Cold day in Hell: SR has another review!

[drizzt81]

I could not believe my eyes when I saw the recently redesigned SR homepage having a review of a drive shortly after it became available.

Without further blabbering on my behalf:
Hitatchi 7k1000

ps.: the only reason I am so harsh with SR, is because I miss their site being up-to-date.

 

[Farva]

...I don't know why, but 5 platters just rubs me all wrong...

 

[movax]

Wow, huge capacity and they say it beats out/ties the Raptor in single-user apps.

Similarly huge price though. Maybe holiday this year it'll be slightly more reasonable for pr0n storage?

 

[unhappy_mage]

I'm willing to wager the high scores of this drive are due entirely to locality. Since a gigabyte or so for Fear doesn't take up a large percentage of this drive, it means shorter seeks, which means better performance. But hey, if your workload is localized, you're all set

 

[Eickst]

...I don't know why, but 5 platters just rubs me all wrong...

Just means it will die faster. It is a Deskstar, after all.