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QuoteHitachi claims worlds first terabyte drive

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THE STORAGE division of Hitachi said it is introducing the worlds first one terabyte (TB) hard drive.

The Deskstar 7K1000 will ship this quarter at a price of $399, or as Hitachi puts it, at 40 cents a gigabyte.

The firm is also releasing a Cinemastar 1TB drive aimed at the digital video recording market. The Deskstar 1TB drive comes with S-ATA 3Gb/s and P-ATA 133 interfaces. Hitachi said it will introduce an enterprise version of the 1TB drive in the second quarter of this year. Ã,µ

Probably more a paper launch, doubt anyone will actually have these in stock for a while.

Good to see continued improvements. I was concerned that 750Gb might have been it for a while longer.

1Tb is a good round number, dont want to think about reliability issues tho.

At todays (Post Office) forex rate of $1.8472 thatll be Ã,£216 or 21p per Gb. Which is an amazing price. (Obviously itll be shed loads more retail over here.)

The Seagate costs the same here and in the states.

Have to admit Im quite tempted  :mrgreen:  Im sure Seagate will bring out a  1Tb in the coming weeks..

Quote from: sexytwdont want to think about reliability issues tho.

1Tb of data o one disk?  I think I agree with you, its too much data for a single drive.  

people probably said that when 1GB drives cam out. Id wait a few months after the go on sale, so any issues are found by other people, and it gives time for other manufacturers to catch up.

With disks this big I worry about the filesystem coping far more than the drive itself. Handling 2Gb+ filesizes is only just becoming common in software terms, in the grand scheme of things.

NTFS can cope with scarily large arrays, no worries there.

4x 1Tb Drives on RAID. Bugger that would be nuts. Nice tho

Quote from: Poison_UK4x 1Tb Drives on RAID. Bugger that would be nuts. Nice tho

Just think of the problems backing it up though...  :shock:

Defrag anyone?  :mrgreen: