Hitachi announced their latest 2nd generation 1 Terabyte HDD, the Deskstar 7K1000.B, which claims to be the most energy efficient 1TB 7,200 RPM hard drive in the world.

The drive’s main feature is the use of three platters which can store up to 374GB of data each. With only three platters, the drive’s  idle power consumption is reduced up to 43% compared to Hitachi’s first generation 1TB HDD. The 7K1000.B also offers users the option of bulk data encryption (BDE) for the entire contents of the drive.

Below are the drive’s few specs:

  •  7,200 rpm
  • 1TB capacity
  • 3 Gb/s SATA interface
  • 32 MB buffer
  • 1.2 million hours Mean Time Between Failure
  • Rotational Vibration Safeguard

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