“The industry’s first 1TB hard drive represents a milestone that is 50 years in the making, said Shinjiro Iwata, chief marketing officer of HGST. Hitachi said its 1TB products deliver the performance and reliability required for the digital lifestyle. The 3.5-inch, 7200 RPM Parallel-ATA/Serial-ATA (SATA) hard drives are built on perpendicular magnetic recording technology. Shipments to retail customers will begin in the first quarter of 2007 at a suggested retail price of US$399, or US$0.40 per gigabyte (GB).”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
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Hitachi’s storage heavy weight
At 1TB (1000GB), and an MRSP of $400 dollars, Hitachi’s newly announced drive is raising a lot of eyebrows. Getting it to work in a TiVo may be a challenge, but space for 250+ hours of HD programming ought to give someone the incentive to make it work. Get more information at DigiTimes.
