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by Jennifer Johnson - Tue, Sep 06, 2011

Hitachi Reaches Areal Density Milestone With One Terabyte Per Platter Hard Drives

Hitachi has squeezed a full terabyte onto a single disk. The new one terabyte per platter (1TB/platter), one-disk, Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.D drive family is now available. The new Deskstar and CinemaStar drives are first in a family of 1TB/platter hard drives. The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.D hard drive family is built using Hitachi’s 7,200 RPM platform. The drive features a 6Gb/second Serial ATA interface and a 32MB cache buffer. Thanks to eighth-generation power management technology and power-saving HiVERT advances, this new drive offers up to 15 percent idle power savings compared to the previous model. Hitachi’s new 1TB/platter CinemaStar family targets storage-based TVs and DVRs... Read more...