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Hitachi's 2TB Deskstar hard drive gets official

by Parm Mann on 6 August 2009, 12:19

Tags: 2TB Deskstar 7K2000, Hitachi (TYO:6501)

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Having made an unscheduled appearance at online etailers last months, Hitachi's 2TB Deskstar hard drive has today been officially launched. The drive, pictured below, has been dubbed the Deskstar 7K2000 and is shipping immediately.

2TB of capacity in a single 3.5in drive is nothing new of course, with Western Digital's 2TB Caviar Green already readily available, but Hitachi's Deskstar 7K2000 is the first 2TB drive to operate at 7,200RPM - as opposed to the 5,400RPM drives currently on the market. Looks as though Western Digital needs to get a move on with its yet-to-be-launched high-performance 2TB Caviar Black.

Hitachi's drive makes use of a five-platter design, a 32MB cache and a 3Gb/s SATA interface. There's no official word on pricing yet, but etailers are hinting at around $270.

Official press release: HITACHI GST SHIPS THE INDUSTRY'S FIRST TWO TERABYTE 7200 RPM DESKTOP HARD DISK DRIVE

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Posted by Roobubba - Thu 06 Aug 2009 12:23
I wish they'd stop mucking about with HDDs and get out some more SSDs! Intel's aggressive pricing on the 32nm parts is welcoming (although not that welcoming to me as I have one of their 54nm parts which they won't support with new firmware - Bah!), but what we really need is more competition from the big name hard drive manufacturers in the SSD market!

Roo
Posted by Funkstar - Thu 06 Aug 2009 12:29
World's first 2TB 3.5in hard drive now shipping.

you might want to change that to “World's first 2TB 7200RPM 3.5in hard drive now shipping.” The WD has been out for a while after all :)
Posted by oolon - Thu 06 Aug 2009 12:36
I have to admit I went off Deathstars after all the problems IBM had with them, all of the drives I had from several different model failed. I vowed never to get another one, even though Hitachi make them now. Plus any disk I get has to be mirrored.
Posted by Michaelv - Thu 06 Aug 2009 14:44
WHAT!?!? $270!?! er….

2.5“ 1TB drives are being manufactured right now, you can fit 4 of them in the same cubic volume as this one 3.5” drive..they will be VERY quiet and produce lower vibrations…

WOW 3.% drives are dying FAST…I actually thought 4TB drives should be announced any time soon for about £120….

:stop:
Posted by shaithis - Thu 06 Aug 2009 15:02
Michaelv
WHAT!?!? $270!?! er….

2.5“ 1TB drives are being manufactured right now, you can fit 4 of them in the same cubic volume as this one 3.5” drive..they will be VERY quiet and produce lower vibrations…

WOW 3.% drives are dying FAST…I actually thought 4TB drives should be announced any time soon for about £120….

:stop:

Paying for the highest capacity always carries a huge price premium.

What you will notice is that once there are a handful of 2TB drives on the market, the 1.5TB drives will plummet in price.

Plus 1TB 2.5“ drives are only a bit cheaper then the price on this 3.5” 2TB drive…..physical size also comes at a price premium ;)

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