Hitachi Fires Up Second-generation Terabyte Hard Drives

[Guest]

San Jose (CA) - Hitachi renovated its 3.

Hitachi Fires Up Second-generation Terabyte Hard Drives : Read more

 

[Lozil]

Looks good... Going for an upgrade as soon as my Hard drive space tells me your running low...

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[Guest]

So, 1.2 million hour MTBF (= 136.9 years) with only 5-year warranty....
Why not give it a lifetime warranty if they are sooo reliable?

 

[dragunover]

Because people are more likely to fail their motherboard,power supply,or screw it up themselves first

 

[Pei-chen]

[citation][nom]anonymous99[/nom]So, 1.2 million hour MTBF (= 136.9 years) with only 5-year warranty....Why not give it a lifetime warranty if they are sooo reliable?[/citation]
Bookkeeping reason I'd assume. Imaging how it would look if you have a 100 year old liability.

 

[blackened144]

They said at the top of the article that there was no performence increase but in the middle they say that the disk density increased from 200G/platter to 333G/platter. If the platters are still spinning at 7200rpm, how does that not give a performence increase? Is there something Im missing?

 

[beerzombie]

I was wondering the same thing, blackened144. I'm curious if these perform as well as the samsungs, and how the power savings factors into that. If I can get the same performance, and consume less power (and generate less heat/noise) I'd easily opt for these at a slightly higher price (especially w/ the enterprise 5yr warranty/larger buffer option)

I guess we'll have to wait till they're officially reviewed (as this seems like just a press release rehashed)

 

[storageinventor]

Although the density for each platter has increased, the number of platters has decreased. This means that the number of data blocks per cylinder is roughly equivalent.