1TB (THATS RIGHT! 1,000 GB)Harddrive from Hitachi!

[Zambini]

Hitachi's 7K1000 Terabyte Hard Drive | Tom's Hardware

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-Zam

On March 16, 2007, UPS delivered to our storage test lab a shipment from Hitachi, which we had anticipated for several weeks. The box contained the world's first hard drive with a total capacity of 1 terabyte (1 TB): the Deskstar 7K1000.





The new drive is a milestone for both Hitachi and the hard drive industry. Not only is it the first product to store up to 1,000 gigabytes on a single hard drive - beating Seagate to the market - but it also comes with a number of innovations. In addition to its Serial ATA II interface, it is the first hard drive that carries as much as 32 MB of cache memory, and it is Hitachi's first 3.5" drive to implement perpendicular magnetic recording technology (PMR). The company had deployed PMR in its Travelstar 5K160 family, but not into desktop drives. Hitachi's data sheet also lists various features that help to increase reliability and reduce power consumption.




To reach the high capacity of 1 TB, Hitachi had to increase the areal density of the storage media in its new drive. Its predecessor, the Deskstar T7K500, is based on three magnetic platters that store approximately 166 GB each, while the new 7K1000 is based on five platters at approximately 200 GB each. Seagate is currently preparing its 1 TB drive on a four platter design. Hitachi has already had hard drives with five platters in the past, and such a configuration is fairly common for enterprise hard drives as well. Although the PMR recording technology is mature enough to store far beyond 200 GB on a platter, Hitachi decided to stay on this conservative course.

OMG!

This is rediculus. I heard that estimated price will be around $400
$399.00 on EXCaliberPC.com

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[Django]

1000GB of storage..........dang. What is the rpm of those hdds??
can imagine the time it takes for a/v to scan such a big hdd.

[Dr. V]

1TB IS HUGE!

i want it!

no id rather have two 500GB for like $150 each...

~cheers

[Zambini]

Yea. Thats exactly what I said when I saw it.
But the good news is that the price of those 500's and the 750's will go down substantially because there is a new big boy in town :)

[screwballl]

why not go with 3x 400GB drives at $80 apiece? granted it is the 7200.9 but if all you need is storage, thats the best bet

[Jokerswild]

I have a 320 gig thats not even close to full, 1TB is of no use here.

[wtcnbrwndo4u]

1TB for $400... that's pretty good!

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by screwballl

why not go with 3x 400GB drives at $80 apiece? granted it is the 7200.9 but if all you need is storage, thats the best bet

Hell ya, thats a whopping 1.2tb for $240.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good one Screwballl

[WhiteEagle]

In dollars per MB it works out to $0.0004....that's a very good deal!

[Zambini]

lol. I was trying to figure out the cost per gig of other hard drives and I was like "Why the heck do they keep coming out to about $.10-$.40 per gig?"

Then I re-read your post and realized its in MB not gb =/

$.40 a gig for the 1000gb drive
(Top selling 400-750gb hard drive on Newegg.com clicked through that little button just above this post)
$.24 a gig
(Top selling 250-320gb hard drive on Newegg.com clicked through that little button just above this post)
$.31 a gig

odd =/

It is kinda hyperbolic if U graph the price v gbs