First terabyte hard drive launched
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has unveiled the industry’s first terabyte hard drive. When it appears in shops in the next few months, the Deskstar 7K1000 will have a suggested retail price of $399 or 40cents per gigabyte.
Alongside the Deskstar 7K1000, Hitachi is also introducing a CinemaStar version of the terabyte drive, a device designed specifically for digital video recording applications. This will allow viewers to store and retrieve almost 250 hours of high definition programming.
“The industry’s first terabyte hard drive represents a milestone that is 50 years in the making, and it reasserts the hard drive’s leadership as the highest capacity, lowest cost storage technology,” said Shinjiro Iwata, chief marketing officer for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
