The 1TB Hard Disk
OpinionWire Articles
Sue Clarke - Published 08/02/2007
At the beginning of January 2007, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced that it had developed what it claims to be the first 1TB hard drive for the home market. The Deskstar 7K1000 provides a high capacity storage drive for games, photos, music, and home movies. HDS has increased the capacity by using perpendicular magnetic recording, rather than longitudinal. A spokesman describes the perpendicular technology as “recording the bits standing up” – in the past they have been laid across the disks. It is al…
