SAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Apr. 17, 2007 Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) today announced that its Deskstar(TM) 7K1000, the world's first one-terabyte hard disk drive (HDD), was ranked at the top or near the top across the PC World Test Center's test suite. As a result, PC World ranked the Deskstar 7K1000 a top score of "superior" on its tests, calling it a "formidable performer."
This is the first of a series of independent product reviews that showcases the powerful combination of industry-leading capacity and high performance, which Hitachi has brought together in the one-terabyte Deskstar. This milestone product is a 3.5-inch, 7200 RPM hard drive, designed for desktop computers, media-center PCs, gaming machines, digital video recorders, personal storage and other applications requiring ultra-high storage capacities.
"The results of the PC World review provide strong evidence that we have delivered a product with the performance and capacity demanded by today's consumers," Shinjiro Iwata, chief marketing officer, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. "But aside from the unmatched capacity in a single hard drive, the Deskstar 7K1000 represents a technical and cultural milestone that speaks to the revolution we are experiencing in personal data storage today."
The Deskstar 7K1000 began shipping to retailers and online retailers at the end of March 2007, meeting Hitachi's commitment to ship the world's first one-terabyte hard drive to retail customers within the first quarter of 2007. As demonstrated in PC World's test suite, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive delivers superior performance, as well as leadership capacity, to meet the needs of consumers who want to create, share and store their digital information in ever increasing volume.
Citing several testing parameters, PC World Test Center found that the Deskstar 7K1000 was the fastest on a file search test, requiring just 151 seconds to search for a text string in the 11.7GB of content that was placed on the drive. In addition, among the various testing sequences, the Deskstar terabyte HDD tied for the highest marks on the Test Center's ACDSee Test, requiring only 513 seconds to perform scripted tasks like searching and converting files from one format to another.
The Deskstar 7K1000 is built on the industry's most reliable perpendicular magnetic recording technology, allowing Hitachi to extend capacity beyond that available in current 3.5-inch hard drive products. Hitachi's terabyte hard drive features a 3.0Gb/s Serial-ATA (SATA) interface and large 32 MB data buffer to provide the performance required for high-end PC applications.
About Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is a storage technology leader, founded in 2003 through the combination of Hitachi's and IBM's hard disk drive businesses. Hitachi GST enables users to fully engage in the digital lifestyle by providing high-value hard disk storage in formats suitable for the office, on the road and in the home.
With its legacy in hard drive invention, Hitachi GST led the industry in celebrating the storage technology's golden anniversary in 2006. The hard drive has had a profound effect on the computing and consumer electronics industries after five decades of innovation. That heritage lives on at Hitachi GST today through products that define the standard for hard drive miniaturization, capacity, performance and reliability.
With approximately 33,000 employees worldwide, Hitachi GST offers a comprehensive range of hard drive products for desktop computers, high-performance servers, notebooks and consumer devices. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.hitachigst.com
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE:HIT)(TOKYO:6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 356,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2005 (ended March 31, 2006) consolidated sales totaled 9,464 billion yen ($80.9 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com
