Hitachi’s 1 Terabyte Drive
It looks like Hitachi’s gonna beat Seagate to the gate on releasing their 1 Tb (Terabyte) Drive.
It seems the day of the 1-terabyte consumer hard drive has finally become a reality. Hitachi announced yesterday, just before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, that it will be shipping a 1TB hard drive by the end of the first quarter in 2007. The drive will be the first of three that the company is expecting to release in 2007;
The 3.5″ Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 will run at 7200 rpm, have a 32MB buffer, and be available as SATA 3.0Gb/s or Parallel-ATA 133.
The company did not max out on areal density on the drives though; instead of trying to cram 250GB (like Seagate has) onto four platters, Hitachi opted to go with a 200GB-per-platter, five-platter approach.
These new drives use Perpendicular Recording, which has been around for a few years (apparently) but is really coming into play now as it facilitates increasing capacity up to 5 (ish) times. For those lost in the bit/byte world, take your standard 80-100 gigabyte drive that comes in a computer today and multiply it by 10. This particular drive will run around $399 bucks.
I can’t imagine needing one of these drives anytime soon; but I think it’s interesting to keep up with whats new in this field. Imagine formatting this damn thing?!
January 7th, 2007 at 1:37 am
At first I read your title of the entry wrong cause I am tired. I thought it said Hibachi. haha I thought well I knew he wanted to eat there but man it was deserving of an entry. I think I should go to bed now huh?
January 7th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Me thinks “Quick Format” is your friend.