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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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 Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject: 1TB drives on the market |
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1TB drives on the market
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Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. Hitachi was only off by a few days.
The company said on Thursday that it will come out with a 3.5-inch-diameter 1 terabyte drive for desktops in the first quarter, then follow up in the second quarter with 3.5-inch terabyte drives for digital video recorders, bundled with software called Audio-Visual Storage Manager for easier retrieval of data, and corporate storage systems.
Hitachi terabyte drives
The Deskstar 7K1000 will cost $399 when it comes out. That comes to about 40 cents a gigabyte. Hitachi will also come out with a similar 750GB drive. Rival Seagate Technology will come out with a 1 terabyte drive in the first half of 2007. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:47 am Post subject: |
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Nice! My next upgrade, I hope.
Just off the top of my head, I would imagine that the bigger the hard drive, the longer the seek time would be. Would it not take the drive longer to find data on a 1TB drive than an 80GB drive?
If the seek time is up to par then I would definitely buy one.
However, when I upgraded last year from an 80GB to a 250GB i thought my storage problems were solved. I think you can fill any size hard drive if you try hard enough.
On one day a few weeks ago I downloaded about 12GB of video. It wouldn't take long to fill 1TB.
Oh yeah......almost forgot to say.....That's an awful lot of porn!!!  |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:45 am Post subject: |
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Seek times...
Perpendicular as opposed to longitudinal recording is allowing HDDs to finally evolve past the theoretical limit of 120 gigabits per inch.
Western Digital WDG2TP10000N: 8.9ms. No slouch.
Maxtor 1TB offerings stay around 9ms. |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:09 am Post subject: |
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Damn I remembered back in the days I paid $399 for a 40MB hard disk!!!!
I'd love to get a terabyte HD but think DVDs should do for now (until Blueray disc prices comes down). |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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| rocklee wrote: |
Damn I remembered back in the days I paid $399 for a 40MB hard disk!!!!
I'd love to get a terabyte HD but think DVDs should do for now (until Blueray disc prices comes down). |
I saw blueray media at Yongsan earlier this week. Only 30,000 for one disc. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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LG just came out with a hybrid Blu-ray/HD player which is what I will buy when the time comes.
1TB will rock, just imagine the porn! |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| SuperHero wrote: |
| rocklee wrote: |
Damn I remembered back in the days I paid $399 for a 40MB hard disk!!!!
I'd love to get a terabyte HD but think DVDs should do for now (until Blueray disc prices comes down). |
I saw blueray media at Yongsan earlier this week. Only 30,000 for one disc. |
That's about 1 dollar per GB on a blueray disk (if its 25-30GB), though it can take up to 50GB if its double sided.
I don't know man. I'm sticking with DVDs for now. 4.5GB, about 6 or 7 DIVX movies per disk. Gonna buy a DVD-DIVX player soon  |
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