Monday, January 22, 2007
Hitachi Releases Terabyte Hard Drives
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 06:00 AM
"Hitachi Global Storage Technologies showed the first terabyte (TB) hard drive. Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 will begin shipping to retail customers in the first quarter of 2007 at a suggested retail price of $399 (USD), or 40 cents per gigabyte (GB). This new consumer-friendly price makes ultra-high storage capacity more affordable and accessible than ever before. Along with the Deskstar 7K1000 for the retail market, Hitachi is also announcing today a CinemaStar version 1TB hard drive, which provides optimized capabilities specifically designed for digital video recording (DVR) applications. The 3.5-inch, 7200 RPM Parallel-ATA/Serial-ATA hard drives are built on the industry's most reliable perpendicular magnetic recording technology, first established with Hitachi's Travelstar 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch product lines."
In all the CES news, I missed this: we've finally broken the single drive, 1 terabyte (1000 gigabyte) barrier. Slapping two of these in a Windows Home Server product would be slick - and we'll probably see price pressure on the 750 and 500 GB drives, which is a great thing. I'll be interesting to see how they increment this drive upward - 1.2 TB next, or will it jump right to 1.5 TB?
In all the CES news, I missed this: we've finally broken the single drive, 1 terabyte (1000 gigabyte) barrier. Slapping two of these in a Windows Home Server product would be slick - and we'll probably see price pressure on the 750 and 500 GB drives, which is a great thing. I'll be interesting to see how they increment this drive upward - 1.2 TB next, or will it jump right to 1.5 TB?
