Hitachi Unveils First Terabyte Hard Drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced the industry's first terabyte hard drive. Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 will begin shipping to retail customers in the first quarter of 2007 at a suggested retail price of $399 (USD).
Along with the Deskstar 7K1000 for the retail market, Hitachi also announced a CinemaStar version 1TB hard drive, which provides optimized capabilities specifically designed for digital video recording (DVR) applications. The CinemaStar 1TB hard drive will be available in the second quarter.
The 3.5-inch, 7200 RPM Parallel-ATA/Serial-ATA hard drives are built on the perpendicular magnetic recording technology, first established with Hitachi's Travelstar 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch product lines.
Finally, an enterprise version of the TB drive designed for lower duty-cycle, high-capacity enterprise environments is currently under evaluation at major OEM customers and is expected to be available in the second quarter.
Specifications:
- 1000/750 GB – SATA
- 148 billion bits per square inch maximum areal density
- 1070 Mb/s max. media data rate
- 8.7 ms average seek time (with command overhead)
- 7,200 RPM, 4.17 ms average latency
- Serial-ATA 3.0Gb/s
- 32 MB data buffer – SATA
- 26.1 mm in height (max)
- 700g in weight (max)
- 5/4 platters, 10/8 recording heads – SATA
- 300 G/1 ms pulse non-operating shock
- 9.0 (5 disk)/8.1 (4 disk) watt idle power – SATA
- 2.9 Bels typical idle acoustics
- 5-60 degrees C operating temperature
Source: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
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