Hitachi Aims To Beat Seagate To Market With 1TB HDD

Hitachi Aims To Beat Seagate To Market With 1TB HDD

Daniel Fleshbourne on 05 January 2007 - 16:40 · 10 comments & 4111 views

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A day after rival Seagate Technology announced plans to ship a 1-Tbyte hard drive in the first half of this year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies said it would release its first 1-Tbyte drive within three months. Hitachi said Friday that at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it will demonstrate the 1-Tbyte Deskstar 7K1000 drive, slated to ship in the first quarter and carry a street price of $399. Hitachi also said it would ship a CinemaStar version of the drive that's optimized for digital video recorder (DVR) applications.

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#1 +CrimsonRedMk on 05 Jan 2007 - 17:45

Dude...$399 for 1TB...
*drools imagining RAID with several 1TB drives*

#2 Davo on 05 Jan 2007 - 18:33

That seems pretty cheap, no?

#3 IntelliMoo on 05 Jan 2007 - 18:34

Has to be cheap these days, or the hd market will die again. lol
So how do ya optimize an hd for dvr software? hmmm Newest marketing gimmicks rule!

(1 reply) #4 billyea on 05 Jan 2007 - 19:11

With 1TB, I seriously doubt it'd be all used before your hard drive dies out.

#4.1 Drimacus on 05 Jan 2007 - 20:36

it would only take me a couple of months to fill it up

but i'd rather buy a seagate...

(1 reply) #5 +sLm4ever on 05 Jan 2007 - 22:21

the bigger the HDDs get ..... the louder your scream will be when it's broken

Last edited by sLm4ever on 06 Jan 2007 - 05:32

#5.1 Chugworth on 06 Jan 2007 - 00:17

Exactly! If you're going for a hard drive that big, you really should run it in RAID1 or RAID5, since it's not so easy to backup 1TB of data right now.

#6 winmoose on 06 Jan 2007 - 12:48

1000 GB sounds better.

#7 hardgiant on 07 Jan 2007 - 00:16

I'd rather have two 500's or four 250's, but I welcome this release because it will drive the prices down.

#8 MaceX on 07 Jan 2007 - 04:50

And to think... I started out with a 45MB drive lol.

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