Hitachi introduces 2TB SimpleDrive for digital pack rats
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 16th 2009 7:03PM
posted Nov 16th 2009 7:03PM
posted Nov 16th 2009 7:03PM
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Yawn, call me when I can get a petabyte.
Yawn, call me when I can get a exabyte.
Yawn, call me when I can get a zettabyte.
Yawn, something something yottabyte.
Yawn, call me when I can get a whateveryousaid*1000byte.
You mean Brontobyte? Failure =P
Can't wait till I get my 2 Novetta byte hardrive. So much porn.
@Steve
This the 29th century, grandpa, get with the times and buy a 10 Decettabyte HD.
So!
IN MY DAY, WE HAD TO WALK 50 BLOCKS TO RECEIVE A GIGABYTE OF DATA! NOWADAYS, FUCKING PIGEONS DROP THAT SHIT FROM THE SKY!!!!
My how the times have changed.
A pedo byte?
Gross....
Wow, how is it that we ALL had the same reaction?
Honestly, that's awesome, but now that terabytes are more or less commonplace, I'm getting ready for the petabytes.
2 TB external drive can be had for under $160. I don't see how this is such a great thing, this Toshiba announcement.
Are the drives removable/swappable? What's the point if not? Honest question.
I wish companies would work harder on bigger sizes...I figured a 3TB drive would be out by now.
MY MOVIE COLLECTION ISN'T SHRINKING!
No, but if you keep downloading movies your penis will.
If you buy two and saw one in half (it has to be perfect), you'll have yoru 3TB's right there.
It's called scaling. Spread your "movie" collection out over a couple of different hard drives. That way if one crashes, you dont loose everything. Any media program worth it's weight will allow multiple locations and treat it as one big database.
All this, of course, is contingent upon the fact that you don't backup your collection. Which, given your collection is more than likely a TB or more, I'd guess backing up is probably a bit time consuming and pricey, and thus is not happening.
haha looks like a giant version of the USB receiver for my VX Nano mouse. Where is the giant USB plug that it plugs into?
It's fine, but I've been using the G-Technology 2TB 7200 rpm drive since August. Better design too
For those of you commenting on the eSata connection, G-Tech has eSata on all of their drives except for the one portable drive I own, but my mini raid drive does have it
I bought a 1TB SimpleDrive last summer. So far so good!
I will not use Hitachi drives since they crashed on me.
Yup more capacity please. Preferably an internal harddrive with good read write speed! I want 4TB harddrives to be out and reasonably priced by the end of next year.
Want in one hand, shit in the other.
See which fills up the quickest.
My motto is:
Hot swappable or fail!
I'm waiting until the prices for these go down a bit.
No eSATA?
No redundancy? Not really for the digital pack rat then huh?
2tb, huh? Great, now you can lose even more data at once. Going to have to pass on the Hitachi Deathstars.
@jawajohn Right? My first computer in college had 6 GB...my cell now has 2.5 times as much hard drive space.
%$%$@# Reply system...
Looks GREAT. If it had eSATA, I'd consider it.
worse hand model ever!
Hitachi has been a global player and this 1TB simple drive is a really good product to boost the product lineup. Have not had a look at it so far though.
I have 4 Hitachi Hard Drives and they ALL failed me!
I even made sure to keep it far away from magnets, etc.. still.. they failed.. the 2.5 and 3.5
Hitachichi.