Hitachi announces 1 TB drives

I was expecting them to cost quite a bit more. Current 750GB go for about $340-$450 for oem.

 

Here is a cool flash animation on how they are getting the massive storage.

Get Perpendicular

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(theforce @ Jan 6 2007, 09:00 PM) [snapback]371889[/snapback]</div>

5 platters, unlike Seagates that will have four, and be available a few months later.

I like the higher areal density and less platters, for faster access and I'd guess better reliability, other things being equal.

 

Wouldn't it be better with 4 platters and 8 heads? Then just read from all heads at once, giving you one byte of data. Though I'm not sure how they read the data.