Hitachi to sell 1TB Hard Drive for $399

jmke · 5th January 2007, 11:22

THE STORAGE division of Hitachi said it is introducing the world's first one terabyte (TB) hard drive. The Deskstar 7K1000 will ship this quarter at a price of $399, or as Hitachi puts it, at 40 cents a gigabyte.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36725

piotke · 5th January 2007, 11:34

very affordable

Sidney · 11th January 2007, 07:05

With HD size increasing, I am not sure if users are educated to protect and totally clean up data, pix, music and movies. In the case, it is the clean up job; I once got a 120GB used HD from eBay with tons of MP3 still there. I'm not surprised to find people leaving family pictures, home made video clips and important data in their abandoned HD. Certain recovery softwares will restore deleted pix and data.

I personally like to a couple of small partitions to store pictures and data so that I could reformat on a timely basis not leaving any trace on certain unwanted (once important data) information for my eyes only.

jmke · 11th January 2007, 10:59

format is not enough, not by a long shot, you need to overwrite the data with 0/1 several times for it become impossible to restore.

5th January 2007, 11:22	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,008	Hitachi to sell 1TB Hard Drive for $399 THE STORAGE division of Hitachi said it is introducing the world's first one terabyte (TB) hard drive. The Deskstar 7K1000 will ship this quarter at a price of $399, or as Hitachi puts it, at 40 cents a gigabyte. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36725 __________________

5th January 2007, 11:34	#2
piotke [M] Reviewer Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 5,003	very affordable __________________ .

11th January 2007, 07:05	#3
Sidney Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,738	With HD size increasing, I am not sure if users are educated to protect and totally clean up data, pix, music and movies. In the case, it is the clean up job; I once got a 120GB used HD from eBay with tons of MP3 still there. I'm not surprised to find people leaving family pictures, home made video clips and important data in their abandoned HD. Certain recovery softwares will restore deleted pix and data. I personally like to a couple of small partitions to store pictures and data so that I could reformat on a timely basis not leaving any trace on certain unwanted (once important data) information for my eyes only. __________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II Last edited by Sidney : 11th January 2007 at 07:07.

11th January 2007, 10:59	#4
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,008	format is not enough, not by a long shot, you need to overwrite the data with 0/1 several times for it become impossible to restore. __________________

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