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Hitachi pushes out 1TB hard drive

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Using perpendicular recording to get there, Hitachi yesterday announced their 7K1000, the first 1 terabyte hard drive I've ever seen. With SATA & PATA interfaces let's hope we see this in the new Mac Pro next week!


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
8.7 ms average seek time (with command overhead)
7,200 RPM, 4.17 ms average latency
Serial-ATA 3.0Gb/s
32 MB data buffer – SATA
26.1 mm in height (max)
700g in weight (max)
5/4 platters, 10/8 recording heads – SATA
300 G/1 ms pulse non-operating shock
9.0 (5 disk)/8.1 (4 disk) watt idle power – SATA
2.9 Bels typical idle acoustics
5-60 degrees C operating temperature
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Hitachi's Deskstar® 7K1000 will begin shipping to retail customers in the first quarter of 2007 at a suggested retail price of $399 (USD), or 40 cents per gigabyte (GB).
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I know that they announced that they hoped to make some, but I'm not sure if they actually released them or gave a price.
 
A $400 MSRP at launch really is a good deal. IIRC, Seagate's 750 GB drive launched at an MSRP of about $600 last year. Prices quickly sank to the $400-$450 range within a few weeks, and it can now be had for about $330.

Excellent news.
 
That's awesome! Sounds like they are cheap enough to set up a RAID configuration for even more speed, space and reliability too. I remember the days when you had to purchase expensive SCSI Cheetah drives to get even close to the capacity and speed necessary for rendering or video capture.
 
Man, for $1600 you could have 4TB in a Mac Pro? That's pretty incredible. I just paid $90 for three 320GB drives...maybe in two years 1TB drives will be the same!! :p
 
$400 is fantastic. Yet over here I bet it'll be £400 ($800) :mad:

*disappears to throw insults at inanimate objects*
 
Yummy! PMR, 7200RPM, looks like good access times, and did anyone else notice that HUGE cache?
:D

dllavaneras said:
Awesome, just awesome! I'd love to get one of those... any chance you can use it as an external HD and plug it into my eMac?
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Yes. All eMacs had FireWire, so you could easily slap it into a FireWire 400 external drive case.
 
Can't wait for this to come out. I'll take two. It'll be nice to have all my home movies on HD rather than several DVDs so I can easily access them through front row.
 
$400 sounds pretty darn good to me...

Maybe this will knock the price down on the 500s and 750s. I could use a 750 to tide me over until I get my next Mac.
 
Lord Blackadder said:
I notice that OWC is selling 2 Maxtor 500GB SATA drives with PCI controller for $359...being able to get a single (and probably faster) 1TB drive for just $50 more is pretty good.

I've had pretty good luck with Hitachi/IBM drives.
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I wish I'd had good luck.

If the thing is reliable, I'm all for it but pushing the price down by removing reliability just isn't a great idea unless you're able to use them in a RAID configuration.
 
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