Hitachi Releases Hard Drive with One Terabyte of Storage Capacity
August 13th, 2007In 2000, the company I worked for budgeted $15,000 for me to build a storage array with an initial capacity of one terabyte. I set about planning to build the thing. Rack density. Thermal dissipation. Power. Networking. Redundancy. Scalability… These were the factors I was considering as I devised my plan to build that system.
Things are just a liiiiiiiiiiittle bit different now.
Via: TechReport:
IMAGINE ONE THOUSAND thousand thousand thousand bytes. A terabyte, if you will. But more than just that—a milestone in storage capacity that hard drive manufacturers have been chasing for years. After more than a decade of living in a world of gigabytes, the bar has finally been raised by Hitachi’s terabyte-capacity Deskstar 7K1000.
Being first to the terabyte mark gives Hitachi bragging rights, and more importantly, the ability to offer single-drive storage capacity 33% greater than that of its competitors.
