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Hitachi announces 1 TB drives

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by cwerdna, Jan 6, 2007.

  1. cwerdna

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    I was expecting them to cost quite a bit more. Current 750GB go for about $340-$450 for oem.
     
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    TheForce Stop War! Lets Rave! Make Love!

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    Here is a cool flash animation on how they are getting the massive storage.

    Get Perpendicular
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(theforce @ Jan 6 2007, 09:00 PM) [snapback]371889[/snapback]</div>
    5 platters, unlike Seagates that will have four, and be available a few months later.

    I like the higher areal density and less platters, for faster access and I'd guess better reliability, other things being equal.
     
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    Wouldn't it be better with 4 platters and 8 heads? Then just read from all heads at once, giving you one byte of data. Though I'm not sure how they read the data.
     
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