Welcome to my unbagging of the Hitachi
Desk Star 3 terbte. This is a 3 terbte
SATA drive. It runs at 7200 RPMs. That's
how fast the disc spins. So unlike some of the other three terbte drives on the
market in this particular price range, this is a full speed desktop drive. So,
some of the other ones are like um green
branded drives, whatever the case may be. Meaning that they do spin at a
slower spindle speed in order to conserve power. Okay, that's one of the
reasons. And also to provide higher
yields, but they don't perform quite as well. You can see this guy right here
was actually wow manufactured in December 2010. So, this is a SATA 3 6 GB
per second drive running at 7200 RPM and with 3 terb of capacity. So, what's the
benefit of higher densities? Well, you get to store more as we've known for
quite some time. You also get better performance because hard drives are a
physical movement piece of machinery. So, what that means is there's actually
a drive head moving around on there reading the data. So the closer together
your data is, the more dense it is, the quicker it can read it because the less
it has to move to get to that latest piece. So that's one of the reasons that
increasing drive density has driven up hard drive performance over the years.
So we've got SATA power back here. SATA
3 uh 6 GB per second data right there.
And I just wanted to tell you guys as part of my unboxing actually, well, the
reason I did this one was because Hitachi has what I consider to be the
most competitive drive in the market right now in terms of the performance as
well as the price point. But bear in mind before you buy a 3 TB drive, you
want to make sure of a couple things. First of all, you can see right here,
Gigabyte advertises right on the back of their Z68 board 3 TB plus drive support.
So, not all motherboards are going to support 3 TBTE densities. And the same
goes for things like external NAS boxes.
Some of them are going to require firmware updates or even a NASBOX
upgrade in order to support 3 TBTE
drives. So, the reason I actually needed some 3 TB drives and I grabbed four of
them was because I'm going to be using them for my demo of the Javelin S4 media
server and uh so I had to grab them anyway. So, I figured why not do an
unboxing. So, there it is, my unboxing. The Hitachi 3 TB drive. Don't forget to
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