Hitachi reckons its groundbreaking 1TB hard drive will be ideal for storing the ever-increasing libraries of home movies, photographs and other media we all have these days, but it's a fairly safe bet that consumers of 'arthouse' cinema, illegal warez and pirate movies will be beside themselves with glee too.
The Deskstar 7K1000 from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) is the world's first unit to offer 1TB on a single 3.5in hard drive. It goes on sale this quarter for $399, which is a surprisingly low price, given that two 500GB drives currently cost more than that.
On the technical side, the new drive uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) on five platters spinning at 7,200 rpm and has a large 32MB data buffer — that's about twice the size of the buffer on current large drives. Predictably, the 7K1000 is likely to end up not just in general home PCs and specialist gaming rigs, but also, rebranded as CinemaStar, in Tivo-like digital video recorders, in which it will be able to hold over 120 hours of HD TV.
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