I remember when 750GB drives were all the rage, but Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000 drive has dropped my jaw. The retail is only $399! Several months after the 750GB drives became mainstream it wasn’t uncommon to see them selling for $500. Along with the increased disk space, the 7K1000 features a needed buffer increase to 32MB.
Not to be outdone, Seagate confirmed that they will be making a 1TB version of their Barracuda hard drive. Both of these massive drives make use of PMR which I explained in-detail a while ago. I think it’s safe to say that we will be seeing 1TB TiVos in a few months.
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I guess I’ll start planning my next file server. :)
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Booyah! I would love a compy with 3TB of space.
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I’m so going to get one of these; great find!
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399!!! Are you outta your mind!!! lol… I was in Fry’s the other day and I over heard a guy say “psh, 599 I could buy a whole computer for that price” then I happened to look over and he was looking at a 1TB drive. I will def. make this a backup drive in the future!
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Hm… great addition to accompany my macbook as an external harddrives :)
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