“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.
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!!!!!