskstar 7K1000.B. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced the 1TB Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive in January 2007. Fast forward a year and a half, and the company The second generation terabyte hard drive is here. Wondering whats different from the "first-generation"? Well, according to Hitachi, its second generation Deskstar

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced the 1TB Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive in January 2007. Fast forward a year and a half, and the company is back with not a larger version of the drive but a more efficient model in the Deskstar 7K1000.B. Like its predecessor, the 7K1000.B is a 3.5-inch, 7,200rpm hard drive that serves up 1TB of storage space and a 32MB buffer. It hits that magic terabyte mark, however, by using only three disks–down from the five-disk design of the older 1TB drive. It also borrows from Hitachi’s 2.5-inch mobile drives and includes Bulk Data Encryption.

As the amount of digital information created, captured and duplicated continues to grow at an uninterrupted, unrelenting pace, Hitachi’s aim that the three elements of media content, culture, and increasing capacity, are uniting to create an entirely new landscape for enterprise and consumer data storage. It is against this backdrop that Hitachi is announcing the Deskstar 7K1000.B, its energy-efficient 7,200 RPM one terabyte (1TB) hard drive.

The Deskstar 7K1000.B provides a blend of power efficiency and performance, making it ideal solution for power-friendly consumer and commercial PCs. The new three-disk design improves idle power consumption up to 43 percent over its 1TB predecessor, which was among the industry’s most energy efficient hard drives. Increased protection against data loss and piracy is provided through Bulk Data Encryption (BDE), which is available as an optional feature to users. Hitachi is also shipping the Deskstar E7K1000, designed to provide high-capacity storage for low-duty-cycle, 24×7 applications.

Key Features

Size: 3.5-inch Capacities: 1TB 750GB 640GB 500GB 320GB 250GB 160GB Speed: 7200 RPM Interfaces: SATA 3Gb/s Idle Power: 3.6W (<320GB) 4.4W (500-750GB) 5.2W (1TB)

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