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1 Terabyte drives on the way

January 6th, 2007

This week, both Hitachi and Seagate announced that they will add a 1 terabyte drive to their hard drive ranges. Imagine that! 1000 gigs of space … sure makes the 26 gigs on my laptop seem so very small. 

Hitachi will add the 7K1000 to its Deskstar range; limited numbers are expected to be available in the shops this quarter.  Seagate will add the terabyte drive to its Barracuda range and is expected to ship before the Hitachi drive.

 So what can you store on a disk this size? Well that’s enough space for more than 300,000 6-megapixel images, 250,000 MP3s or 1000 hours of video.

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