Hitachi Refreshes its 1TB HD Offer

If Hitachi was the first manufacturer to release a 3.5’’ HD featuring 1 TB of storage space, all its competitors have to date introduced similar models.
One a more technical point of view the previous model featured 5 plates of 200 GB each, while the new model is now built on 3 plates of 375 GB. As a consequence, this new drive will drain only 50% of the power required by the older model in idle mode.
Without being a revolution, as Hitachi adopts larger plate for its HD as some other HD manufacturers did it too, it illustrates the growing importance for power efficiency for HD too. It is both a marketing factor, as well as an important feature to be prepare to fight against the SSDs known for consuming less power when performing the same task than traditional HD. The new Hitachi 1 TB model will be named Deskstar 7K1000.B and should be available this month at an unknown price.