Hitachi GST says it’s the “dawn of a new age in storage technology, and is promoting the “Tera Era.”
As the distribution of video content to social networking sites and to handheld devices becomes more commonplace, storage capacity requirements will only continue to increase. This need, says HGT, has led us to a new era of storage where a single hard disk drive can store 250,000 MP3s, 300 movies or over 333,000 photos. This is the Tera Era and Hitachi launched the self-proclaimed era with the industry’s first 1TB hard drive in January 2007.
Against this same backdrop of digital content explosion, Hitachi announces its 2nd-generation one terabyte hard drive, the Deskstar 7K1000.B, the “world’s most energy-efficient 7,200 RPM 1TB hard drive”.
The Deskstar 7K1000.B’s new three-disk design improves idle power consumption up to 43% over its 1TB predecessor (already among the imost energy efficient HDDs). Increased protection against data loss and piracy is provided via Bulk Data Encryption (BDE) available as an option.
The new 7,200 RPM, 3.5-inch drives are available from 160GB to 1TB. The drives are built using Hitachi’s perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) heads and disks, delivering a maximum of 375GB of storage per disk.
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