Gizmodo: terabyte

Hitachi Drops Acid, Explains Terabyte Hard Drives In Crazy Cartoon

John Mahoney — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:20:39 EDT

It's always great when companies break out of their stodgy PR molds and just go for it—remember those fantastic tokusatsu Norton Fighter ads? Here we have Hitachi, no strangers to the out-of-the-box viral video, ushering us all into the "Tera Era," a magical wonderland of smiling flowers, talking bytes, hard disk actuator suns, and catchy Schoolhouse Rock jingles. The juxtaposition of traditional PR-speak on their YouTube page which looks like a clown threw up all over it ("This amazing collision of Capacity, Content and Culture") and this video, which is just another kind of PR-speak, is still pretty incredible. Check out the original "Get Perpendicular" spot for comparison below.

[YouTube]

Seven One-Terabyte Hard Drives Enter, Seven Leave (But Only One is the Best)

Jason Chen — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:00:16 EDT

ExtremeTech just compared seven one-terabyte hard drives with varying platter sizes and architectures and discovered that the drives are actually all quite similar, but with minor variations in power, noise and speed. If you're looking for a low power, low noise drive that's lightly slower than the rest—perhaps for a media center box— Western Digital's GreenPower (WD1000FYPS) drives could be for you. If you're looking for the absolute best in performance, then Samsung Spinpoint HD103UJ won most of the tests ExtremeTech ran. And at $260, it's actually the second cheapest drive they tested. [ExtremeTech]

First Hands On with the Only 1TB Drive: Hitachi's 7K1000

Louis Ramirez — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:45:51 EDT

We're not sure how this one slipped by us, but the folks at AnandTech quietly got their hands on Hitachi's 7K1000, which is both the first terabyte drive in retail and Hitachi's first 3.5-inch drive to use perpendicular recording (that basically means it records your files vertically, as opposed to horizontally to allow for more storage space). Ok, so is the drive worth your cash? Hell yeah. Here's why...

First of all is the price. For $399 you get exactly 931.5GB of storage space. Think of all the, er, video you can store on that sucker. Performance-wise, the guys at AnandTech thought the drive was phenomenal beating its closest rival, Western Digital's Raptor, which has a 10,000rpm, but caps out at 150GB. Other things to note: the Hitachi drive has a SATA interface and operates at spindle speed of 7,200rpm. It has a five-platter design (200GB per platter) and a 32MB cache.

Hitachi also has a CinemaStar version of this drive in the works, which will find a home inside DVRs. But for your home theater PC, you can't top the 7K1000. – Louis Ramirez

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 [AnandTech]

Dell, Alienware Start Selling Towers with 1TB Drives

Adam Frucci — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:15:00 EDT

Got a need for some extra storage space? Dell and Alienware just added the option for you to slap a 1 terabyte drive in one of their XPS, Area 51, or Aurora towers. That's a hell of a lot of space, although whether or not it's smarter to spread your storage out over multiple drives with less capacity or to consolidate everything into one gigantic drive is up for debate. It looks like getting the 1TB bragging rights will cost you $320 more than a 500GB drive, but it's only $20 more than having a 1TB RAID with 2 500GB drives.

Man, 1TB drives… it feels like some sort of milestone, doesn't it? I remember back in the day when I had a 1GB drive and I had to delete an MP3 if I wanted to download a new one. That sucked. –Adam Frucci

Dell and Alienware Bring World's First Terabyte Hard Drive Computer to Consumers [Dell]

Hitachi Promises 1TB Hard Drive for 2007

Gizloco — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:24:39 EST

Hitachi plans to release a 3.5-inch hard drive with a 1TB (one terabyte) capacity sometime in the first half of 2007, or The Double-O Seven as I like to call it. (The company, apparently, can't keep a promise, since they originally claimed that it'd have one last year.) This massive hard drive will be christened the Deskstar 7K1000 and will carry a $399 price tag. Can you imagine that, 1,000 gigabytes all in a standard 3.5-inch casing? Usenet, here I come.

Sure, drives with 1TB of space aren't exactly new, but these large-capacity drives were mostly limited to mini home servers and the like, such as the Iomega Network Attached Storage. Seagate came close last year with the release of a 750GB hard drive, but when you spend all day sucking in content from public and private trackers, you need all the space you can get. It's rated at 7,200 rpm, so it should be plenty fast. Let's just hope Hitachi can keep its promise this time. – Nicholas Deleon

Here comes the terabyte hard drive [CNET News.com]

Cornet's 1 Terabyte External Drive

Jason Chen — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:10:20 EDT

Cornet joins the one terabyte club with the Maximus Platinum drive. Sporting USB 2.0 and both Firewire 400 and 800, this drive should be great for owners of the MacBook Pro 17", which still has the Firewire 800 port. Windows XP and 2000 are also supported.

Available now for $1,230. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Cornet via Extreme Tech]

Iomega 1TB Network Attached Storage

Jason Chen — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:54:59 EDT

This new Iomega Network Attached Storage (NAS) device is more connected than Skynet. With gigabit ethernet, two USB 2.0 ports, wireless 802.11G networking, your Desperate Housewives bittorrent downloads are available anywhere you have a connection.

On the storage side, RAID 0, 1 and 5 can be configured to support four 250GB hard drives, which makes for a maximum of 1 Terabyte. Even Dean Cain couldn't handle that much Teri Hatcher.

New 1TB Iomega NAS Device Offers 802.11g [Digital Trends]

Hitachi releases 1TB Home DVR/DVD Burner

johnb — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:19:44 EDT

Hitachi today basically told the competition to kiss off by releasing the DV-DH1000W 1 terabyte HD/DVD burner unto the world. Before a whopping 1TB of space, the max out there was only 500GB. I mean come on, who can live with 500GB? Well apparently not a lot of us. The DV-DH1000W also can be configured with a 160GB, 250GB, or 500GB drives inside and it comes with an iLink port for connectivity.

The first home DVD burner with a 1Tb HDD [Akihabara News]

OWC Announces 1 Terabyte FireWire Drive

johnb — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:25:22 EDT

This isn't the first and this definitely won't be the last terabyte drive out there but OWC has introduced a dual-drive RAID system for $979.99. I just want us all to sit back and think on things for a moment. My first PC had a 10MB disk drive. Then I got a 40MB. Then I got a few GB, then maybe 20GB. Now, however, we have a terabyte. There it is, folks. Now we know why Longhorn is taking so long. Microsoft has to fill a three fourths a terabyte of disk space with their new operating system, leaving one fourth of the drive for WMA files. They have to do "busy code" just to fill the space. They're sticking in extra file systems, just for kicks. There's even a secret mod that shows you pictures of Bill and Melinda sipping on some hot coffee.

In all seriousness, what's next? We're approaching the end of the platter approach, even with perpendicular read heads and all that. What will the 20-TB drive look like? A blob of organic goo?

Product Page [MacSales]