{"id":1943,"date":"2007-01-05T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2011-08-31T15:16:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T21:16:59","slug":"terabyte-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/terabyte-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Terabyte drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cnet reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. Hitachi was only off by a few days.<br \/>\nThe company said on Thursday that it will come out with a 3.5-inch-diameter 1 terabyte drive for desktops in the first quarter, then follow up in the second quarter with 3.5-inch terabyte drives for digital video recorders, bundled with software called Audio-Visual Storage Manager for easier retrieval of data, and corporate storage systems.<br \/>\nHitachi terabyte drives<br \/>\nThe Deskstar 7K1000 will cost $399 when it comes out. That comes to about 40 cents a gigabyte. Hitachi will also come out with a similar 750GB drive. Rival Seagate Technology will come out with a 1 terabyte drive in the first half of 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m drooling over the size of this drive.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough room to hold 250,000 Mp3 files &#8211; or as CNet puts it &#8211; enough music to play continuously for two years without ever repeating.<\/p>\n<p>The article also reports that the entire Library of Congress could be held on 10 terabytes.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the 50th birthday of the original hard drive last year.<\/p>\n<p>The original weighed a ton and held 5 MB.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> As of August 2011 I now have a <em>two<\/em> terabyte hard drive sitting on my desk that I purchased earlier this year for less than $125. As of today, you can buy the same drive for less than $90 from Amazon. The times they are a changing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=malesurvival&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=B002QEBMCI\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cnet reports: Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. Hitachi was only off by a few days. The company said on Thursday that it will come out with a 3.5-inch-diameter 1 terabyte drive for desktops in the first quarter, then follow up in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/terabyte-drives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Terabyte drives<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[4267,3437,4265,4268,4266],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno","tag-back-up","tag-future","tag-hard-drives","tag-storage","tag-terabyte"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-vl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}