Hitachi Intros Deskstar 7K and 5K Hard Drives with 3 TB Capacities

[btarunr]

Hitachi listed two of its new mammoth-capacity hard drives on its website, the Deskstar 7K3000 and Deskstar 5K3000. These drives are available in capacities of up to 3 TB; 2 TB and 1 TB variants are also available. The drives have spindle speeds of 7200 rpm (for the 7K3000) and 5400 rpm (for the 5K3000). Available in the 3.5-inch form factor, these drives use the SATA 6 Gb/s interface, but are backwards compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s and 1.5 Gb/s. The 7K3000 uses a 64 MB cache, while the 5K3000 makes do with 32 MB. Both drives have default sector sizes of 512 bytes. The company is yet to reveal pricing.



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[Munki]

I've always been sketchy about large storage devices. Do we know how many platters are in the 3tb HDDs?

 

[Cheeseball]

For the WD Caviar Green 3TBs, it's 4-platters.

 

[timta2]

Since the older 72K2000s (2TB) have 5 platters I'm guessing these do too. I doubt it would be more space with less platters.

I have 2 of the 72K2000s and they have been damn good drives in the year I've had them. They seem to be really popular as well.

 

[Lipton]

5 platters (600 GB) compared to WDs 4 platters (750 GB).

These might cost less, though.