Hitachi becomes first to ship 1 Terabyte Hard Drive

eddie · 03-05-2007, 11:53 PM

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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) today announced that it has met its commitment to begin shipping the world’s first one-terabyte hard drive (HDD) to retail customers within the first quarter of 2007. The Deskstar 7K1000 began shipping to retailers and e-tailers in March 2007 with inventories reaching critical mass in April 2007. CDW is among the first organizations to make the terabyte hard drive available to customers. More information is located at www.cdw.com/storage.

Announced at CES 2007, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive delivers superior performance and reliability, as well as leadership capacity, to meet the needs of consumers who want to create, share and store their digital information in ever increasing volume. At a suggested retail price of $399 (USD), colossal storage capacity is more affordable than ever before.

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Technical Specifications:

Deskstar 7K1000

1000/750 GB – SATA (GB = 1 billion bytes, accessible capacity may be less)
148 billion bits per square inch maximum areal density
1070 Mb/s max. media data rate
8.5 ms average seek time (excludes command overhead)
7,200 RPM, 4.17 ms average latency
Serial-ATA 3.0Gb/s
32 MB data buffer
26.1 mm in height (max)
700g in weight (max)
5/4 platters, 10/8 recording heads
300 G/1 ms pulse non-operating shock
9.0 (5 disk)/8.1 (4 disk) watt idle power
2.9 Bels typical idle acoustics
5-60 degrees C operating temperature

04-05-2007, 12:04 AM

I hope it will cost atleast 5000Rs

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eddie · 04-05-2007, 01:06 AM

5000? Yeah...I would immediately have 3 of those

goobimama · 04-05-2007, 03:07 AM

^^ What would you do with three of those might I ask?

And thunderbird here mentions "at least 5000rs". I'm sure it will be AT LEAST 5000 bucks...

..:: Free Radical ::.. · 04-05-2007, 03:15 AM

$399 (₨ 16,420)

praka123 · 04-05-2007, 03:37 AM

haff!Now i can back up in future from My >16TB datas in My ext4 GNU/linux file system

Harvik780 · 04-05-2007, 03:50 AM

Well I'm thinking up of saving a whole human being on that one.Will be better than nitrogen freezing a human DNA.

abhi.eternal · 04-05-2007, 08:39 AM

Seagate also to launch 1TB HDD (http://crunchgear.com/2007/01/04/sea...e-coming-soon/)

Zeeshan Quireshi · 04-05-2007, 02:53 PM

better to RAID 4 250 GB or 300GB hdd's , that'll be much more cheaper n a hell lot faster .

04-05-2007, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ..:: Free Radical ::..

$399 (₨ 16,420)

When it comes to india it will cost around 20000 to 30000.

aryayush · 04-05-2007, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ..:: Free Radical ::..

$399 (₨ 16,420)

Direct conversion does not even give you a rough estimate of the price. For all we know, it could end up costing double that price in India. So, does anyone know the Indian price of this one? Is it there in India yet?

I am in the market for a 1 TB drive and am heavily leaning in favour of the Western Digital MyBook Pro. They have specially been designed to complement MacBook Pros and Mac Pros. But it would cost somewhere around Rs. 27,000 which is quite expensive. And that too, I have to find a way of having it bought in and shipped from Goa, because it is a lot more expensive in Kolkata.

..:: Free Radical ::.. · 04-05-2007, 04:14 PM

^ hey. I just converted to put things in perspective for @thunderbird.117
I know the stupid markets in India

goobimama · 04-05-2007, 04:36 PM

Hey aayush, why don't you go in for two 500GB drives which will come to around 18k (though they would have only FW400 on them). Maybe glue them together to make em look like a 1TB drive...

abhi.eternal · 04-05-2007, 08:28 PM

^what abt the width?

aryayush · 04-05-2007, 11:42 PM

You haven't seen how wide the 1 TB hard drives are.

@goobimama, LOL!

FireWire 800 is an absolute must and I really don't want to own three external hard drives.

eddie · 05-05-2007, 02:01 AM

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Originally Posted by goobimama

^^ What would you do with three of those might I ask?

And thunderbird here mentions "at least 5000rs". I'm sure it will be AT LEAST 5000 bucks...

Considering the thing that I am filling out my almost 1 TB space (500 + 3x160) with no more free SATA ports left on my board...it would be great to upgrade to two 1 TB disks with 1 TB solely as backup

...and yeah it will definitely cost AT LEAST 5000 but i was just hoping against hope

escape7 · 05-05-2007, 09:33 PM

This will be good for network in schools and small offices which share hard disks

goobimama · 06-05-2007, 12:10 AM

Talking of sharing HDD space, anyone know if there is a casing available for NAS? Or what's the best option for a branded NAS these days (in a small quantity of around 200GB)...