by Playfuls Staff |
5th January 2007
Consumers’ ability to store
video, photos, music and other valued data will reach new heights as Hitachi
Global Storage Technologies announced the industry’s first terabyte [more] (TB)
hard drive. Delivering superior performance and reliability, as well as
capacity, Hitachi’s 1TB hard drive meets the needs of consumers who want to
create, share and store their digital information, and lots of it. Hitachi’s
Deskstar 7K1000 will begin shipping to retail customers in the first quarter of
2007 at a suggested retail price of $399 (USD), or 40 cents per gigabyte (GB).
This new consumer-friendly price makes ultra-high storage capacity more affordable
and accessible than ever before.
Along with the Deskstar 7K1000
for the retail market, Hitachi is also announcing today a CinemaStar version
1TB hard drive, which provides optimized capabilities specifically designed for
digital video recording (DVR) applications. Consumers have come to rely on
their digital video recorders (DVRs) to record and store their favorite
programs, and with the increasing availability of high-definition (HD) TV
programming, 1TB of storage will become a necessity. High-definition video
requires 4 to 5 times more storage capacity than standard-definition video and
a terabyte drive allows viewers to easily store and retrieve almost 250 hours
of HD programming (additional storage facts can be found in the accompanying
press release addendum).
Consumers have entered an era
where everything they capture on digital still or video, listen to and write,
can be saved and shared for future enjoyment. In the connected home, storage
becomes the epicenter of the home network, linking the living room, the office
and the bedroom together in a truly digitally-connected home. The family’s
games, home movies, photos and music can be stored and accessed from a variety
of digital entertainment devices within the home. As the distribution of video
content to social networking sites and to handheld devices becomes more
commonplace, storage capacity requirements will reach new heights. In this
scenario, consumers can begin to imagine what they would do with all that
capacity. With 1TB, Hitachi’s
Deskstar 7K1000, for PCs and home media centers and the CinemaStar 7K1000 for
DVRs help to usher in this new era.
Hitachi’s 1TB products deliver the
performance and reliability required for the digital lifestyle. The 3.5-inch,
7200 RPM Parallel-ATA/Serial-ATA hard drives are built on the industry’s most
reliable perpendicular magnetic recording technology, first established with Hitachi’s Travelstar
2.5-inch and 1.8-inch product lines.
The Deskstar 7K1000 SATA version
will be available in Q1 2007 at 750-GB and one-TB capacities. The 1TB capacity
point will have a suggested retail price of $399 (USD).
