“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!