Hitachi Deskstar 0S03208 3TB SATA3 7200RPM 3.5IN Hard Drive Unbagging & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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Welcome to my unbagging of the Hitachi
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Desk Star 3 terbte. This is a 3 terbte
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SATA drive. It runs at 7200 RPMs. That's
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how fast the disc spins. So unlike some of the other three terbte drives on the
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market in this particular price range, this is a full speed desktop drive. So,
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some of the other ones are like um green
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branded drives, whatever the case may be. Meaning that they do spin at a
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slower spindle speed in order to conserve power. Okay, that's one of the
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reasons. And also to provide higher
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yields, but they don't perform quite as well. You can see this guy right here
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was actually wow manufactured in December 2010. So, this is a SATA 3 6 GB
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per second drive running at 7200 RPM and with 3 terb of capacity. So, what's the
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benefit of higher densities? Well, you get to store more as we've known for
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quite some time. You also get better performance because hard drives are a
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physical movement piece of machinery. So, what that means is there's actually
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a drive head moving around on there reading the data. So the closer together
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your data is, the more dense it is, the quicker it can read it because the less
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it has to move to get to that latest piece. So that's one of the reasons that
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increasing drive density has driven up hard drive performance over the years.
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So we've got SATA power back here. SATA
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3 uh 6 GB per second data right there.
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And I just wanted to tell you guys as part of my unboxing actually, well, the
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reason I did this one was because Hitachi has what I consider to be the
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most competitive drive in the market right now in terms of the performance as
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well as the price point. But bear in mind before you buy a 3 TB drive, you
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want to make sure of a couple things. First of all, you can see right here,
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Gigabyte advertises right on the back of their Z68 board 3 TB plus drive support.
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So, not all motherboards are going to support 3 TBTE densities. And the same
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goes for things like external NAS boxes.
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Some of them are going to require firmware updates or even a NASBOX
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upgrade in order to support 3 TBTE
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drives. So, the reason I actually needed some 3 TB drives and I grabbed four of
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them was because I'm going to be using them for my demo of the Javelin S4 media
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server and uh so I had to grab them anyway. So, I figured why not do an
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unboxing. So, there it is, my unboxing. The Hitachi 3 TB drive. Don't forget to
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