DROOL - 1 TB hard drive ready to hit the streets

vibebob · Post by **vibebob** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:47 am

I read this on Google news .....It seems the day of the 1-terabyte consumer hard drive has finally become a reality. Hitachi announced yesterday, just before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, that it will be shipping a 1TB hard drive by the end of the first quarter in 2007. The drive will be the first of three that the company is expecting to release in 2007; the other two are aimed at video pros and the enterprise market. Those two will ship in the second quarter of the year.The 3.5" Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 will run at 7200 rpm, have a 32MB buffer, and be available as SATA 3.0Gb/s or Parallel-ATA 133. The company did not max out on areal density on the drives though; instead of trying to cram 250GB onto four platters, Hitachi opted to go with a 200GB-per-platter, five-platter approach. Hitachi's director of market and product strategy Doug Pickford told PC World that "About 250GB per platter is the next bump on the areal density curve, but we've backed off from doing that in order to achieve higher reliability at this time."Hitachi is vying to be the first to the market with a 1TB drive. If the drive does in fact ship in the first quarter of the year, Hitachi will likely beat out Seagate, which is also rushing to the plate with their own 1TB drive. Seagate's drive is expected to be out within the first half of the year and use only four platters, at 250GB per platter. Both make use of perpendicular recording technologies and will be demoed at CES next week.A 1TB hard drive for $399 is likely to be an instant hit among early adopters and video pros. That price translates to about 40 cents per gigabyte, or 0.04 cents per megabyte. Compared to Seagate's 750GB Barracuda 7200.10 driveâ€”which comes out to about 60 cents per gigabyte and 0.06 cents per megabyte ($349.99 from Amazon)â€”and the 500GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K500â€”about 42 cents per gigabyte and 0.042 cents per megabyte ($209.95 from Amazon)â€”the DeskStar 7K1000 offers a slight value over the currently available competition.Even people who don't think they need that much storage will probably need it eventually, says Pickford, due to the increasing size of television and movie files. But how exactly does one back up a 1TB drive? With another 1TB drive? A RAID of 1TB drives? That's sure to add up quickly, and some of the Ars staff is scared of the thought of backing up 1TB worth of data to tape. And this is just the beginningâ€”Seagate's R&D labs are already working on 300 terabit (about 37.5 terabytes) drives to be launched within the next decade. Try to back that up to a tape drive.

savedbyzero · Post by **savedbyzero** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:53 am

Um, you can get quad 750 megs in the new Mac Pro already...

coldmm803 · Post by **coldmm803** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:45 pm

nice find vibebobthats cool that there will b 1tb in a single drive but the fact that it is 5 platters could b an issue. are the 750's 5 platters? if the 1tb is the first to go to 5 platters that means that it will be a thicker case and wont fit into current bays. for those of us that build our own pc's we'll then have to wait for case companies to accept the new heightin my current pc i have a 250, a 200 and 2x 120's. that story can wait till later...if someone asks

Jahntassa · Post by **Jahntassa** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:02 pm

The increases of drive size is actually frightening. Okay, you have 1TB on one drive, but what happens when something goes wrong? How are you going to back up that much data?Already you need a RAID mirror, so you need TWO drives, just to help in case one of them dies. Plus, what happens if the controller goes wonky?There's no cheap reliable backup for these drives except more drives. Even tape is starting to run into limits. Nevermind the fact that a 200Gb/400Gb tape drive is around $3k.It's great, for multimedia sure, for downloads sure, but it's only helping the nightmare.I have two Maxtor 500Gb drives in my main desktop. RAID 1, because BOTH of them have died in the last few months. Scary concept.I also have a server with 4 200Gb drives, hooked up in a RAID 5. Along with an LTO 2 tape backup on top of that. (Yes, work paid for this stuff). And y'know? Only now do I feel vaguely safe about my data.I'm not saying the 1TB drive isn't great, but it's getting to the point where storage is growing faster than ways to keep it safe.

mcgusto82 · Post by **mcgusto82** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:40 pm

anybody know how much it would cost to back up 1TB online? From what i read that's the best way to back up data. I am so far behind on technology. i got a 80 Gig laptop drive with a 160 gig external, and another 20 gig external. both the externals came from my recently taken apart desktop.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:48 pm

Isn't a 1 TB hard drive like buying a house with a bigger garage so you can pack it with more junk? Eventually you have to do some spring cleaning to get it under control.

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:34 pm

Quote, originally posted by joatmon Â»quad 750 megs? that's 3 GB. Go Apple!Ha ha, yes... We have far superior storage capacity. Plus a prettier and less flaky OS. Anyway, while I'm sure I could fill up one of these drives, but considering it's DeathStar, I'll have to respectfully decline. Back when they were made by IBM (IBM later spun off their HD biz and Hitachi purchased it) we had a lot of horrible, cheap crappy Dell PC's at work that had the DeathStar drives in them... I was all too often having Dell ship me out new hard drives because of those pieces of crap crashing. Who knows, maybe they've improved since Hitachi bought them, and also considering Dell was involved, they probably said to IBM "hey, give us some of the worst and cheapest drives you have, picking out of the bottom of the pile will be fine for us and corporate america!"

savedbyzero · Post by **savedbyzero** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:18 am

Typo. 750 GB. Obviously there's something right about OSX: http://video.on.nytimes.com/if...55195

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:18 am

That video is hilarious. M$ didn't copy OS X for their lovely Vista, the appearance of it is just horrid. If they would have copied stuff from Apple, the interface would actually be aesthetically pleasing.

Jahntassa · Post by **Jahntassa** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:39 am

My only problem with Apple is I don't want to shell out $2k for a decent machine, JUST for an OS.But I digress.. As far as the 'online backup' goes. I'm just too paranoid. I don't think I have anything to worry about as far as security goes (other than work stuff), but I want to know where my data is, and who has access to it. While I do store stuff online, it's typically on servers that I, or someone I trust, control.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 7:14 am

Quote, originally posted by savedbyzero Â»Typo. 750 GB. yeah, I knew, but I thought it was funny. I'll stick with Windows because I can run the work software on it, Macs not supported. If I had a Mac, then telecommuting would not be an option. You can now run MacOS on an intel platform, but why bother. I also get enough with Solaris at work, I don't need to mess with Linux.For personal use, I don't need a TB drive. Cool though.

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