RSSHitachi Officially Shipping 1TB Drive
By the Betanews Staff | Published April 27, 2007, 1:08 PM
Hitachi this week announced it has ramped up production on its 1 terabyte hard drive, shipping the unit to retailers across the United States. Pricing for the drive, which spins at 7,200 RPM and features a Serial ATA interface is set at $399 USD.
In order to achieve the record-breaking storage space, Hitachi utilized perpendicular recording, in which bits stand vertical enabling more to be placed on a single platter. The Deskstar 7K1000, a line that Hitachi acquired from IBM, contains five platters. Other features include an 8.5ms seek time, 32MB buffer, and improved shock protection.
They should put 512MB or 1GB cache buffers on the drives instead of just 8MB-16MB-32MB... PC133 speed rated DRAM modules are way more than just fast enough to sustain HDUs bandwidth, it's not that they have to use more expensive DDR,DDR2,DDR3 DRAM.
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|1GB of PC-133 is a lot more expensive then say DDR2-4200. Price it yourself. I can get 1 GB of Pc2-4200 for 80.00 .. New PC-133 (if you can find it new) is $100-$130.00 .
I know those are retail prices but dont think Hitachi makes memory. If this was say Samsung then your idea may work.
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|you cannot, but they however can, as pc133 is still used a large amount. just because the computer ram sticks are unavailable, dont automatically assume that an entirely different type of ram that uses the same speed and chip config is not easily manufactured for use in other things. it is still used a fair amount in printers as built on memory, and iirc handhelds such as palms and axims. as a matter of fact pc133 is cheaper than ever for those uses, but there is not enough demand for pc133 ddr for them to devote an entire factory to it, thus it is in somewhat short of a supply. and besides, keeping it in short supply means they can charge more, right?
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|Can't wait for a Seagate drive! .... oh and can't wait for it to be about $200. $400 is steep, even if it's a whole lotta space.
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|When they can build a drive that can hold every single one of my burned movies in ISO format (about 10,000 of them) then we can talk :)
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|What the? Who has time to watch 10,000 movies?
You need a job, man. =p
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|Netflix ;) I collect movies.. all of them LOL
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|Probably impossible.
Even at the highest account type with netflix, due to the return and exhange rate, you could only get eight movies at a time, up to perhaps as much as 4 times a week ( 1 day to ship out, 1 day to receive -- the most perfect scenario possible ).
Doing quick math that leaves you at 32 movies a week, which make its 1,664 movies in a year. Meaning it would have taken you 6 years to have 10,000 movies ( if using Netflix ).
Of course you could always have more than one account, and have more than 1 person burning movies, and have several computers dedicated to ripping and burning movies.
Still, it seems abit of a stretch that you have 10,000 movies, due to the math part of how long it would take to acquire such a collection.
If you do indeed have such a collection, then i want to borrow some :p.
Latz, SB
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|What would I do with all that space? Oh wait, I think I know. *Linux distros via bittorrent*
LOL
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|You can buy 2 500gb externals for less then 399.00 and externals usually cost more then internals. I think ill wait a bit. Id rather go 2 500gb then a 1 TB drive... Datalose can be a bytch..
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|But the externals will be locked to a transfer rate around ~24MB/s due to being, ya know....external (That darned USB thing).
I'd rather go with 4 1TB drives in a mirrored stripe. But then again, I'd also like to win the lottery. ;)
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|Thats USB.. can go firewire 800 or external sata (not sure of SATA's external speeds, but i know its faster then USB).
Even if it were usb.. whatever your going to put on a 1TB Drive (unless its a server) is going to be music, movies, etc... whats the issue with 24/mb a second?
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|HD movies require some pretty good bandwidth. Either way though you could just rip the hard drives out of their external enclosure and stick 'em in the computer.
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|The only reason I'd need 1TB (And I do), would be for the home server, where most of our data is stored. A lot of file transferring going on there, including backups. I'd much rather be getting ~60MB/s than 25.
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|or you could more than likely get the internal drive for cheaper, as it doesnt have a power supply or data transfer chipset or case.
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|Better wait for the Seagate drive. More reliable and will come with a 5 year warranty.
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|That not true. Hitachi HD is actually more reliable than seagate now a days. Especially in the perpendicular. Do your research more.
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|Now with even more data to lose!
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|At least you'll lose it in style.
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|Bah. Only $1600 to have a striped and mirrored 2GB RAID array.
And really, who *doesn't* have $1600? :p
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|Did you mean 2TB?
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|No.
I dont think so.
I believe he was talking about 2 PLATINUM GB of space ( possibly jewel encrusted ).
Latz, SB
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|TB, GB, ZB...
Only off by a few zeros. :p
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|Platinum is so over-rated. White Gold is where it's at. ;>
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|1 terabyte of perpendicular goodness... mmmm - must get hard drive.
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