1TB drive by Hitachi will be available very, very soon... cheap, too :D

1TB drive by Hitachi will be available very, very soon... cheap, too

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070105/20070104006138.html?.v=1

$399 is a really, really good price... IMHO

nice to see, though I am such a irrational customer that I won't buy a 5 platter drive from hitachi, after the deathstar incident.

very cool, nice price, some of these is in raid 5 will be great:-)

As the capacity of drives go up, so does the amount of media it takes to back them up. Loosing 1 TB of data is far from something you want to happen.

Will there really be a point to have more than 1TB per drive? I dont think so.

Originally Posted by Nacho

Will there really be a point to have more than 1TB per drive? I dont think so.

Yes, we are far from the point where we have 'enough' storage.

Originally Posted by Nacho

Will there really be a point to have more than 1TB per drive? I dont think so.

Well..you never know. I remember when I got my first true "Top Of The Line PC" with a blazing fast 300mhz Pentium II. I ordered it with a 5 GB HDD. To this day I still have to hear how I said, "5 GB! How am I ever going to fill that up?"

Originally Posted by drizzt81

nice to see, though I am such a irrational customer that I won't buy a 5 platter drive from hitachi, after the deathstar incident.

I feel the same way here. Great accomplishment by Hitachi, but I'll never touch it with a 10 foot pole.

Originally Posted by Nacho

As the capacity of drives go up, so does the amount of media it takes to back them up. Loosing 1 TB of data is far from something you want to happen.

Will there really be a point to have more than 1TB per drive? I dont think so.

I don't think people really need to back up their porn and TV shows. The world won't come to an end if it's lost.

30 of these in my beast would really be nice, lol.

a 1 terabyte beast well it's about time.

Originally Posted by Nacho

As the capacity of drives go up, so does the amount of media it takes to back them up. Loosing 1 TB of data is far from something you want to happen.

This is the problem i am having with my current music collection. I have like 340 GB of music, but no way to back it up.
I am considering ripping all my dvd's to HD and setting up a HTPC, but if i lost a drive with 3 months of encoding on it, i would be PISSED.

Hell, larger single drives makes backups MUCH easier. The larger the single drive, the more I can hold on my external enclosure for backing up my main system. I am running a 0.5TB single drive backup right now and am running out of room. This might be just what the doctor ordered!

I'd love to have 2 for RAID 0. At the rate that these drives are growing I might just end up having something bigger than 1TB in my next system.

60mb (User Doublespace to get 120mb)
600mb
1.2gb
10gb
60gb
2x160gb (RAID 0)

...That is my history of harddrives in computer I've had.

Here's another article.

Hitachi spins terabyte drive

Rick Merritt
EE Times
(01/05/2007 10:20 AM EST)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced its first terabyte drive on Friday (Jan. 5).

Hitachi's achievement of packing a terabyte in a 3.5-inch hard drive is part of the industry's broader shift to perpendicular from longitudinal recording. That generational change is proceeding well for most players, with market leader Seagate Technology well ahead of the pack and expected to leapfrog Hitachi's announcement soon.

Hitachi's terabyte drives are the company's first 3.5-inch drives to use perpendicular recording. It initially applied the new recording technique to the 2.5-inch notebook drives that are its bread and butter.

The company will ship a retail model of the terabyte drive for $399 before April. Still in testing are a consumer version for digital video recorders (DVRs) and an enterprise version for storage arrays that use most of today's high-capacity drives. Both are set to ship by June.

"There's a broad reach for this product," said Doug Pickford, director market and product strategy at Hitachi GST, based here.

While Hitachi claims a lead in hitting the terabyte milestone, its dirty little secret is it is using five platters. Hitachi also used five platters in the first rev of its previous high-end drive, a 500-Gbyte model. Hitachi later shrunk the 500 Gbyte drive to just three platters.

Seagate also released thier 1TB drives also (cant find article off the top of head). Competitive pricing, woots.

Originally Posted by Guyver03

Well..you never know. I remember when I got my first true "Top Of The Line PC" with a blazing fast 300mhz Pentium II. I ordered it with a 5 GB HDD. To this day I still have to hear how I said, "5 GB! How am I ever going to fill that up?"

I said that about a 20 Megabyte drive...and was wrong within a year (first harddrive I ever filled up). Woohoo Pebble Beach Golf!

I remember when I ordered my first drive (WD 40GB), I thought that was a lot.

....Now I have 2.5 TB and don't think that is all that much

Originally Posted by drizzt81

nice to see, though I am such a irrational customer that I won't buy a 5 platter drive from hitachi, after the deathstar incident.

The best part is that Seagate now as some competition Hopefully we'll see their prices drop a bit on the 750GB drive and their new 1TB drive!

Originally Posted by Nacho

Seagate also released thier 1TB drives also (cant find article off the top of head). Competitive pricing, woots.

Here is an article about Seagate and the 1TB. Is from August '06 but it talks about it.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6105515.html

there's an article on Seagate's from I think yesterday going into more detail.. don't have link!

Originally Posted by ChingChang

there's an article on Seagate's from I think yesterday going into more detail.. don't have link!

Is it maybe this one.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5582