Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B Hard Drive can store 250,000 MP3s, 300 movies or by 333,000 photos
With today’s announcement of its second-generation one terabyte hard drive, the Deskstar 7K1000.B, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) is forecasting the dawn of a new age in technology that it has dubbed the “Tera Era.” As the amount of digital data created, captured and duplicated around the world continues to grow at an uninterrupted, unrelenting pace, Hitachi’s vision is that three elements – rich media subject matter, culture, and increasing capacity – are uniting to create an entirely new landscape for enterprise and consumer input storage. It is against that exciting backdrop that Hitachi is announcing the Deskstar 7K1000.B, the world’s most energy-efficient 7,200 RPM one terabyte (1TB) hard drive.
Press release after the jump
The new Hitachi 7,200 RPM, 3.5-inch drives are available in a range of capacities from 160GB to 1TB. The drives are built using Hitachi’s proven and patented perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) heads and disks, delivering a maximum of 375GB of storage per disk with a high level of reliability.
SAN JOSE, Calif. – July 9, 2008 – With today’s announcement of its second-generation one terabyte hard drive, the Deskstar 7K1000.B, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) is forecasting the dawn of a new age in technology that it has dubbed the “Tera Era.” As the amount of digital data created, captured and duplicated around the world continues to grow at an uninterrupted, unrelenting pace, Hitachi’s vision is that three elements – rich media composition, culture, and increasing capacity – are uniting to create an entirely new landscape for enterprise and consumer
The Deskstar 7K1000.B provides an exceptional blend of ability efficiency and performance, making it an ideal solution for power-friendly consumer and commercial PCs. The new three-disk design improves idle potential consumption up to 43 percent by its 1TB predecessor, which was already among the industry’s most energy efficient hard drives. Increased protection against details loss and piracy is provided via Bulk input Encryption (BDE) which is available as an optional feature to users. Hitachi is plus shipping the Deskstar E7K1000, designed to supply high-capacity storage for low-duty-cycle, 24×7 applications.
Hitachi debuted the industry’s first 1TB hard drive in January 2007 to address consumers’ insatiable appetite for storage capacity. Entire libraries of photos, movies, music and games are increasingly being stored and accessed from a variety of digital entertainment devices within the home and a plethora of mobile devices. As the distribution of video composition to social networking sites and to handheld devices becomes more commonplace, storage capacity requirements will only continue to increase. Hitachi’s latest terabyte drive delivers the performance and capacity needed for today’s increasingly mobile digital lifestyle.
The new 7,200 RPM, 3.5-inch drives are available in a range of capacities from 160GB to 1TB. The drives are built using Hitachi’s proven and patented perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) heads and disks, delivering a maximum of 375GB of storage per disk with a high level of reliability.
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