The perpendicular recording technology has been recently introduced to the storage devices manufacturing and is featured on all hard drives with the PMR tag. This technology has been forecast to be capable of delivering more than triple the storage density of traditional longitudinal recording. It was highly anticipated, as the longitudinal recording technology was reaching its technological limits.



Hitachi is also among the manufacturers of storage devices that have decided it was time to implement this technology into their product lineup. The Deskstar series was first acquired from IBM's hard drive division and was continued since 2002 by Hitachi under the same name. Deskstar hard drives are meant to deliver storage solutions to mainstream desktop computer users. The flagship model features a total of 1 TB of unformatted disk space on a SATA 3.0 GB/s interface. This is enough to offer enough storage space to users that make use of media libraries or data bases.



The 3.5-inch hard drive can be connected into a RAID configuration if users think the 1 TB of storage space isn't enough. The Desksstar series has a number of possibilities from which users can choose, namely different storage capabilities as well as different interfaces, like SATA and PATA. The 1 TB and 750 GB versions of the Deskstar series feature a total of 32 MB of buffer memory, which will ensure decent access speeds to your stored data. The platters speed is set to standard 7200 RPM. The 7K1000 hard drives are featured to be quite silent with a total of 3.2 decibels in seek mode.



Considering the amount of GB you will get with the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive, the price tag of almost $300 is rather explainable. But how many users do indeed need a 1 TB hard disk is still debatable.