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Once upon a time in 2006. A company named Seagate released 750GB drives in ATA and SATA options. To this day, the capacity of 750GB haven't been contested by any other company on the market. Fast forward to January of 2007, and a new record has broken. Hitachi is the first company today to break the barrier of 1TB (1,000GB) with their new 7K1000.

Who needs this sort of storage capacity? You will, eventually, said Doug Pickford, director of market and product strategy at Hitachi. Demand for data storage capacity at corporations continues to grow, and it shows no sign of abating. A single terabyte drive takes up less space than four 250GB drives, which lets IT managers conserve on computing room real estate. The drive can hold about 330,000 3MB photos or 250,000 MP3s, according to Hitachi's math.

With a target price of $399. This drive will have factor of .40 cents per GB. Currently, prices of the Seagate 750GB drive can be found for as low as $299.

For Audio or Video Professionals, 1TB capacity for a single drive will make four 250GB drives of yesterday seem like a fossil.

For the SFF (small form factor) market, this is a day of celebration when configuring and building a system that has to no longer use Dual 500GB drives to reach the 1TB of space.

For the System administrators; 2U rack chassis' with 12 3.5" bays means a lot of storage flexibility.

Main question for the consumer is; How do you plan on backing up 1TB of data?

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Murdock Captain Posts: 1398 Joined: 2001-07-02

#39457 Posted on: 01/05/2007 07:00 PM I'd be suprised if it was even a 1,000GB drive as the article states. Unless the marketing folks have made a drastic change in the way they label their drives, I suspect the "1TB" drive will actually be ~900GB instead. (1,000,000,000,000 bytes + Marketing = 1TB instead of 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1TB) I'll get more excited when they release a single drive that has 1TB of useable capacity. I wonder if Sun will validate these for the Sun Fire x4500 systems. (48 of those drives in a 4U chassis = Giggidy!) The pathetic state of our government will never change unless we stop electing politicians and start electing public servants. Remember: There was once a time when the term "politician" had a very negative connotation.

PDX57 Registered User Posts: 45 Joined: 2003-12-16

#39458 Posted on: 01/07/2007 10:38 PM When I think of names that inspire confidence, the Deskstar is not on the list. If the stated MTBF is accurate, then some guy somewhere has got a Deskstar that's going to run for a million years.

locovaca That's what she said Posts: 176 Joined: 2001-07-17

#39459 Posted on: 01/08/2007 03:07 AM I must say the related news is rather funny... but I don't draw the connection. Of course, 1 TB seems like a lot now, but wait in 10 years when we have 1 TB of memory standard on workstations!

Joey Jo Jo Jr. Registered User Posts: 89 Joined: 2002-01-16

#39468 Posted on: 01/10/2007 01:15 PM In 10 years 1TB will be a requirement of Windows 2017

Ugly2dog mod this Posts: 72 Joined: 2002-02-03

#39474 Posted on: 01/13/2007 05:46 AM I have 12 of the Seagate 750GB in my archive/backup servers now. With the amount of storage we {me/spouse/family} are using; I can't wait until the price drops a little.

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