January 5, 2007

Yikes! Disk capacity milestone

Want a bit more storage for your desktop? How about One Terabyte for under $400 From Reg Hardware:
Hitachi hails 'industry first' 1TB desktop hard drive
Hitachi has announced what it claims is the world's first 1TB desktop hard drive, pledging to ship the beast later this quarter, with enterprise- and consumer electronics-oriented versions to follow in Q2.

The 3.5in Deskstar 7K1000 will cost $399 at retail, but Hitachi will also offer a cheaper, 750GB model too. The drive spins at 7,200rpm and connects across a 3Gbps SATA bus, though the media data rate peaks at just over 1Gbps. It has 32MB of on-board buffer memory, a 8.7ms average seek time and a 4.17ms average latency.
Hitachi was the company that bought IBM's hard disk capabilities (as Lexmark did their Printers and Chinese company Lenovo did their computer systems). Why did IBM spin off all of these great assets? Still, nice to see that you can get this capacity -- recent hard disk prices have nicely punctured the old one dollar = one gigabyte pricing. We are now looking at one dollar = 2.5 GB (and much faster too) -- very cool! Posted by DaveH at January 5, 2007 10:49 PM
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