Quote: Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 will go on sale in the first quarter of 2007 for $399. That comes to about 40 cents a gigabyte. The Deskstar 7K1000 will come in both an internal version, aimed at high end gamers and high performance desktop PC users, and an external device, mostly for backing up lots of files. Future versions also include a CinemaStar version specifically designed for digital video recorders, due out in the second quarter, and an enterprise version, due out in the second quarter as well, but whose name is not yet released.Sounds good.
The First 1 Terabyte Hard Drive
January 05, 2007 09:59 PM
Breaking news: Hitachi Heralds 1TB Hard Drive, Hitachi's hefty hard drive, Here comes the terabyte hard drive, ...
To stitch some of those reports together:
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January 05, 2007 10:29 PM
Quote:
Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 will go on sale in the first quarter of 2007 for $399. That comes to about 40 cents a gigabyte. The Deskstar 7K1000 will come in both an internal version, aimed at high end gamers and high performance desktop PC users software/music/movie pirates and porn addicts, and an external device, mostly for backing up lots of files. Future versions also include a CinemaStar version specifically designed for digital video recorders, due out in the second quarter, and an enterprise version, due out in the second quarter as well, but whose name is not yet released.
fixed.
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January 05, 2007 10:38 PM
to quote myself from IRC; I'll take two please.
I'm infact pretty serious about that as well, I'm an information fiend, I hate deleting things and the loss of data is my worse nightmare, so two of these in raid would be nice [grin]
I'm infact pretty serious about that as well, I'm an information fiend, I hate deleting things and the loss of data is my worse nightmare, so two of these in raid would be nice [grin]
January 05, 2007 10:52 PM
Seagate announced a 1 TB drive coming early this year several months ago. I don't know if it's Q1, but it should be fairly soon.
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January 05, 2007 11:21 PM
* adds to wishlist, glancing over at the spools of DVD+R hatefully.
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January 05, 2007 11:40 PM
Seagate is planning on releasing a 40TB harddisk within a few years...but as I understand it, the technology involves heating lasers and platinum: it won't be cheap.
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January 06, 2007 09:35 AM
Wow. I just got a 60gb hard drive, and even that is big enough for me.
A TB harddrive...I wonder how many people would be able to fill that.
A TB harddrive...I wonder how many people would be able to fill that.
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January 06, 2007 04:28 PM
Quote: Original post by SticksandStones
Wow. I just got a 60gb hard drive, and even that is big enough for me.
A TB harddrive...I wonder how many people would be able to fill that.
You'd be suprised how easy it is to fill up with porn!
Are you serious since my main 74GB raptor drive only has 4GB free after installing just VS2005,MSDN full documentation,Office 2003,Platform SDK,Direct SDK and other programming tools!
I have a second 400GB drive and that's one full too just with all my flight sim stuff and addons. You know Flight simulator X by itself is like a 15GB intall. After that after installing all my other games Quake4,Fry Cry,dungeon siege1,2,Civ 4,Oblivion,Titan Quest,etc I"m already out of space...
And that doesn't even include backups which I have a 500GB drive for and that's already full if I plan on keeping more than 1 backup image at a time.
[Edited by - daviangel on January 6, 2007 6:28:56 PM]
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January 06, 2007 04:43 PM
Personally, I tend to not be impressed by ever greater capacities for hard drives. It seems to mainly allow packrats to accumulate ever greater quantities of worthless junk. Oh boy, 250 hours of my favorite HDTV shows or 2k hours of regular TV programming. There has to be a better way, as a society, than 500k people recording General Hospital every day. I'm more interested in where things like Comcasts OnDemand and Straz Vongo go.
There is certainly a place for such drives, but they don't really allow dramatic new applications. The 1050Mb/s max data rate is impressive, but it doesn't allow applications routinely accessing gigabytes of data. At best it would take you ten seconds to access a GB and more likely 15-20 seconds. A 1TB drive doesn't perform much better than a 160GB or 250GB drive and four 250GB drives can completely blow a single 1TB drive out of the water. I would like to see innovation that actually increased performance. I would like to see innovations like multiple heads per platter arrayed around the drive so that a single drive can perform like multiple drives today.
There is certainly a place for such drives, but they don't really allow dramatic new applications. The 1050Mb/s max data rate is impressive, but it doesn't allow applications routinely accessing gigabytes of data. At best it would take you ten seconds to access a GB and more likely 15-20 seconds. A 1TB drive doesn't perform much better than a 160GB or 250GB drive and four 250GB drives can completely blow a single 1TB drive out of the water. I would like to see innovation that actually increased performance. I would like to see innovations like multiple heads per platter arrayed around the drive so that a single drive can perform like multiple drives today.
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January 06, 2007 04:51 PM
Quote: Original post by LilBudyWizer
Personally, I tend to not be impressed by ever greater capacities for hard drives. It seems to mainly allow packrats to accumulate ever greater quantities of worthless junk. Oh boy, 250 hours of my favorite HDTV shows or 2k hours of regular TV programming. There has to be a better way, as a society, than 500k people recording General Hospital every day. I'm more interested in where things like Comcasts OnDemand and Straz Vongo go.
There is certainly a place for such drives, but they don't really allow dramatic new applications. The 1050Mb/s max data rate is impressive, but it doesn't allow applications routinely accessing gigabytes of data. At best it would take you ten seconds to access a GB and more likely 15-20 seconds. A 1TB drive doesn't perform much better than a 160GB or 250GB drive and four 250GB drives can completely blow a single 1TB drive out of the water. I would like to see innovation that actually increased performance. I would like to see innovations like multiple heads per platter arrayed around the drive so that a single drive can perform like multiple drives today.
I use to be the same way. Back when I go my first 20 MB hard drive, I was like, "Hey, I can install every piece of software I have, and still have loads of room left over". I do agree about performance though. I'd be comfortable with 100 GB hard drive that was 5x faster than my current ones.
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