Whatever your
reasons, we're sure just about everyone could envision a way to fill up a single terabyte of hard drive space, and while achieving such a milestone in one machine has long been available via a bevy of internal drives, Hitachi's
1TB Deskstar 7K1000 drive has made things a lot simpler. Not waiting around for prices to plummet,
Dell is touting itself as the world's first pre-fab PC maker to offer up the ginormous HDD in its machines, initially selling it within the cases of the Alienware-branded rigs and ensuring the XPS beasts follow suit shortly. Currently,
Alienware is offering up the 1TB drive for $500 above the price of the included 250GB SATA HDD, so if you've got the means, now you've got the option.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Paul D @ Mar 19th 2007 8:50AM
Why introduce it in Alienware machines? Unless I'm mistaken, those are aimed at gamers, and gamers don't really need oodles of disk space; none of my hardcore gaming friend ever did. It's the creative types, artists and video producers, who would be willing to spring for a terabyte drive.
emor8t @ Mar 19th 2007 8:56AM
Obviously Paul, you aren't thinking ahead. Quadruple redundancy of WoW games.
Nate @ Mar 19th 2007 8:51AM
Needs more lens flair.
saboola @ Mar 19th 2007 8:59AM
Agreed.
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KC @ Mar 19th 2007 8:53AM
This is a major step into the digital era. Now that media sizes are expanding, the only thing left to fully initiate the digital era is 100MBit broadband connections en masse. Unfortunately that goal looks grim.
Nate @ Mar 19th 2007 10:14AM
L O L
steve @ Mar 19th 2007 11:58AM
Oooh! shiny! I'll take 10 please!
Matt @ Mar 19th 2007 9:01AM
Why don't they just make a bigger CD-ROM sized drive that Can hold a few TB? Sure it would be huge but most people have a few CD-ROM slots open..
mike @ Mar 19th 2007 9:13AM
This is why you dont buy a pc from a company like dell or alienware, but build it yourself. Because they charge you and arm and a leg for an upgrade.
yujean @ Mar 19th 2007 9:14AM
What a terrible idea. Harddrives are so unreliable.
Ray-- @ Mar 19th 2007 9:46AM
ill buy one when it gets below $.40 a gig.....
Jeff @ Mar 19th 2007 10:06AM
Ray,
Aren't these drives supposed to retail for $399? That gets you below $0.40/gig (barely)...
Ray-- @ Mar 19th 2007 1:10PM
you tell me... the article only says $500 to upgrade from the 250... where did you get the $399 retail figure from?
Scott @ Mar 19th 2007 11:17AM
Have fun defraggin that beast!
Scott @ Mar 19th 2007 11:17AM
So now I want 1,000 of them in a RAID array to form the first Petabyte (PB) configuration. What will I download you ask? The entire internet.
Drei @ Mar 19th 2007 12:39PM
Nate: any more flair, and this thing could be a hostess at Tchotchke's.
Drei @ Mar 19th 2007 12:40PM
typo... "Chotchkies"
Pete D @ Mar 19th 2007 1:18PM
I want to load these up into my RAID5 NAS and rock out for a couple years...
adelossa @ Mar 19th 2007 4:51PM
And yet, some of us will find a way to fill them up in a few months.
Kuipo @ Mar 19th 2007 8:51PM
As other posters are saying... who cares about size? It's the speed that matters in a gaming rig. If they aren't 10,000RPM or more then forget it unless it's a secondary drive.
sck144 @ Mar 22nd 2007 11:39PM
The drive According to Hitachi, the drive ships in the first quarter of 2007, and will cost $399--less than the price of two individual 500GB so what happened?