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welcome to my unbagging of the hitachi desk star 3 terabyte this is a 3 terabyte SATA drive it runs at 7200 RPM that's how fast the disc spins so unlike some of the other three terabyte drives on the market in this particular price range this is a full speed desktop drive so some of the other ones are like lean branded drives whatever the case may be meaning that they do spin at a slower spindle speed in order to conserve power and that's one of the reasons and also to provide higher yields but they don't perform quite as well you can see this guy right here was actually Wow manufactured in December 2010 so this is a SATA 3 6 gigabit per second drive running at 7200 RPM and with 3 terabytes of capacity so what's the benefit of higher densities well you get to store more as we've known for quite some time you also get better performance because hard drives are a physical movement piece of machinery so what that means is there's actually a drive head moving around on there reading the data so the closer together your data is the more dense it is the quicker it can read it because the less it has to move to get to that latest piece so that's one of the reasons that increasing drive density has driven up hard drive performance over the years so we've got SATA power back here SATA 3 6 gigabit per second data right there and I just wanted to tell you guys as part of my unboxing actually well the reason I did this one was because Hitachi has what I consider to be the most competitive drive in the market right now in terms of the performance as well as the price point but bear in mind before you buy a three terabyte drive you want to make sure of a couple things first of all you can see right here gigabyte advertises right on the back of their z68 board 3 terabyte + drive support so not all motherboards are going to support 3 terabyte densities and the same goes for things like external nas boxes some of them are going to require firmware updates or even a nice box upgrade in order to support 3 terabyte drives so the reason I asked we needed some three terabyte drives and I grabbed four of them was because I'm going to be using them for my demo of the javelin s4 media server and so I had to grab them anyway so I figured why not do an unboxing so there it is my unboxing Hitachi 3 terabyte drive don't forget to subscribe cleanse tech tips