Suhit Gupta
05-11-2004, 09:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115839,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115839,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp</a><br /><br /></div>"Hitachi's deskstar 7K400 ($400) is the new king of big: The 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive comes with an 8MB buffer and a staggering 400GB of storage. The reasonably priced drive, available now, also features improved digital-media handling capabilities. In our tests it performed exceptionally well on standard desktop applications, too.<br /><br />To reach 400GB in the new model, Hitachi essentially slipped two more 80GB platters into its 250GB Deskstar 7K250--the fastest hard drive we have tested to date."<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/400gb_hitachi.jpg" /><br /><br />"The drive is not only speedy; Hitachi says it also excels at streaming video--a key function of set-top, TiVo-like boxes and of PCs used as digital video recorders--thanks to its new Streaming Command Set." Ok, now we seriously need the drool icon. This is a boon for all folks look to make their large RAID fileserver or build their own digital media servers. No precise benchmarks or availability date yet.