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Hitachi Beats Seagate in Race To One Terabyte

January 6th, 2007

Hitachi has announced the imminent release of the world’s first one terabyte hard drive. The Deskstar 7K1000 will retail for only $399 which weighs in at just 40 cents per gigabyte.

Seagate had earlier announced their own terabyte drive, but failed to provide a release date or a price, and in our book that makes them the loser.

“The industry’s first one-terabyte hard drive represents a milestone that is 50 years in the making, and it reasserts the hard drive’s leadership as the highest-capacity, lowest-cost storage technology,” said Shinjiro Iwata, chief marketing officer, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. “In the 51 st year, Hitachi is leading a new era for hard drives — not only providing large amounts of affordable storage, but also customizing and optimizing hard drives to deliver products that are smarter, more durable and more useful to the consumer.”

Interestingly for those who own, or are thinking of buying, a PVR, Hitachi also announced the Deskstar’s cousin, Cinemastar, aimed squarely at the home electronics market. Like Deskstar, Cinemastar has a one terabyte capacity.

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