Hitachi 1TB HD: A New Reference?

Anandtech could test the new Hitachi HD 3.5" 1TB 7200rpm. This HD is based on 5 plates of 200GB each, making it the biggest HD model. It uses perpendicular recording and features a 32MB cache.
If you imagine that such a large storage capacity would have a negative impact on performance, then you are wrong! The 7K1000 has performance levels very close to those obtained with a Raptor 150!
In addition, the 7K1000 is reported as a rather silent HD, so it could quickly become a "must have" HS, and a favorite BTO option for numerous hardware.
Last but not least, the real capacity once formatted is "only" 930GB. The price should be US$399 (probably the same in euro).