Post - Hitachi Creates the World's First Terabyte Hard Drive
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CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW 2007, LAS VEGAS – January 5, 2007 – Consumers' ability to store video, photos, music and other valued data will reach new heights as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced the industry's first terabyte (TB) hard drive. Delivering superior performance and reliability, as well as capacity, Hitachi's 1TB hard drive meets the needs of consumers who want to create, share and store their digital information, and lots of it. 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.
Maximizing Value - The "Smart" Hard Drive
Hitachi is focused on maximizing the value of the hard drive by spearheading the era of the "smart" hard drive. Customized features have been incorporated into Hitachi's hard drives, tailoring them for the application-set that they serve. To that end, Hitachi's 1TB hard drives are targeted to two distinct application areas:
Deskstar 7K1000 – gaming and high-performance PCs, external storage devices and upgrade applications
SATA 3.0Gb/s and PATA-133 interfaces
Ramp load design for increased shock protection
Three low-power idle modes to boost power efficiency
CinemaStar 7K1000 – DVR applications
Adaptive error recovery and SMART command transport for optimized video streaming and picture quality
Smooth Stream Technology to optimize the drive for audio/video applications requiring reliable storage
"Bedroom quiet" acoustics
Finally, an enterprise version of the TB drive designed for lower duty-cycle, high-capacity enterprise environments is currently under evaluation at major OEM customers and is expected to be available in the second quarter.
Well, well... I sure could use all that space and quite cheap too at 40 cents a gig. I wonder when it is going to appear in store shelves? I still have my first HD with me (retired of course), a 540.0 MB Western Digital Caviar 2540...
Yeah, that would be nice to have one.
Have no idea at all what will I do with all that space, but just telling my friends I've got a whole Terabyte of space on my HDD is worth the money
