Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive

[zippyjuan]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20070405051228.html

Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive.
Hitachi’s 1000GB HDD Available in Japan

Category: Storage

by Anton Shilov

[ 04/05/2007 | 05:13 AM ]





Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has started to ship its 1TB hard disk drives (HDDs) introduced early this year commercially. But the hard drive that represents a milestone in desktop data storage costs a little less than two times higher compared to slightly less capacious one, which makes it not very affordable.

Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 model features five 250GB platters and ten heads, has 7200rpm motor as well as 32MB data buffer. The manufacturer claims that the drive has 8.5ms read seek time, 9.2ms write seek time and 1070Mb/s (133.75MB/s) maximum media transfer rate. Currently the company ships 1TB hard disk drive with Serial ATA-300 interface, but a model with Parallel ATA interface is also expected to be available.

Hitachi’s 1TB hard disk drive indisputably represents a milestone in desktop storage, as only ten years ago the world’s most capacious hard disk drive was 16.7GB IBM Deskstar, whereas 1GB landmark in desktops was achieved in 1995. But, it appears, end-users will have to pay a significant premium to acquire the product that reached 1TB milestone.

Currently Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard disk drives with 1TB capacity are available in Japan for ¥51 500 - ¥55980 ($433 - $470), much higher compared to Seagate Barracuda 750GB, which retails for ¥29400 - ¥39660 ($247 - $333) in Tokyo, according to Akiba PC Hotline web-site. The recommended price of the 1TB drive from Hitachi for the U.S. is $399, whereas Seagate’s 750GB product costs starting from $249 in the country.

[ShawnLee]

I remember when the idea of having a GB in my computer boggled the mind.

I suspect that in time, G|A? will have threads talking about personal TB drives and how some new configuration for them is going to maximize the use of them, or somesuch. Nice.

[shocky123]

I jumped onto the bandwagon when Hitachi was the first team to release the 500GB drives, and was shocked and amazed to have about 60% of the drives we ordered for work (~20) show up either DOA or crippled to the point where they were unusable from manufacturing defects or something.. Hitachi's since fixed the problems I'm sure, they are a solid company, and I wouldnt have a problem buying from them again I'm certain... However, I wont hit up a 'new' drive until I see a solid 5 year warranty attached to it, thats practically and industry standard anymore....
Did anyone else see a warranty on this drive?

[zippyjuan]

It comes with their standard three year warranty. If you are interested in more specs, here is the officlal site (PDF format):
http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/67A68C59B27368FC862572570080FC70/$file/Deskstar7K1000_010307_final.pdf

[Paymaster]

Don't they mean "976 Gigabytes"? :)

Actually the spec sheet says this:

1 GB equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity;

So maybe it is truly 1 Terabyte?

[redcolours]

nice.

no wonder the 500GB drives have come down in price.

The eagle has landed.

[ray]

I picked up an external 1TB drive a couple months ago. It's fantastic.

[Devhux]

I picked up an external 1TB drive a couple months ago. It's fantastic.

The only 1TB drives a few months ago would have been an enclosure with 2 x 500GB drives (maybe in a RAID 0 array to "appear" as 1TB. Hitachi is the first to come out with a single drive that hits 1TB capacity.

[ray]

The only 1TB drives a few months ago would have been an enclosure with 2 x 500GB drives (maybe in a RAID 0 array to "appear" as 1TB. Hitachi is the first to come out with a single drive that hits 1TB capacity.

Yeah, when I originally posted I wasn't really thinking that this was the first 1TB capacity single drive. my bad.