The news
The computer world has been watching and waiting for the launch of the first one terabyte (1TByte) hard disk drive and it's now in sight, Hitachi having promised at CES 2007 to introduce the Deskstar 7K1000 before the end of March at a suggested price in the USA of $399.
Hitachi says this represents a cost of 40 cents per GByte, though by most people's calculations, the figure would be about 43 cents, since the formatted capacity of the new drive is likely to be nearer 930GByte than 1000 - makers of disk drives using a different way of measuring to everyone else! Oh, and for us Brits, that translates to around 22p per gig at the current dollar<>pound exchange rate.
Whatever the 7K1000's real capacity, it's massive, so this 3.5in/7,200rpm drive - available in SATA 3.0Gbit/s and PATA-133 versions - is going to be widely welcomed.
Perhaps the best reception at CES, though, will go to the news that Hitachi is launching in the second quarter of the year the CinemaStar 7K1000 - a follow-up model of the same size and capacity, intended for use in personal video recorders.
So, how do you fancy a 1TByte drive in your PVR or a brace of them in your PC? Check out what Hitachi says about the new drives on page two and share your thoughts in the HEXUS.community.
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