This is the world's first 1TB hard drive from Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000. The 1TB Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive is based on vertical recording technology, has 5 discs and 10 heads, or 100GB on each side.

The hard disk uses SATA 3Gbps or PATA-133 interface, a speed of 7200RPM, an average latency (latency) of 4.17ms, an average seek time of 8.7ms, a SATA version cache of 32MB, a maximum data transfer rate of 1070Mb/s, a maximum height of 26.1mm, a maximum mass of 700g, and idle power consumption of 9.0W. At a typical size, a 1TB hard drive can store 250,000 MP3 songs, 358 movies, 1000 hours of video, 3.333 million photos, or more than 500 games.