Hitachi claims world's first terabyte drive

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.

The firm is also releasing a Cinemastar 1TB drive aimed at the digital video recording market. The Deskstar 1TB drive comes with S-ATA 3Gb/s and P-ATA 133 interfaces. Hitachi said it will introduce an enterprise version of the 1TB drive in the second quarter of this year. µ