Today, two leading hard-drive manufactures, Hitachi and Seagate, announced their plans to launch the first 1TB hard-disk drives in the first half of this year. Both these drives will probably be on display at the CES next week.
Hitachi's 7K1000 is a high capacity hard drive that can pack 1TB of data. By using perpendicular recording technology, Hitachi was able to achieve this density. It's available with SATA II or PATA 133, a 32MB buffer, and a 7200rpm spindle speed. Priced at $400, these drives are expected to hit the market in Q1 of this year.
Seagate too has announced that the company will launch a high capacity HDD in the first half of this year. It features capacity-boosting perpendicular recording technology, and is expected to have 1TB storage capacity. The drive will use fewer heads and discs, and will have four high density platters of 250GB each. The company claims that above mentioned technologies can increase drive reliability, and also reduce operating temperatures, power consumption, noise, and weight.
(Pictured above is the Seagate Barracuda 750GB HDD) SOURCE URL: PCLaunches.com
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