“Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is first to the mat with an announcement of a 1-terabyte hard disk drive. Industry analysts widely expected a 1TB drive to ship sometime in 2007; Hitachi grabbed a head start on the competition by announcing its drive today, just before the largest U.S. consumer electronics show starts next week,” Melissa J. Perenson reports for PC World.
“According to Hitachi, the drive ships in the first quarter of 2007, and will cost $399–less than the price of two individual 500GB hard drives today. The drive, called the Deskstar 7K1000, will be shown this weekend in Las Vegas at the 2007 International CES,” Perenson reports.
Perenson reports, “The Deskstar 7K1000 will be a five-platter drive, each platter capable of storing 200GB apiece …Hitachi’s 1TB model uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) to achieve its high capacity point. The 7K1000 is Hitachi’s first 3.5-inch hard drive to use PMR technology; last year, the company released 2.5-inch PMR-based hard drives.”
Full article here.
Wow. I mean… Wow! That’s amazing. And to think I spent $500 for a 500Mb HD with my Quadra 800 back in the day.
/my mind is goggeling right now. I’ll be fine by lunchtime.
You don’t know WOW.
$1300 for a 10MB drive in 1985.
That with a hefty UCLA discount.
formatted capacity: 300 GB
just think. in a mac pro, you will (theoretically) be able to put 4tb internally! thats something to gawk at!
Hitachi 1TB + ZFS (in OSX) = Crazy delicous
1-terabyte drives is hot. $400 for 1-terabyte gives me wood.
So what, my first Mac Plus in ’86 didn’t even have a hard drive.
Wow, and Seagate just announced their 1TB drive today, too.
Somebody correct me but I was told that the larger the capacity HD, the less stable they are. By unstable I mean that larger HDs are more fragile and consequently more prone to failure. Is this a load of BS someone at the computer (Mac) store was unloading on me or what?
Oh yeah, well I spend $60,000 on an 5mb IBM 305 RAMAC array back in 1957.
Okay, I’m lying.
I did, however, play Trade Wars on a 300 baud modem. Hows that?
Oh….and I spent $800 on a 20Mb Rodime HD (8″ x 10″ by 3″) in 1987.
20 MB?? Damn son, you could fit fate of atlantis AND golden axe on that dizzle
“formatted capacity: 300 GB” haha. That was great.
Wow, even more space for stuff no one will back up and then lose.
I’ve had 3 out of 4 Hitachi “DeathStar” drives fail within 1 year. Never again.
Ok, so I’ve been pwn3d.
But I’m still goggeling at 1Tb in a single drive! Zoinks Scoob!
/is Tb the correct nomenclature? Or should it be TB?
So what MEGAMAC MY first Mac didn’t even have a Hard Drive!
I’m surprised that Microsoft doesn’t have the name Deathst…er..Deskstar trademarked already.
Wow. 1TB? That’s a lotta porn!
Back in my day, if we wanted to save some data we had to draw on cave walls with our own blood (at a time when ten words per hour was a dang good data transfer rate), and let me tell ya, those lasted much much longer than these new fancy hard drives last today.
I remember selling an Apple ProDrive (5 MB) for $1995 in 1983, and a Tallgrass 12 MB HD in 1985 for $1295.
Now you can fit a GB in your watch!
January 24, 1984:
Me too, but it was called “ProFile,” not “ProDrive”. As you said, 5MB for $1995–I’ve got more than that on my keychain!
Is it just me or does that “Full Article here” link just link back to this page?
This is sweet. I can’t wait to put 3TB in an Xserve.
-jcr
re. geezer,
you were allowed to paint with blood?! You lucky bastard…
At college in 1987: 20MB IBM winchester drive for the MicroVAX we were laboring on: $20,000.
No backup, either.
Dem wuz da days!
You guys just amuse me…
Think of 5MB drives the size of the average washing machine and removeable data packs the size of a very, very large hat box. Been there, done that.
Think of data transfer systems like Bell 112 at 122 baud then finally getting the acoustic modem (which still sits on my desk!) that runs at the blazing speed of 300 baud. Been there, done that.
Think of half inch open real tapes that are at 400 bpi (that’s bits per INCH of tape) then upgrading to 800 bpi and finally going to one inch tapes that hold a monstrous 3200 bpi! Been there, done that.
Oh and personal computers backed up to cassette tapes. Been there, done that too.
Personally, multi-terabyte hard disk drives and terabyte removeable media (holographic?) can’t come soon enough. Now all we need is a trasfer systems that can move terabytes in minutes instead of hours so that backups don’t take all night (like they used to 25+ years ago), e.g., backing up a 4TB array of four drives in a MacPro over FW800 would take over 12 hours.
Can you just imagine how much porn you could store on that drive? It boggles the mind (and other body parts).
geezer and terry g:
you mean you had blood? we hadn’t evolved it yet. all we had was the slime from our primordial ooze. we did end up evolving this hugely intricate information storage and transmittal system (DNA), all by chance because, of course, we weren’t intelligent yet.
In 1962, I spent $625,000 on a Crossfield HD made by Honeywell/Ibm. Capacity: 1.125 MB.
Good one Really Old Guy.
It’s ridiculous, I tell ya… this evolution ****.
MDN : the links wrong, it goes back to this article
I’ll consider Seagate’s 1TB drive before Hitachi’s, that is, if I can afford 1 TB, at all.
Sheesh. First old fart never has a chance!
C’mon you pikers–there has to be a vacuum tube and punch card story here somewhere
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The first modern computer programmers were all women. That must piss off the testosteroney.
BTW, Ray Kurzweil is either mad or mad and scary right.
bond co. stooge:
“C’mon you pikers–there has to be a vacuum tube and punch card story here somewhere”
OK, you’re on.
My 80 plus mother-in-law worked on the Hollerith machines at Bletchley Park during WWII.
She uses an eMac now.
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I had a nightmare one time that my hard drive got a terror bite, and whan I woke up, there was mustard on my bun…
OK, that is the LAST time I use OSX to read a story to me! Now where are my glasses? Good night, Vicki.
I think I spent that much on my first 20 meg hard drive for my Amiga in ’87.
By this time next year, that one terror bite drive will be inside an iPod.
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Did someone say porn?
Given:
HD = 1Tb
1 good quality porn image = 100kb
Conclusion:
1 HD = 10,000,000 images
,,,it would take over 115 days to view all of them at the rate of 1 per second, non-stop of course.
Yessssss, Simon, yessssss!!!!!